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Phenix1050 wrote:
A more recent attempt at this samephenomenon can be seen as some Americans decided that French Fries (chips to the folks in the UK) needed to be named "Freedom Fries" as they wanted to boycott French things.
Eufack wrote:
after this happened, I quickly heard the french renamed "American cheese" to "Idoit cheese"
I'm pretty sure that's what the french call cheese from any other country....
j/k.
actually been through France a couple of times, only met 2 or 3 people who were overly snotty, most were pretty friendly. Most Friendly Europeans award (of those places I've been to) is a tie between Ireland and Austria. Was in Ireland on St. Patty's day, had like 10 people buy me a drink just because I was an American. In Austria I met some very friendly young people...long story short, I wound up on a table singing Austrian folk songs.
/check forum
yeah this is the ranger forum.....but we are talking about cheese, snow plowmen, and some other stuff.
/ponder
he...wait until we start talking about monkies, absithe and pop-tarts.
or perhaps we should talk about a hat....
or...um....well pretty much everything goes here.
Owen-Lars wrote:
Ive just seen a ghost
CuchulainnDarklight wrote:One too many sherbets my friend!
In my experience there's no such thing as a sure bet.
Phenix1050 wrote:
'cause Americans had to rename Frankfurters during one of the World Wars so there weren't any Germanic names. Hamburgers survived however. A more recent attempt at this same phenomenon can be seen as some Americans decided that French Fries (chips to the folks in the UK) needed to be named "Freedom Fries" as they wanted to boycott French things. Meh. I believe it was noted that these frankfurters looked awfully like Schnausers (a german dog) and the name was decided upon.Message Edited by Phenix1050 on 07-23-2005 08:24 PM
I'm late to this post, but i have a funy story about this. Was moving from Columbus ohio to Denver CO and stopped in a Gas station bathroom in the middle of the night, and saw one of those vending machines in dirty gas station bathrooms, and saw the "freedom tickler"
Nothing funnier than thinking to yourself at 2AM on a cross-country drive "what the hell is a free... they really renamed that?"
Message Edited by linusboarder on 07-23-2005 11:07 PM
Circe' Pojia
Phenix1050 wrote:
'cause Americans had to rename Frankfurters during one of the World Wars so there weren't any Germanic names. Hamburgers survived however. A more recent attempt at this same phenomenon can be seen as some Americans decided that French Fries (chips to the folks in the UK) needed to be named "Freedom Fries" as they wanted to boycott French things. Meh. I believe it was noted that these frankfurters looked awfully like Schnausers (a german dog) and the name was decided upon.Message Edited by Phenix1050 on 07-23-2005 08:24 PM
Actually, French Fries wasn't the original name either. They were originally called "German Fries", but it was changed during World War I and it apparently stuck.
Even though we've careened off-topic from the original post, I have to know: what ghost are you talking about? or am I missing something..
Maybe he saw NRaas online!
Ranger_Nizzle wrote:
Even though we've careened off-topic from the original post, I have to know: what ghost are you talking about? or am I missing something..
Maybe he saw NRaas online!
2 things that have always baffled me ...
1. Why, when administering a lethal injection do they steralize the needle? i mean it's not as if getting a blood infection or aids or something is really gonna make matters worse is it?
2. Why does Sour Cream have an expiration date? i mean it's cream that's gone bad anyway why oh why?