Remember Freedom Fries?

[erik_kosberg]

Those wacky folks in the Congressional cafeteria did nothing new. From The Heo's Journey, Joseph Campbell describing his time (1919-1921) at a prep school in Connecticut:

Of course we had to take languages, and back in those years after World War I we still weren't allowed to study German, we had to study Spanish and French. (I couldn't even have German Measles--I had Liberty Measles!)

[drmomentum[$]]

Wasn't there Liberty Cabbage as well?

Yes: http://www.foodreference.com/html/flibertycabbage.html

Hey' I'd never heard of Libery Measles before. That's even more silly! Why not blame your measles on the enemy?

[erik_kosberg]

And why didn't we blame those fatty fries on the French? Those French guys caused uncle Billy Bob's heart attack!

[drmomentum[$]]

As my daughter explained to me the other day, they're really Belgian.

Shrug.

I have given up trying to explain to her much of what adults do. I let her explain things to me.

-JP