No More French Fries

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#21 Postby streetsoldier » Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:49 pm

This ain't the first time this has been done here...

Try to remember high school World History...let your hearts and minds wander back to days of pimples, raging hormones, hidden magazines :wink: and being chased around by faculty with rulers to check the proper length of skirt hems... and hear the droning of the teacher again, as in a bad dream..."Now, in World War I, Americans took 'sauerkraut' labels off the jars, and renamed it 'Victory Cabbage'..."(yawn)

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#22 Postby Rob-TheStormChaser » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:17 pm

I had 'fries' from BK earlier today....but I simply just say I wanted an order of 'King Fries' with my Whopper! lol No French involved.....hmmm french dressing and french's mustard...rutrow!
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#23 Postby OtherHD » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:20 pm

streetsoldier wrote:This ain't the first time this has been done here...

Try to remember high school World History...let your hearts and minds wander back to days of pimples, raging hormones, hidden magazines :wink: and being chased around by faculty with rulers to check the proper length of skirt hems... and hear the droning of the teacher again, as in a bad dream


Hmmmmm for me, that was last year lol. :lol:

And come to think of it, I think I did hear about changing sauerkraut to victory cabbage. Sort of a double meaning if you ask me: One one hand, it is showing off our patriotism. On the other hand, if you are actually able to EAT the stuff, you have won a big victory.
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#24 Postby Rainband » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:26 pm

It's symbolic, I still think :wink:
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#25 Postby coriolis » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:50 pm

Let the french and germans do what they want. They're grown ups. History will tell who was right and wrong. I feel that those countries are pretty much irrelevant anyway. The french have their pride of past glories and have an inflated ego. Germany still has not gotten over over all the wars that they started and lost. They are probably afraid of war at this point. We should do what we need to do - period. I think it is important that we at least appear to consult with other world leaders and show restraint. Remember that restraint is a virtue of the powerful. We shouldn't be running off half cocked. At this time, I'd say that we have shown restraint, we have saluted the UN and if it's time to roll, then so be it.
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#26 Postby Stormsfury » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:08 pm

For obvious reasons, I haven't been able to spend much time in off-topic.
Interesting convo over here ...

For some reason, I've always called them 'Fries' ...
I guess our Patroitism for our country is again at an all-time high showing just how united we are after all.

(See the Philadelphia Funeral Home advertisement, RobTheStormChaser submitted!...)

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#27 Postby Rob-TheStormChaser » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:10 pm

lol Mike....yeah I just call em fries too....we have a knack for making things much more simple minded!
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#28 Postby Stormsfury » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:14 pm

Rob-TheStormChaser wrote:lol Mike....yeah I just call em fries too....we have a knack for making things much more simple minded!


That's the way it should be! :D
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#29 Postby HoumaLa » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:36 am

In answer to how they were named
But they weren't French fries until 1918 or so. American soldiers stationed in France gobbled up fried potatoes. They dubbed them "French fries" and liked them so much they wanted to have them at home, too. Americans still love French fries. Last year alone, more than 4.5 billion pounds of them were sold in the United States.
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#30 Postby 2 Seam Fastball » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:41 am

I like french fries. Didn't they come from New Orleans? Being a french territory once? I dig wendeys fries the best.
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