There has already been several threads about renaming terms and items that have any French influence. Lets just gather them all up with your take on theire substitution. French Fries —> Freedom Fries or American Fries
Yeah, this whole thing was sort-of amusing when some self-promoting diner owner in North Carolina or whatever started serving “freedom fries.”
But the whole thing got old pretty quickly.
And now that a Congressional Committee has directed the cafeterias on Capitol Hill to do the same thing, it’s lost whatever hokey redneck charm it once had and has just become another laughable example of a particular type of narrow-minded American parochialism.
Saddam Hussein announced today that all menus and labels in Iraq must abandon the term “American Cheese”. Henceforth, it shall be referred to as “Tyranny Cheese.”