# "Freedom Fries" for the Fatherland

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-for-the-fatherland/156274>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 20, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-for-the-fatherland/156274 "2003-02-20T05:19:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-for-the-fatherland/156274/61 "2003-02-21T01:14:44Z")

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This is kind of silly, and so are the people calling it jingoistic, but it’s no big deal. But I think that we replace “going to the john” with “going to see a Frenchman about a horse.”

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> \*Originally posted by hazel-rah \*  
> “Freedom Fries” is PC crap.

I’ll go out on a limb and assume you’re serious. No, this is the exact opposite of PC because the substitution is intended to show contempt (regardless of whether the French care). PC is intended to eliminate offense. You might as well say “Dubya” and “Slick Willie” are PC.

For real live PC at its absolutely silliest, see the following.

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> \*Originally posted by Apos \*  
> I’ll say it once. It’s flat out racist. There’s simply no other description for it. The people hurt by economic dropoff may or may not have any opinion on the war at all, or any control over their government’s position.

I’ll say it once. That’s flat out one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read. And France is a democracy. At the moment. Can’t say what’ll happen if the EU is ever completely implemented. And by the way: 😛

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> \*Originally posted by 2trew \*  
> Sigh. Where’s the craftsmanship? Where’s the historical perspective? Where’s the love of the grotesque and the feeling of superiority, combined with a pop culture reference?
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> I suggest an alternate header. It’s offensive, it’s on point, it’s stolen from National Lampoon: “Arbies Macht Fries”.

Pretty offensive, but the bilingual pun is wonderful!

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