French Fry Ban Targets Wrong Country?
Fortunately, the Belgian government isn't populated with self-absorbed weasels.
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 (news - web sites), according to a Belgian fry expert.
Michel Mes, who runs the Web Site 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 Web Site. "Anyway, we modest Belgians don't mind the French claim, because we know that fries are God's gift to our people."
Here's a suggestion: don't piss us off, because we'll all be eating Freedom Waffles before you'll know what hit you....
