Posted on 10/10/2005 5:28:05 PM PDT by lowbridge
Sacre Cordon Bleu! What Would Jesus Bet? Sunday, October 09, 2005 By Scott Norvell
AFP reports that the Subway sandwich shop chain has apologized for an ad campaign poking fun at French cowardice after some Francophiles in America complained that it was disrespectful.
The ad featured a cordon bleu chicken sandwich with the words, "France and chicken, somehow it just goes together." A photo of a chicken dressed like Napoleon accompanied the advertisement.
A spokesman for Subway said the campaign was meant to champion French cuisine. The ads were removed once company execs realized that people were offended, he said.
"Saying that the French are dirty or cowards is a little bit like saying the sky is blue. Nobody is going to contest it," Denis Chazelle, a long-time French resident of the Washington area, told AFP. "I think (French bashing) is worse now than it was two years ago because, although it's not as relentless as it was, it has become a lot more accepted and part of the landscape."
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The French are such an easy target...
LOL... It sounds like written by a Freeper...
LOL!!
Exactly.
Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
"France and chicken, somehow it just goes together."
The best oneliner I've heard lately.
I just have to determine which smells better, the cheese, the frog or the French.
Good thing they pulled that ad. Napoleon was not French. He was Corsican!
Not the French, either the cheese or the frog ...
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LOL! I'm going to go to Subway more often now. Sort of like a reverse boycott!
Definitely the cheese. I would eat cheese.
"Subway Receives French Undressing"
Well, just to be safe, I will stick to cheese.
"Definitely the cheese. I would eat cheese."
The frog?
I have a new tagline.
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