This is old news but just too good to leave out. It was a year and a half
after the World Trade Center got hit and we were trying to get a U.N. vote
to attack Iraq. Most of the nations of the world disagreed with us but
not having France on our side really pissed us off.
Can you tell me why?
Anyway, France was bad and we didn't want anything from there anymore. If you were in Washington D.C. and you went to lunch at the House Office Building you couldn't buy french fries. Instead they had "freedom fries".
You can read about it in this CBS news story from March 11, 2003.
When I heard about it, I told my father and he said that during World War I when Germany was bad, you couldn't buy a hamburger. It was called a "liberty steak". I guess we showed them not to mess with us.
Here
is another article that mentions them both.
