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"Freedom fries" was a name used by some in the United States for French fries, as a result of anti-French sentiment in the United States during the international debate over the decision to launch the 2003 invasion of Iraq. France expressed strong opposition in the United Nations to taking such action. The French position was frowned upon by many in the United States, leading to campaigns for the boycotting of French goods and businesses and the removal of the country's name from products. Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... French fries (North America; sometimes not capitalized[1]), chips (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and many Commonwealth nations), fries,[2] or French-fried potatoes (formal) are pieces of potato that have been deep-fried. ... For general Anti-French hostility, see Francophobia. ... This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... UN redirects here. ...

The Congressional renaming

Menu from a House of Representatives cafeteria featuring Freedom Fries

On 11 March 2003, Representatives Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-North Carolina) declared that all references to French fries and French toast on the menus of the restaurants and snack bars run by the House of Representatives would be removed. House cafeterias were ordered to rename French fries "freedom fries". This action was carried out without a congressional vote, under the authority of Ney's position as Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, which oversees restaurant operations for the chamber. The simultaneous renaming of French toast to "freedom toast" attracted less attention.^[1] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 461 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 461 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party... Robert William Bob Ney (born July 5, 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. ... GOP redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Walter Beaman Jones, Jr. ... Official language(s) English Demonym North Carolinian Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Largest metro area Charlotte metro area Area  Ranked 28th in the US  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (340 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (900 km)  - % water 9. ... For the band, see French Toast (band) French toast serving French toast (often known as eggy bread in most of the UK - the exception being Scotland, pain perdu in French, pain doré in French-speaking parts of Canada) is a popular breakfast food in North America and Europe. ... For the band, see French Toast (band) French toast serving French toast (often known as eggy bread in most of the UK - the exception being Scotland, pain perdu in French, pain doré in French-speaking parts of Canada) is a popular breakfast food in North America and Europe. ...

According to a statement released by Ney, this move was a symbolic effort to express displeasure with France's "continued refusal to stand with their U.S. allies" (see Iraq disarmament crisis). The statement further read: "This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure many on Capitol Hill have with our so-called ally, France." This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Map of Washington, D.C., with Capitol Hill highlighted in red Capitol Hill, aside from being the common nickname for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly behind the U.S. Capitol along wide avenues. ...

This sentiment was communicated through the Internet, chain e-mails, and frequent references on 24-hour news coverage from networks such as CNN and Fox News. The move was internationally satirized.^[2] The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ...

The French embassy made no comment beyond pointing out that French fries probably come from Belgium. "We are at a very serious moment dealing with very serious issues and we are not focusing on the name you give to potatoes," said Nathalie Loisau, an embassy spokeswoman. Critics also asserted that "French Fries" were called such because they are "frenched", or thinly sliced,^[3] although this might be a false etymology; the first American reference to French fries was made by Thomas Jefferson, who referred to them as "potatoes, fried in the French Manner".^[4] A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ... French fries (North America; sometimes not capitalized[1]), chips (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and many Commonwealth nations), fries,[2] or French-fried potatoes (formal) are pieces of potato that have been deep-fried. ... Belgium is a nation of Gourmands rather than Gourmets which translates into big cuisine rather than fine cuisine. ... For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... A false etymology is an assumed or postulated etymology which is incorrect from the perspective of modern scholarly work in historical linguistics. ... Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ...

Congressmen Ney and Jones, however, were not the first to rename French fries to "freedom fries". A number of private restaurants across the country started the renaming movement. Neal Rowland, owner of the privately owned fast-food restaurant Cubbie's in Beaufort, North Carolina, began the movement by selling his fried potato strips under the name "freedom fries". Rowland claimed that his intent was not to slight the French people, but rather to be "patriotic and supportive of President George W. Bush" after hearing the news of the French opposition on February 19, 2003. He explained that the name change came to mind after a conversation with a history teacher about World War I, during which anti-German sentiment prompted Americans to rename German foods.^[5] Sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage", dachshunds (wiener dogs) renamed "liberty pups", frankfurters renamed "hot dogs" (a name that has stuck), and hamburgers renamed "liberty steaks" or "Salisbury steaks" (which is also still used in places.)^[6] Many of Rowland's customers are local military troops. In March 2007, Rowland obtained a U.S. trademark registration for the mark "freedom fries".^[7] The name change is still used by some restaurants, such as Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia.^[8] Beaufort (pronounced BO-furt / IPA: ) is a town that everybody loves in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. ... For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Anti-German sentiment should not be confused with Anti-Germans (communist current), also called Anti-German. ... Sauerkraut and sausage on a plate Pickled Eisbein, served with Sauerkraut Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Liberty cabbage is a bowdlerization of the word sauerkraut. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... This article is about the food item. ... A TV Dinner of salisbury steak and macaroni and cheese Salisbury steak or Hamburger steak is minced beef shaped to resemble a steak and usually served in brown sauce. ... “(TM)” redirects here. ... Daytime shot of Genos The signs on the front window Genos at night Genos Steaks is a Philadelphia restaurant specializing in cheesesteaks, founded in 1966 by Joe Vento. ...

