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March 11, 2003
Congressional Chef Renames Chicken-Fried Steak

(2003-03-11) -- Just a day after the head chef of the U.S. Congressional cafeterias changed the name of French Fries to Freedom Fries, he announced France would still have a place on the Congressional menu.

That's because chicken-fried steak has been renamed "French-fried steak."

"We didn't want to completely exclude the French after their great historic contributions to the fields of cuisine and combat," the chef said. "I might add that our customers can still order French Dip Sandwiches.

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And Kentucky Fried Chicken announced that they will be renamed French Fried Chicken until the they start showing that they are more than yellow, back-stabbing, cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

Posted by: Justin at March 11, 2003 05:16 PM

I love it!

Posted by: James Joyner at March 11, 2003 05:41 PM

French products and companies to boycott:

http://nikita_demosthenes.blogspot.com/

Posted by: nikita demosthenes at March 11, 2003 06:02 PM

In order to add salt to the wound, Congress passed a bill (100-0) stating that McDonalds would rename all of their [terrible] food with the word French included. Now, McDonalds is serving French McNuggets, Shake-the French-up Salads, and the new WhopFrench burger.

Posted by: Paul C. Tindall at March 11, 2003 06:25 PM

French-Fried Steak! Very creative. A much better zinger than naming "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries". Anything with the word "chicken" in it should become "French", ie: French McNuggets.

Posted by: ZigZag at March 11, 2003 06:43 PM

Another way to diss the French is to deliberately speak their language badly.

Posted by: Xrlq at March 11, 2003 07:32 PM

This link has excerpts from a speech by Neville Chamberlain circa 1939. Sound familiar?
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html

Posted by: Susan Serin-Done at March 11, 2003 07:33 PM

Sorry Scott, I know this is a satire site, but I would like to post a link to a Pro-America song. It was on Hannity and Colmes last night, and is at, www.hannity.com. You can download the song, please spend 3 minutes and 45 seconds to listen, as a lot of radio station are refusing to play it. They will play Mellencamp's anti-war song, but not Darryl Worley's, Why? After you go to www.hannity.com, scroll down to, Hannity's Pro-American Song Club, "Have You Forgotten", then click on the song. It's free, what have you got to lose?

Posted by: Susan Serin-Done at March 11, 2003 08:27 PM

susan the song is great :)

its seems we have some fox news fans
be cool guys I am a new-be

Posted by: me at March 11, 2003 09:23 PM

what's the new slang term for chipped beef on toast?

A frenchman on a shingle ahhahahahahahahahhaha.

Posted by: Gin Blossom at March 11, 2003 10:15 PM

A.P.A. ANNOUNCES NEW RETARDATION TERMINOLOGY

Responding to frequent complaints that the designations used in the categorization scheme for ranking low levels of intelligence are too stimatizing, the American Pyschology Association has revised the terminology as follows:


IQ between 52-68 will be termed 'German' instead of 'moron'

IQ between 36-51 will be termed 'Belgian' instead of 'imbecile'

IQ between 20-35 will be termed 'French' instead of 'idiot'

The designation for an IQ under 20 will not be changed in the new scheme, and will still be called 'Democrat'

Posted by: Keith at March 11, 2003 11:36 PM

A bit off topic, but here is a short history on how "french fries" got their name. Hint, they gave the wrong Paris credit. LOL. http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/InventingHamburgerFrenchFriesBB602.htm

Posted by: Kestrel at March 12, 2003 06:06 AM

Great story Kestrel! I'll order Paris, Texas fries next time!

