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  • French fry ban targets wrong country (no, it doesn't)

    03/12/2003 2:07:13 PM PST · by knighthawk · 31 replies · 576+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | March 12 2003 | Reuters
    PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress picked on the wrong country when it replaced "French fries" with "Freedom fries" on its menus to protest France's opposition to a possible U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a Belgian fry expert. Michel Mes, who runs the website www.belgianfries.com, said that fried potatoes were invented in Belgium, not France, and were only referred to as French fries in the United States. "Of course, in good food tradition, the French claim to be the inventors of our beloved fries," he writes on the website. "Anyway, we modest Belgians don't mind the French claim, because...