Reckitt Benckiser, makers of French's mustard, was sufficiently concerned to clarify that their brand name was derived from a family name, and to issue a press release affirming its patriotism. ^[9][10] Reckitt Benckiser plc is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of cleaning products, and a member of the FTSE 100 Index of the largest companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. ... For other uses, see Mustard. ...

In May 2005, Representative Jones, having arrived at the belief that the United States went to war "with no justification", said of the "freedom fries" episode: "I wish it had never happened."^[11] By July 2006, the House had changed the name of the two foods in all of its restaurants back to "French fries" and "French toast".^[12]

Historical parallels

An early political cartoon lampooning the name change of hamburger meat during World War I

• Canada: During World War I, the Ontario city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener.^[13]

• France: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety went so far as to banish all words associated with royalty. A major example of their work was taking Kings and Queens out of playing cards and replacing them with Committee members. It lasted less than a year. Also, during World War I, coffee with whipped cream, previously known as Café Viennois (Vienna coffee), was renamed Café Liégeois (Coffee from Liège) due to the state of war with Austria-Hungary. This appellation is still in use today, mainly for ice-creams (chocolat liégeois and café liegeois). And a seemingly eternal debate in food history is whether a lobster recipe should be called Homard à l'Américaine or Homard à l'Armoricaine (Armorique being the name given in the past to a wide area from France including Brittany and Normandy). The arguments often appeal to French culinary nationalism.

• Germany: In 1915, after Italy entered World War I, restaurants in Berlin stopped serving Italian salad.

• Greece: "Ellinikos kafes" ("Greek coffee") replaced "Turkikos kafes" ("Turkish coffee") on Greek menus after the Turkish-Greek collisions of the 1920s.

• Iran: During the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, several Iranian groups advocated changing the name of Danish pastry to "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad"^[14][15].

• New Zealand: In 1998, while the French government was testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific, French loaves were renamed Kiwi loaves in a number of supermarkets and bakeries. This, however, does not appear to have been as extensively reported or publicized as anti-French sentiment in the United States. However, French Fries at a few family restaurants were renamed Kiwi fries, or just "Fries", which was already an established term. Most New Zealanders, however, use the British word "chips". The kiwifruit gets its name from a marketing strategy, naming it after the kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand, where the fruit was first commercially popularized in 1959 by the New Zealand fruit-and-vegetable export company Turners and Growers.^[16] It was previously known as the Chinese gooseberry, but due to the Cold War, the Chinese label seemed unfit for popularization of the fruit in Western countries. Also briefly known as a "melonette", growers gradually adopted the Kiwifruit name and in 1974 it was officially renamed.

• Spain: After the triumph of Francisco Franco, filete imperial ("imperial beef") became a euphemism for filete ruso ("Russian beef"), "ensaladilla nacional" ("national salad") for "ensaladilla rusa" ("Russian salad") and Caperucita Encarnada ("Little Red Riding Hood") for Caperucita Roja (which has the same meaning but loses its hypothetical connotations).

• Turkey: Russian salad became American salad because of the anti-Communist sentiment in the country. Similarly, "Constantinople" was officially renamed Istanbul by the Turks in years following a Greek invasion in the 1920s, although the name "Istanbul", originally of Greek origin itself, had been in use since the time of Fatih Sultan Mehmet.

• United Kingdom: During World War I, the German Shepherd was renamed the "Alsatian," and German biscuits were renamed Empire biscuits due to strong anti-German sentiment. Perhaps most famously, in 1917 the name of the royal family was changed by George V to Windsor from the German surname Wettin and house name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

• United States: Food items weren't the only names changed in the United States during World War I. The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog, and the German measles were instead called liberty measles.^[17]

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See also

• Astroturfing
• Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys
• Francophobia
• Jingoism
• Minuteman Salsa
• Old Europe
• Roses of the Prophet Muhammad
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• Victory Gin
• W Ketchup

For the artificial grass, see AstroTurf. ... Cheese-eating surrender monkeys is an insulting phrase, referring to the French, which gained notoriety in the United States, particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq. ... Francophobia is a consistent hostility toward the government, culture, history, or people of France or the Francophonie. ... Ten Thousand Miles From Tip to Tip, an 1898 political cartoon depicting the extension of the United States dominion Jingoism is chauvinistic patriotism, usually associated with a War Hawk political stance. ... Minuteman Salsa is a brand of salsa made in the United States. ... In January 2003 the term Old Europe surfaced after U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used it to refer to European countries that did not support the 2003 invasion of Iraq, most notably France and Germany. ... Roses of the Prophet Muhammad is the name the Iranian confectioners union designated as the new name for Danish pastries made in the country as of February 15, 2006. ... In linguistics, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) states that there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... W Ketchup is a brand of ketchup made in the United States. ...

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External links

• "House restaurants change name of 'french fries' and 'french toast'", CNN.com, March 11, 2003
• Johnny Depp on the Freedom Fries incident, "U.S. is like a stupid puppy", CNN.com, Sept 3, 2003
• "French fries back on House menu", BBC News, 2 August 2006