Posted by: Susan Serin-Done at March 12, 2003 06:33 AM

Whenever I am confronted by or confront a vocal supporter of the Peace Movement, before engaging that individual in any kind of debate or discussion, I first ask if he or she demonstrated against the Clinton excursions into Kosovo, Serbia, and Africa, or against the Clinton missile attack on Iraq. If the response is "no", I dismiss the person and the argument as spurious. I see these people as attackers of President Bush, who will be up for re-election in less than two years. This means that the activism in which these people cloak themselves is nothing more than campaign politics, and, at this time, I have no interest in political campaigns. Sometimes, if I am in an ill humour, I might indulge in a little invective at the expense of the poor misguided soul, but, by and large, I just go my merry way. I am sure that my position is not unique, and that these folks have a set of stock answers (read excuses) for the Clinton adventures so if any poster out there can enlighten me, I would greatly appreciate it.

Posted by: Joseph at March 12, 2003 10:47 AM

Joseph - EXACTLY my sentiments. Their tactics are so transparent, only the people with "French" "Belgium" or "German" IQs are taken in.

Posted by: AHA at March 12, 2003 11:01 AM

Keith,
That was great and I will continue to use these to PC terms for the mental midgets that I encounter.

Joseph,
I couldn't have said it any better. It is all political and we are fortunate to be open-minded enough to see that.

Kestral,
Great site, Texas Fries it is!

Posted by: Justin at March 12, 2003 12:25 PM

I liked this one from another website:
I've decided to invade France; right now, I'm training an elite corps of Girl Scouts to do the job. We'll be using foam baseball bats as weapons. I figure within 48 hours, we'll have complete control.

Posted by: Beth at March 12, 2003 01:47 PM

Beth,
make sure they strategicaly place those foam bats in Pres. Chrirac, of course his favorite movie is about gay cowboys eating pudding so maybe that wouldn' be an effective punishment...

Posted by: Justin at March 12, 2003 02:51 PM

Here is our plan in France:

1) The US prepare a resolution to attack North Korea because they have kiked out their inspectors and they have nuclear weapons.
+ The US declares that North koreans are bad guys, are helping Al Quaida, are developing a secret weapon etc...
Of course some of it is invented and without serious evidence but it sounds convincing at the UN and on CNN.

2)France is using it's veto because we are weasels.Mr Bush is furious and declares French kissing illegal.

3)Mr Bush is advised that the missile shield system is finally working and decides to strike first.

4)North Korea is destroyed and so is part of North America because the missile shield system was not so good after all.

5)The French rediscover America and decide that as the new superpower,it's their turn to rule the world.

Posted by: operation french fries at March 12, 2003 05:20 PM

Could you all imagine if France was left to rule America! Look what kind of history they have and what they have done to that poor area of the world. I would think God would take one look at that and decide enough is enough and just have a big meteor smack the earth. Which reminds me, did any of you get some sick sadistic pleasure watching Armageddon (with Bruce Willis) and see Paris get wasted. ahhh, if only life was fair...

Posted by: Justin at March 12, 2003 05:25 PM

I guess you just have a sadistic pleasure watching things get destroyed and people having foam bats strategicaly placed. This kind of action is typical of American culture.
If I remember correcty your God decided that some meteors would also fall on NYC in Armageddon.

Posted by: operation french fries at March 12, 2003 06:51 PM

OFF, you are in serious need of a sense of humor! It is arrogant little pissants like yourself that give France a bad name.
BTW, you all had your chance to have America, you lost it during the french-indian wars and through the Louisian purchase, so have your cheese with your wine (because we are longer buying it!).

Posted by: Justin at March 12, 2003 07:04 PM

Have to admit I wasn't too crazy about NATO bombing the Balkans for 88 days straight, was shocked at the photos I saw, blown up graveyards, bombing that T.V. station, the China embassy. Complete Landscaping...Inground Swimming Pools -Call NATO Now. "when precise location isn't critical". But you're right. Wasn't much protestin' going on. Maybe I was the only one.

Posted by: ledonquelais at March 12, 2003 09:57 PM

France the new superpower? When were they promoted ahead of Togo, Costa Rica, and Lichtenstein?

