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.