From one of my mailing lists

[figmo]

Re: "Freedom Fries"

Person 1: But there's a tradition behind it. Does "Liberty Cabbage" [in lieu of sauerkraut] ring a bell?

Person 2: Also the ever popular "Liberty Measles."

Me: I think I'll have some "Liberty Pancakes" for breakfast with some "Freedom Roast" coffee with "Freedom Vanilla" sugar-free Torani syrup in it.

Comments

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Victory Gin and Victory Cigarettes come to mind :(

[freyjaw.livejournal.com]

Samw brainwave! How do you do that??? I thought the same thing when I read the post. Then my thoughts got too silly and overboard.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask which country "Victory" is supposed to replace?

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Have you read 1984, by George Orwell?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's been many years since I did.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

It doesn't replace a country. The idea is that the people in Oceania were smoking "Victory Cigarettes," which were abysmally bad, and drinking "Victory Gin," which was also dreadful, and eating "Victory Chocolate," which was basically cocoa-flavoured wax.

The idea being that renaming foods and other goods is inherently the sign of a facist state. Or something.

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

Here's the difference between Liberty Cabbage and Freedom Fries.

We were at war with Germany.
We are not at war with France.

[kayshapero]

Also Freedom Fries won't give you gas. (Might make you fat though.)

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Point taken.

OTOH, "Liberty Measles" cracks me up.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

...and in Britain, a German Shepard is still known as an Alsatian....

....and now French shop owners are getting threats?? WE ARE NOT AT WAR WITH FRANCE!!! This is all so F---ing STUPID!!!!


Think I'll go "Freedom-braid" my hair, and find my hubby to give him a nice sexy "Freedom-kiss".... :p :p

[firecat]

I notice there are no moves to call gasoline and oil "Freedom Fuel."

[freyjaw.livejournal.com]

What about "Freedom ticklers"?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Eeep!