Posted by: chickenfriedsteak at March 13, 2003 04:22 AM

OFF, at first I saw your point about wishing that a bunch of girl scouts would strategicall place foam bats into Chrirac, but then I realized that the guy is an anti-american jerk-off. He hates America and that is it. He will do anything to try and make us look bad or cause us trouble. He even started giving the former soviet satalite countries crap because they were to "pro-american" and therefore wanted to block their entry into the EU. What a jerk, who does he think he is. I could say that he truly suffers from a Napoleonic syndrome.
BTW, meteors did hit NYC in that movie, but didn't whipe it off the planet, that was the point I was making.

Posted by: Justin at March 13, 2003 06:14 PM

ledonquelais:
vis a vis (ahh the french they have such a way with words)bombing of chinese embassy in serbia: I read or heard of one report, claiming it was no accident, that parts of the f-117 that had been shot down had been brought there for examination/ shipment to the worker's paradise. Our military decided that was not a good thing. C'est la vie.

Posted by: wizegoi at March 13, 2003 10:40 PM

I have heard yesterday that 70% of New Yorkers are against this war. I think they realise that
If you attack Iraq the Arabs will be so upset that the next 9/11 could be much worse.
Terrorism is new in the US.

We have had to deal with it for decades in France with bomb squads runing around our metro and people getting blown up on a weekly basis.
Also, about 6% of our population is composed of muslims from North Africa.

The conservative vote in the US comes mostly from small cities and rural areas where people think they will not be affected by terrorism.
They believe in Bush's simple theories of good guys, bad guys.

Chirac is not Anti-American, he doesn't necessarily look down at any idea that is not from France. He is just Anti-stupidity.

I have no doubt that the US can get a victory over the weak Iraqi army.I can't wait to see what will happen when you occupy Iraq.

During the last gulf war,Mr Bush senior(who I respect a lot more than dubbya) realised he could not control Iraq and asked the military to get out of it.

Is Bush Jr really the president anyway ?
Maybe you should recount the votes of the last election one more time, just to make sure.

By the way, I am more than happy to live in France and I don't need a green card, Thank you.

Posted by: frogwatch at March 14, 2003 03:07 AM

Okay, Froggy, you are an easy mark baby. Response to each of your paragraphs:

1. You heard wrong. And you claim that if we respond in strength against terrorists they will keep fighting? Guess we'll find out. France, however, never will.
2. You were invited to join us. You chose not to. None the less you are still a terrorist victim and likely will continue to be so. See my line 1 above. And are you implying that all Muslims are terrorists or potential terrorists? They are not, get over your fear - grow a spine.
3. The conservative vote in America comes from gun owners, my friend, and we do not fear terrorists.
4. Chiraq defines stupidity, unless he has some brilliant master plan he has yet to reveal? He has ensured war by not standing up to the threat. The UN is a goner. What is France's gain? Other nations with economic ties to Iraq that have also been hit by terorists, but they are not cowering.
5. Unfortunately, what will happen, among other things, is your economy may crumble. I assume you are a bicycle enthusiast?
6 & 7. Yea, whatever. Not taking the bait. Too easy. An opinion on your part. Here's a fact: during the First Gulf War, The French Air Force had to stay on the sidelines because the Iraqi Air Force flew French Planes (Though not for long!) and the French pilots feared the rest of the coalition would shoot them down.
8. The obvious: You would be happy anywhere, because you actually live in a fantasy world.

Posted by: Greyhawk at March 14, 2003 06:51 AM

Terrorism is guerilla war, you cannot fight it with tanks and missiles.

Look at your friends the Israelis who are invading Palestinian territories.They regularly send their tanks to kill some Arabs thinking it will keep them quite.
It doesn't seem to work: every time they get a new special visitor from Palestine with a belt made of explosives.

