Freedom Fries
Asked about this bold new potato-naming policy, a puzzled French diplomat said: "French fries did not originate in France, they came from Belgium."1
Jake has a rant about American media gone mad, and about the excessive behaviour that the current wave of jingoism seems to have inspired. Less amusing than the fries, is the story about the Florida Congresswoman who has suggested that the US government help families to bring back from France the bodies of American service men buried there after WWII.....
This was previously published at http://blog.sockdrawer.org and was retrieved from the Internet Archive.