# French Products **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547 "2003-03-23T12:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/1 "2003-03-23T12:29:02Z")
Some French products\companies Michelin/BF Goodrich Allegra Bic (lighters,razors, pens) Biotherm Car & Driver Magazine Chivas Regal (as a Scot this really pisses me off) Club Med ---
**Author:** ![lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/2 "2003-03-23T12:33:16Z")
here’s more (I’m really pissed) Culligan (home water filtration widely found in US homes) Dannon (yes the yogurt) DKNY Dom Perignon Elle Magazine ---
**Author:** ![lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/3 "2003-03-23T12:48:03Z")
Evian Hennessy Jameson (as a Scot, it really pisses me off French cowards own this brand) Jerry Springer (French company owns it, 'nuff said) Krups Lancome (cosmetics) L’Oreal Louis Vitton (Lawn and leaf bags do the same job) Marie Claire Maybellie Michellin Motel 6 Motown Records [MP3.com](http://MP3.com) Nissan Parents Mgazine RCA Red Roof Inns Road and Track mag Sierra software( this sucks, cuz I love the games they make, but I won’t play them now) Oh yeah, I can get get them free on IMesh Glenlivet: see Jameson any movie made by universal studios (I bootleg almost all movies so no gult there) Uniroyal tires owned by Michelin yoplait is French, tough is says Dean’s for Reg trademark ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/4 "2003-03-23T12:55:03Z")
You’ll take my Vuittons when you pry them from my dead hands. Incidentally, at another message board I frequent, several of the members have announced their intention to boycott all French products … “except my Vuittons of course! I could never give _those_ up!” Personally I don’t agree with the boycotting thing - but it strikes me as odd that these women are expressing their patriotism by boycotting - as long as they don’t have to give up anything that they _gasp_ _like!_. Sorry 'bout the interruption - carry on. ---
**Author:** ![lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/5 "2003-03-23T13:01:15Z")
Don’t apologize, the great thing about this country is voicing an opposing view. Sadam can’t kill you for it, nor can he or his sons rape you for not aggreeing ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/6 "2003-03-23T13:02:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lite \* > \*\*Don’t apologize, the great thing about this country is voicing an opposing view. Sadam can’t kill you for it, nor can he or his sons rape you for not aggreeing \*\* Nor can Robert Mugabe. Your point is…? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/7 "2003-03-23T13:05:00Z")
Two questions, from someone who is genuinely curious: 1. Exactly what result do you hope to bring about by boycotting French products? 2. By what mechanism will this result occur? ---
**Author:** ![lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/8 "2003-03-23T13:42:03Z")
Mugabe?!? Am i supposed to list all tyrants? As for the French, 2 generations of my family have died liberating them from Germany. Were it not for the USA, the former USSR would have slowly pushed westward and any scholar of military history knows what would have happened. France is terrified of what the US will find in Iraq when we open the files. There are open documents in the UN showing that France has at LEAST $20 Bilion (US Dollars) in contracts for oil producton. (The US has absolutly NO financial interest in Iraqi oil.) France has two reasons to oppose us, one political, one economic. France is first and foremost looking out for its best interests in Iraqi oil. Iraq has received billions from France in contracts, dependant on the lifting of UN sanctons to open the oil fields. US doing this for oil? If you believe that, you’re not looking at the BILLIONS of dollars we have commited to giving the Iraqi people a chance of self rule for the first time since the mid-70’s In closing, albeit a small argument, the world will see soon what a threat Iraq is. I know it’s easy to buy into the “hippie” movements of the early to mid-70’s, a lot of people want to capture the moment of that era, but it is NOT the same. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/9 "2003-03-23T13:44:26Z")
[King of the Hill] Paging Boomhauer … [/King of the Hill] ---
**Author:** ![lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/10 "2003-03-23T13:47:40Z")
Boomhauer ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/11 "2003-03-23T13:50:52Z")
… pieces of eight, pieces of eight … ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/12 "2003-03-23T13:54:59Z")
Thanks for pointing out that _L’Oreal_ and _Elle_ magazine are French. I had no idea. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/13 "2003-03-23T14:16:03Z")
So can I carry on reading _Marie Claire_ then? ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/14 "2003-03-23T14:19:03Z")
Do what you like with her, I’m still ‘reading’ Catherine Deneuve. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/15 "2003-03-23T15:41:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lite \* > **Jameson (as a Scot, it really pisses me off French cowards own this brand)** Would that be [Jameson](http://www.jameson.ie), the **Irish** whiskey? As a half-Scot it really pisses me off when ignoramuses claim to be Scots. Vive l’Auld Alliance I say, and the Entente Cordial too. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/16 "2003-03-23T15:47:12Z")
Disregard my second sentence from the above. For a moment I thought we were in the pit. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/17 "2003-03-23T15:52:08Z")
**lite** , So you don’t like France because it tries to stop the US from bullying a much smaller country. I hope you will take a similar view when some other large country starts to do the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/18 "2003-03-23T15:53:31Z")
I have no idea what the attraction of LV is. Their ware is, let me say, unimpressive. ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/19 "2003-03-23T15:58:48Z")
I won’t boycott US products, but if I ever see Bush or Rumsfeld on the side of the road with a flat tire, I won’t help them out either 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/20 "2003-03-23T16:02:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ticker \* > \*\*Disregard my second sentence from the above. For a moment I thought we were in the pit. Sorry. \*\* I think it’s entirely appropriate: after all you didn’t say _which_ ignoramus was pissing you off… 😉 Anyway, since when has [Jamey’s](http://www.jameson.ie/overview/) been French? And Chivas Brothers Ltd. seems to be based in Scotland, too. Is there some kind of French conglomerate owning them? Not that I care really. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547.md?page=2)