Posted by: frogwatch at March 14, 2003 09:09 AM

Concerning my comment:
"During the last gulf war,Mr Bush senior(who I respect a lot more than dubbya) realised he could not control Iraq and asked the military to get out of it"
This is not my opinion. Mr Scowcroft and Jim Baker (who where working directly with Bush Sr at the white house) explained this in an interview.

Posted by: frogwatch at March 14, 2003 09:51 AM

Herr Frosch
The liberal response: having been stumped on every point, change the subject. Yet still no score for ze, mon frere! The Israelis ae policing their own territory; this is fact and not opinion. Yes, crime continues. This argument does not justify ceasing to fight crime. I believe even France has les gendarmes!
Now, your reference to an "interview"...well gosh, if you paraphrase an un-credited interview, that's compelling argument there buddy! Guess you got me on that one, yup, it were probly on TV so it wudda have ta been true...

Posted by: Greyhawk at March 14, 2003 10:32 AM

Maybe It was just someone imitating James Baker and Scowcroft. Or maybe I heard wrong again...
It seems that only what you say is fact.
Of course I doubt that they would be showing the same programs on your propaganda chanels like CNN and Fox.

Posted by: frogwatch at March 14, 2003 11:43 AM

No, not only what I say. In fact, your statement "what you say is fact" proves that you too are indeed capable of reciting facts.

Posted by: greyhawk at March 14, 2003 12:46 PM

Greyhawk,
I guess he missed all the other specials that would tell him that the military and the UN told him not to occupy Iraq during the 1st Gulf War. We had authorization to free Kuwait and anything else would upset a lot of people and go against the UN mandate. He also doesn't understand that we didn't want to look like a blood thirsty country going for an overtly large body count. That is only touching the surface of why we stopped.
Bush 41 is probably kicking himself for not taking SH out when he could (considering Iraq almost took HIM out in '93). He probably also realizes that tens of thousands of Iraqis and Kurds were killed after the hostilities and it could have been corrected. Imaging carrying around that burden for the rest of your life!
Froggie,
Give it up, the war will happen, your country will lose billions and your economy will go to hell in a handbasket. After your economy fails you will be crawling back to us asking for help ONCE AGAIN and we will probably give it because we are that way.
Remember, it is your president that has taken you down this path and he is not wising up. If he was smart, he would accept the inevitable and make a deal with the USA. This deal would help your country regain the contracts that will be lost after the war.

Posted by: Justin at March 14, 2003 05:23 PM

frogwatch;

We have implimented a new yellow card especially for the French.

If Chriaq was really anti-stupidity.. he would be advocting the UN lead by US and UK forces, invade France and liberate you too.

Posted by: Phrog Poet at March 16, 2003 12:56 AM

Should have named it "Chicken-French Steak." With the way the world is getting screwed up the jokes are begining to make more sense than the reality!

Posted by: calman1949 at March 16, 2003 10:00 AM

" he missed all the other specials that would tell him that the military and the UN told him not to occupy Iraq during the 1st Gulf War. We had authorization to free Kuwait and anything else would upset a lot of people and go against the UN mandate. "

For once I agree with you.
This is also true this time.

Regarding our economy, have you seen the state of your economy, your trade balance deficit and the bill for the war?

Posted by: frogwatch at March 17, 2003 06:15 AM

We're glad of what they did to you
At Agincourt and Waterloo.
And now the Franco-Prussian War
Is something we feel strongly for.
So take your bread and take your wines,
Your twisted loaves and twisted vines,
Your selfish quest for nuclear power
And stick them up your Eiffel Tower.

by Shirley-Anne MacKellar
Southern Highlands
Papua New Guinea
(from "Post Courier", Port Moresby, circa 1973)

Posted by: MTCason at March 19, 2003 03:43 PM

So now you care about what Puapua new Guinea thinks?
Do you even know where it is?
Those guys where just upset because of the French testing of nuclear missiles in the south Pacific.
Basically you are defending your war in Irak by quoting a Pacifist. That's funny.

