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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Oh Ryan! Just doesn't seem fair to me fella. I find others here far more offensive than you have ever been. It must be all perception and subjectivity. It's really unfortunate whatever the reason. Because I can't understand it. Just know who's gonna be turning into a meglomaniac right about now! Ah well head down till you get back fella!!
    Gonna miss you heaps! :(

    You take it easy ok? I'll be thinking of you. :)
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    yes i am. i've been to resturants which offered french fries or american fries. the difference being the french fries were peeled.

    i have never in my entire life heard of any such distinction. the first, last, and ONLY time in my entire life i've ever even heard of a freedom fry was when congress named their french fries that.

    1) was this after 9/11 and/or iraq?
    2) you say "american fries" are on menus around the country but used it interchangeably with freedom fries before... were you trying to legitimize a ridiculous concept (freedom fries) before by trying to make it seem like it was a real thing (american fries)?
    3) have you ever ordered a freedom fry in a restaurant?
    4) did freedom fries exist prior to congress's order after the french balked at the iraq invasion?
    5) even so, didnt the freedom fries on capitol hill used to be called french fries, which would imply the american fries, while a separate entity from french fries, are NOT freedom fries?
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,010
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    when i heard they were called freedom fries, i thought welp my country has just gone to hell

    i forgot who said it but it was funny at the time...."i like my freedom fries covered with melted idiot cheese"....it was a comedian but i can not thinnk of which one. it was in 2003 or '04. maybe it was letterman or jon stewart.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    onelongsong wrote:
    as i understand it; french fries are peeled; american fries or freedom fries have the skin on.

    We call those homefries. Or at least I do.
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  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    soulsinging wrote:
    i have never in my entire life heard of any such distinction. the first, last, and ONLY time in my entire life i've ever even heard of a freedom fry was when congress named their french fries that.

    1) was this after 9/11 and/or iraq?
    2) you say "american fries" are on menus around the country but used it interchangeably with freedom fries before... were you trying to legitimize a ridiculous concept (freedom fries) before by trying to make it seem like it was a real thing (american fries)?
    3) have you ever ordered a freedom fry in a restaurant?
    4) did freedom fries exist prior to congress's order after the french balked at the iraq invasion?
    5) even so, didnt the freedom fries on capitol hill used to be called french fries, which would imply the american fries, while a separate entity from french fries, are NOT freedom fries?

    first; i think that someone that needs to argue about fries needs to get a life.
    i was learning french many years back and the teacher was insulted that they WERE called french fries. he said "the french don't make fries".
    the first time i was in a resturant and asked if i wanted french or american fries was in 1974; a week after getting my license at a place on milwaukee road in wheeling illinois. that's where i was told the difference. i remember clearly because that was our hang out after that until i was out of high school. i also remember my first date when i was asked by a waiter if i wanted french fries or steak fries. the difference is steak fries are cut much thicker and are rectangular. i've seen them called freedom fries at a stand at the lake county (IL) fair. every year they were freedom fries. i distinctly remember this because i asked the guy if they're called freedom fries because he doesn't have to peel them. he got pissed and refused service to me. i attended the lake county fair from 1979 to 1988.
    any other questions?
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    This thread is dumb.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    soulsinging wrote:
    i have never in my entire life heard of any such distinction. the first, last, and ONLY time in my entire life i've ever even heard of a freedom fry was when congress named their french fries that.

    1) was this after 9/11 and/or iraq?
    2) you say "american fries" are on menus around the country but used it interchangeably with freedom fries before... were you trying to legitimize a ridiculous concept (freedom fries) before by trying to make it seem like it was a real thing (american fries)?
    3) have you ever ordered a freedom fry in a restaurant?
    4) did freedom fries exist prior to congress's order after the french balked at the iraq invasion?
    5) even so, didnt the freedom fries on capitol hill used to be called french fries, which would imply the american fries, while a separate entity from french fries, are NOT freedom fries?

    You can't be serious ss? :D
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    gue_barium wrote:
    This thread is dumb.

    That's probably true.

    I think you have me this time gue.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Ahnimus wrote:
    We call those homefries. Or at least I do.

    Yeah, here in Oz they're called cottage fries. :)
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i forgot who said it but it was funny at the time...."i like my freedom fries covered with melted idiot cheese"....it was a comedian but i can not thinnk of which one. it was in 2003 or '04. maybe it was letterman or jon stewart.
    probably stewart, letterman is to stupid say something that good
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    probably stewart, lettterman is to stupid say something that good
    I sssupppose you, 2, could be
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  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    gue_barium wrote:
    This thread is dumb.

    i think your wrong. the thread was to say good bye to a friend. someone turned the thread dumb talking about bloody potatoes. or is it potatoes? who cares what some people call their potatoes? their called different things all over the world. just eat the bloody thing. it doesn't need a name anyway. you're not going to call it.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, here in Oz they're called cottage fries. :)

    That's interesting.

