# "Freedom Fries?" Give me a fucking break! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644 "2003-03-11T20:18:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/121 "2003-03-15T03:21:10Z")
Taking my own advice, I give you the cite for the new information about the origins of the term “hot dog.” [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhotdog.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhotdog.html) If I really wanted to be snotty, I could point out that a search of the archives would have produced the correct information, but I won’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/122 "2003-03-15T03:57:43Z")
Because that would be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/123 "2003-03-15T04:03:57Z")
I’m on the Atkin’s Diet. I can’t have any kind of fries or toast. This just sucks folks. French or Freedom it’s just not in the diet. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/124 "2003-03-15T04:09:48Z")
The French invented oral sex. We should be grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/125 "2003-03-15T04:20:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\*The French invented oral sex. We should be grateful. \*\* Ummm. Cite…or better yet, pictures? ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/126 "2003-03-15T21:09:03Z")
OK guys. Get off my arse. I was actually having more fun typing the thing, than worring about how’d you respond. The beating for outdated information is properly taken. But since this is The Pit, What the hell… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/127 "2003-03-16T02:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > matt, ferchrissakes relax already. Sorry, didn’t see your toe. In another light, as a translator I can say that the OLF does serve one very important function: [terminology](http://www.granddictionnaire.com). I’d be lost without them. ---
**Author:** ![Blueberry\_Buckle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@Blueberry\_Buckle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueberry_Buckle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644/128 "2003-03-16T05:17:04Z")
Apparently I’ve been hiding under my rock. I work part-time at a snack bar in a bowling alley. I was at work this afternoon and some dumbass demanded I get a chair, and climb up to the menu hanging on the wall, and change the “french fries” to “freedom fries”. He then told me it was a new law, blah blah blah. After I told him no (and I had never heard of this), he began yelling at me, telling me how unpatriotic I was, I should just move to France, and many other ridiculous comments. What a putz. I’ve never had someone’s ignorance piss me off before. The only thing I could do was laugh and childishly stick my tongue out at him when they booted his ass out the door for continuously harassing me about the damn fries. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-fries-give-me-a-fucking-break/160644.md?page=6)