Sorry, we don't have the Nevada desert to do our testing.

And we don't need the United-states to tell us what to think and do.

Posted by: frogwatch at March 20, 2003 05:29 PM

Frogwatch,
exactly, you don't need us to tell you what you should be doing. We will always disagree, but when your countries motives are in question that is where we get a little upset. When we find all the WMD and all the aid that you all have been giving you will have a lot of explaining to do (think I love lucy..) and that will put a deep freeze on our countries relations. Who will hurt the most from that, not us.

And don't be so condescending about geography. You french always seem to try and put yourselves higher than us and it gets old. Try and show some intellectual respect and if you can't you can always go the the other side of the web (the porn area that you are so familiar with).

Posted by: Justin at March 20, 2003 06:58 PM

Justin you and Frogwatch need to grow up and smell the roses. You live in fairly decent countries where a difference of opinion is allowed, where a man can run for president without having to bootlick someon'e shoes by joing the noisier party. Unfortunately for us, that is not the case. While you guys are squabbling about Iraq, cheese and such like things, we Zimbabweans live in a climate of uncertainty, where a president elected in 1980 is presiding over a corrupt, morally bankrupt government that is gobbling up farms all in the name of "Land Reform". These farms and their produce are being shared among the Zanu pf big cats and their apologists.
Fine, you may say, at least there is land redistribution, and the rich white men have been deprived of their multiple properties so that someone else can run them. That's fair, isn't it?
Wrong.

These people use the farms as weekend playgrounds, where they shoot the cattle, braai the meat and have themselves a high old time with some beer. They have no knowledge or skill in farming, so they grow jack on these farms.
Others build houses on what used to be prime arable land, where one could see potatoes, wheat, tomatoes, sunflowers, cotton and other nutritious crops. Because of this greed, this criminal greed and callous indifference, an estimated SIX MILLION ZIMBABWEANS ARE STARVING. While cde so- and-so relaxes on the 4th farm he has wrenched away from the "murungus". Granted, quite a lot of the new farmers are not party satraps or fat, indolent sympathisers-they have a genuine desire to plough, cultivate and enrich these farms with their labours. But there are precious few of these people, and most do not have the capital or the machinery and infrastructure to run the farms the way they should. The result is widespread shortages of basic commodities in a country which once fed other nations in southern africa.

And though there is widespread support for the idea of voting in the opposition party, people are leery about their chances once they become known as activists. We all remember the mysterious bombing of Herbert Chitepo's car in Zambia before Independence, the assassination of Josiah Tongorara, the disappearance of Rashiwe Guzha, the TWENTY THOUSAND MATABELE WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN BUTCHERED IN THE GURAKUHUNDI MASSACRE after Independence.
The cycle continues and the continuing gang rapes of young girls, the torture of opposition MPs-remember Learnmore?-and the increased looting of the economy gather pace.
It's little wonder thousands of Zimbabweans leave this sad country every year...

Ah, but you say, President Bush pushed for sanctions against our El Presidente. True, but when he came to Africa, instead of using that golden opportunity to "throw down" on our "beloved leader", Bush modified his stance, and watching Zimbabweans groaned in dismay, as the world's most powerful leader deprived us of any hope that our leader would be brought to heel.
Our "beloved leader" then was proclaiming that he would kill every British and American child if Zimbabwe were invaded while in reality he cowered in his shoes at state house.
Was Bush scared or intimidated?

Chirac did worse, inviting our dictator to France for a conference. When there was a hue and cry, he said he believed no African leader would attend the summit without our honourable murderer in attendance.
Seems like Bush and Chirac both come out smelling less like roses and more like manure. Horse manure...

So like I say, you guys need to grow up. Cos things ain't half as bad for you as they are for us. And that is the truth.

By The Way: our dishonourable minister of information has a plan to aquire new spy software which will allow him to eavesdrop on mails like this.
Who know? This may be my last night as a free man.

-B

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