Freedom fries

our town hall.

They're not getting royalties off French fries.

Ever since we named them Freedom Fries, we've cut them slap off.

That didn't stick, man.

That was a bad effort by whoever did that.

When was this? This was 2004, 2005.

Remember the Freedom Fries thing? Yeah.

Where Congress renamed Freedom Fries.

And the whole country – moved away from calling them french fries like we still know that phrase you go to mcdonald's they're not french fries they're they didn't switch all the way to freedom fries they just call them fries now we dropped the word french from the french fries and that was in the early 2000s and things have only soured since then

uh This was actually commented on in the New York Times by Glynis McNichol.

The French fantasy that Paris offered as an escape from the world's problems is coming to an end because you can't go to Paris anymore to get away from...

That is wild.

That's worse than Freedom Fries, I think.

But Liberty Cabbage for sauerkraut is crazy.

And it's almost, you know, too good to stop eating.

Real

fucking Freedom Fries moment.

Gee, I guess Tim Sweeney is an enemy of the U.S. government.

They all keep doing

I love that.

The Freedom Fries is what they call them?

Mm, Freedom Fries.

Yeah.

Freedom Fries.

Jesus.

Yeah.

But I think basically it's like, I do have weirdly strong memories of two things in particular, I guess, culturally that I always found really funny.

Freedom fries was the number one thing because I remember basically France when the Iraq war happened or there was the Iraq war in 2003, which was actually, again, another war that we kind of fell into because they had weapons of mass destruction.

which were obviously fake in the end they didn't actually have these weapons of mass destruction but we said Saddam Hussein had these weapons of mass destruction and because there was such a massive kind of already fever pitch anti kind of Middle Eastern sentiment in the air after 9-11 we were like fuck it yeah of course we're going to do that war why wouldn't we even though there was like a million strong march in London about it protesting it like again that was another thing where it's a bit like That was another big moment in which the general sentiment was incredibly against it, and yet the government just ignored it, which is the kind of thing that didn't used to really happen, now just kind of happens all the time.

The idea that the government's completely unaccountable.

They just said, hey, we're not going to join the war this time.

We'll probably be there for the next one.

They basically stopped... serving french fries they actually changed the name french fries to freedom fries they actually did this they actually did this across america in like mcdonald's and all this kind of shit eventually people were like this is kind of insane like why are we doing this um but it's just a really funny concept to kind of i guess explain how hysterical that thing was where even of countries saying we don't want to join in the war we're not even saying hey we're not like They're just saying we don't want to get involved.

And they're still being like, right, fuck it.

in the, uh, at home in Ma- in Melrose, Massachusetts, and it was the very first marshmallow cream that you could get, and so it became kinda popular.

But during World War I, Americans were encouraged to abstain from eating meat one day a week to show support for the troops, and so one of the inventors of Snowflake Marshmallow Cream invented the Liberty sandwich, which was the Fluffernutter.

Oh, that's fun.

So the idea probably being like, "Well, if you can't eat meat, we'll just, uh, give you this delicious sweet treat."

Yeah.

What is the...

I'm, uh, very interested in when they call something a Liberty sandwich or Liberty fries or Liberty slaw.

Mm-hmm.

I mean,

this is just Freedom Fries all over again.

Or it's just like, what the fuck are we talking about here?

I mean, the tolerance Republican voters have for what their leaders do is absolutely amazing.