    I always found the American spirit to be rather fascinating. But scary at the same time. I should post a disclaimer every time I talk about America; THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE ANTI-AMERICAN. Just to clarify. We don't have Canadian Fries anywhere in Canada. Well, not that I know of. As I'm sure you don't in Australia either. For whatever reason though, in America you have American Fries. The nationalism is just incredible. Freedom Fries. But not only that, many many things are prefixed American. It's All American. It's amazing. Fascinating.

    Even in Canada. I know an American household when I see it. They hang Canadian and American flags. I don't personally know any Canadians that hang flags. I'm pretty sure the majority of flag-hangers are from other countries. See a lot of Brazilian and Italian flags and stuff too. You only really see the Canadian flag at schools, courthouses and parliament buildings. My dad used to have a small Canadian flag on his house, but he couldn't be bothered with it, so he took it down.

    But it's not that Canadians aren't proud of their country. I think it's just, we don't go out of our way to prove it. We don't have this mindset that we need to "support our country". All of that troops supporting and political sides crap doesn't really exist here in the same magnitude. We don't have the media like the USA either though. Most of what I see if I watch TV is American. So, I think the media has a way of changing people. I think it's a sort of propaganda and I think some organizations, like CNN or FOX, operate as a political entity. I'm afraid when the nationalism and propaganda are combined, you get a really dangerous mixture.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    first; i think that someone that needs to argue about fries needs to get a life.
    i was learning french many years back and the teacher was insulted that they WERE called french fries. he said "the french don't make fries".
    the first time i was in a resturant and asked if i wanted french or american fries was in 1974; a week after getting my license at a place on milwaukee road in wheeling illinois. that's where i was told the difference. i remember clearly because that was our hang out after that until i was out of high school. i also remember my first date when i was asked by a waiter if i wanted french fries or steak fries. the difference is steak fries are cut much thicker and are rectangular. i've seen them called freedom fries at a stand at the lake county (IL) fair. every year they were freedom fries. i distinctly remember this because i asked the guy if they're called freedom fries because he doesn't have to peel them. he got pissed and refused service to me. i attended the lake county fair from 1979 to 1988.
    any other questions?

    im not arguing, im curious. this is all news to me. i was under the impression they were all called french fries and congress made up the name freedom fries and started calling their french fries that as some sort of junior high finger to the french for not backing us in iraq and to whip up patriotic fervor. i didnt know there was any underlying logic to the name choices.

    then again, it's still as stupid and juvenille as i thought originally i suppose.
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    soulsinging wrote:
    im not arguing, im curious. this is all news to me. i was under the impression they were all called french fries and congress made up the name freedom fries and started calling their french fries that as some sort of junior high finger to the french for not backing us in iraq and to whip up patriotic fervor. i didnt know there was any underlying logic to the name choices.

    then again, it's still as stupid and juvenille as i thought originally i suppose.

    i just thought someone grew up calling them freedom fries and ended up in congress. others thought it was original and that's what they called them. like the first time you heard the word dude. all of a sudden every one was saying dude.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    ...... lettterman is to stupid say something that good

    Phew! So good to hear someone else thinks so mets!! I simply cannot understand why we have to suffer him here on Oz tv and his only saving grace is PJ is often on. Although you gotta sit up all bloody night and watch the whole show just to make sure you press record at the right time!! :eek:
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    soulsinging wrote:
    im not arguing, im curious. this is all news to me. i was under the impression they were all called french fries and congress made up the name freedom fries and started calling their french fries that as some sort of junior high finger to the french for not backing us in iraq and to whip up patriotic fervor. i didnt know there was any underlying logic to the name choices.

    then again, it's still as stupid and juvenille as i thought originally i suppose.


    SS there was a big bruhaha here in Oz about them being called Freedom Fries a few years ago now. I think it was when the French were nuclear testing in the pacific. We stopped calling them French Fries then in protest and began calling them Freedom Fries. French fries are actually called pomme frits in France anyway aren't they? :)
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    i just thought someone grew up calling them freedom fries and ended up in congress. others thought it was original and that's what they called them. like the first time you heard the word dude. all of a sudden every one was saying dude.

    it might have been a combination of both. but i do recall that shortly after france said firmly there was no way they'd support action in iraq, congress immediately passed a resolution altering the name of french fries to freedom fries in the capitol building cafeteria. it was, to me, the most colossally stupid and immature thing i've ever heard of the us government doing.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Jeanie wrote:
    SS there was a big bruhaha here in Oz about them being called Freedom Fries a few years ago now. I think it was when the French were nuclear testing in the pacific. We stopped calling them French Fries then in protest and began calling them Freedom Fries. French fries are actually called pomme frits in France anyway aren't they? :)

    no clue. why would i care what the french call anything? ;)
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    onelongsong wrote:
    i think your wrong. the thread was to say good bye to a friend. someone turned the thread dumb talking about bloody potatoes. or is it potatoes? who cares what some people call their potatoes? their called different things all over the world. just eat the bloody thing. it doesn't need a name anyway. you're not going to call it.

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