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== Freedom Fries ==

== Freedom Fries ==

Near the start of the [[Iraq War]] in 2003, a wave of anti-French sentiment briefly swept the United States over France's opposition to the U.S.-led coalition. As a protest, for a while the Congressional cafeteria refused to use the name "French fries," serving them under the substitute name "[[Freedom fries]]."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80700,00.html</ref><ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html</ref>  

Near the start of the [[Iraq War]] in 2003, a wave of anti-French sentiment briefly swept the United States over France's opposition to the U.S.-led coalition. As a protest, for a while the Congressional cafeteria refused to use the name "French fries," serving them under the substitute name "[[Freedom fries]]."<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80700,00.html</ref><ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html</ref>  

Representatives [[Bob Ney]] (R-OH) and [[Walter B. Jones]] (R-NC) were responsible for declaring that all references to "French" in the United States House of Representatives' restaurants and snack bars be removed.  Said Ney after personally changing the signs in the House cafeteria, ''Once again, our brave men and women in the American military are putting their lives on the line to ensure the freedom and security of others, and once again, [[France]] is sitting on the sidelines.''  At the time, however, French forces were among the coalition troops fighting the [[Taliban]] in [[Afghanistan]]. Also notably, French fries are only french fries, because of the way they are prepared; frenching.<ref>http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term/t--35683/frenched.asp</ref>

Representatives [[Bob Ney]] (R-OH) and [[Walter B. Jones]] (R-NC) were responsible for declaring that all references to "French" in the United States House of Representatives' restaurants and snack bars be removed.  Said Ney after personally changing the signs in the House cafeteria, ''Once again, our brave men and women in the American military are putting their lives on the line to ensure the freedom and security of others, and once again, [[France]] is sitting on the sidelines.''  At the time, however, French forces were among the coalition troops fighting the [[Taliban]] in [[Afghanistan]]. Also notably, French fries are only french fries, because of the way they are prepared; frenching.<ref>http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term/t--35683/frenched.asp</ref>