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Lawmaker Wants to Put 'French' Back in Fries
Reuters via Lycos.com ^ | 09/15/2003

Posted on 09/15/2003 12:23:47 PM PDT by GeneD

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To get international help to rebuild Iraq, Congress may have to eat some French fries and French toast, according to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

Saying it is time to put aside differences with France, the Texas Democrat circulated a letter on Monday urging the House of Representatives to put back the word "French" back in fries and toast on House cafeteria and dining hall menus.

Lawmakers ordered them renamed "Freedom" fries and "Freedom" toast last spring, reflecting anger at France for its opposition to the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein as Iraq's president.

But times have changed, Jackson Lee said, and now the Washington is trying to get France and other members of the United Nations to contribute money and troops to help stabilize Iraq and rebuild its devastated infrastructure.

"President Bush is now urging that all parties put aside 'past bickering,"' she said in her letter. "A symbolic start to that effort" would be reinstating foods on the House menus "with their traditional 'American' names -- French toast and French fries."

Rep. Bob Ney, head of the House Administration Committee, ordered the changes in March. The Ohio Republican took the action at the suggestion of Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican.


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To: GeneD
I think Ohio Fries have a nice ring to it.
61 posted on 09/16/2003 5:29:54 PM PDT by aSkeptic (I am a computer chair critic, so please don't get too excited.)
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To: mhking
How about, as a gesture of goodwill, we send Sheila to France as our Ambassador....with the provision that they must keep her there, gagged.......
62 posted on 09/16/2003 5:37:45 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: GeneD
"Saying it is time to put aside differences with France, the Texas Democrat circulated a letter on Monday urging the House of Representatives to put back the word "French" back in fries and toast on House cafeteria and dining hall menus."

OK, I say we do it, if Sheila agrees to rename the cafeteria after that old, extinct American restaurant chain "Sambo's".

63 posted on 09/16/2003 8:54:10 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez ("As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: GeneD
Stupid #*%&^#&(*@(%$*!!!!
64 posted on 09/16/2003 9:05:06 PM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: corsair
I recently ordered a "Freedom Dip" (as opposed to what was actually on the menu) at my local sports bar, and got only a blank stare form my waitress.
65 posted on 09/17/2003 6:45:17 AM PDT by presidio9 (If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell)
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To: GeneD
Well,I can see that Texas is being represented by another moron.
66 posted on 09/17/2003 10:26:32 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: GeneD
Freedom fries till the day I die!
67 posted on 09/17/2003 11:06:02 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: bicycle thug
Call to the EU bureaucrats: here's a chance for the Frenchies to RECLAIM their domain name. (As in, "bologna" can't be used to label baloney unless it's made in Bologna, Italy.)
68 posted on 09/17/2003 11:08:24 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: 1rudeboy
And Johnny Depp thinks we're SOOOO provincial and embarrassing.
69 posted on 09/17/2003 11:09:41 AM PDT by Ciexyz
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