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Let freedom (and its fries) ring! {Gadling}

Mar 19th 2010 12:24PM Oh excellent, Freedom fries are back, and with them the oh-so-predictable tsunami of anti-French comments. Here are my 2 cents:

- French people will forever be grateful to the young soldiers from the US and elsewhere who fought and/or died to free our country from Nazi Germany. Having said that, this does not mean that we will suffer any american fool (who in most cases has no link whatsoever to those previously mentioned heroes) throwing this at our face every time we do not agree with the US.

- Anti-US sentiment exists in France just as anywhere else, mostly from people whose sole experience of Americans is from news stories. French people who have traveled and met actual Americans will generally have good things to say about them.

- Americans drawing their conclusions about French people after a week-long trip to Paris have no say in the matter. Parisians are rude even to French people, and very arrogant (but then again I am drawing my conclusions about Parisians from a couple of week long trips to Paris...)

- I was very entertained by Gunny's story, particularly the 5 Americans standing up and clapping. Very moving. Was an American flag floating in the background when you were giving your speech to that snob French guy ?

- French President Jacques Chirac has for the most part done a shit job, but if there is one thing that will forever remain as a glowing legacy, it will be his opposition to the war in Iraq.

- Say what you will, but renaming "French fries" to "Freedom fries" was a misinformed, childish move, and the fact that it was pushed by a member of Congress would, quite frankly, scare the hell out of me if I was from the US.

- Food for thoughts: China, among many other countries, also wanted to carry on with the inspection, yet "Chinatowns" were not renamed "FreedomTown" anywhere in the US.