# Finally, the serious business of Congres: !"French" Fries?!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-the-serious-business-of-congres-french-fries/202077>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 17, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-the-serious-business-of-congres-french-fries/202077 "2003-09-17T02:58:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-the-serious-business-of-congres-french-fries/202077/41 "2003-09-18T20:39:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \*  
> \*\*I disagree. This is **exactly** the kind of thing these guys should be doing—dicking around with truly insignificant and poiintless bullshit. Occupies their time and prevents them from doing serious damage to important things. Plus, it doesn’t cost me an additional cent in the way of taxes.
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> Now if we could only get the Supreme Court to consider accepting an appeal on the tomato fruit/vegetable controversy. And perhaps Bush could stick to something even more pointless, like golf. \*\*

Well said beer. Our last time of great prosperity happened when the government kept getting shut down because it could not agree on what to do.

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**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-the-serious-business-of-congres-french-fries/202077/42 "2003-09-18T20:45:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by soup\_diggity \*  
> \*\*Am I the only one who sees the distgusting insensitivity our Congress showed by doing this? What about the thousands of Franco-Americans living in the US? What message does that send to them? \*\*

I’m sure they’ll forget about it if we give them some SpaghettiOs and a big Belgian kiss.😃

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-the-serious-business-of-congres-french-fries/202077/43 "2003-09-18T21:44:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \*  
> \*\*Nothing natural about it.  
> Why not just spray them with Cool Whip and be done with it? \*\*

Mmmmm…Cool Whip…It would probably be better than that ghastly ketchup with curry that they also have. Actually, ketchup of any kind is disgusting.

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