the fry thing
Mar. 11th, 2003 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenWas originally replying in Mad Poetess's thread about the renaming of french fries but it got too long so I'm bringing it here.
Yeah, I heard about this one coming down the pike a few weeks ago and just kept my mouth shut because I really, really, really stupidly hoped that SOMEBODY was just waiting until the last minute before saying "Gotcha! Fooled you! No, seriously, we're spending these tax dollars on the poor, but wouldn't the fry thing have been funny?"
I mean Holy God. As others have said, lord knows we've done this in the past with things like hamburgers and frankfurters while at war with Germany (which, again, doesn't really make that much sense either but you can at least see how they got there from here).
But this - this isn't even insane troll logic. Because insane troll logic at least makes sense to insane trolls. This is like - it's IRAQ! We hate IRAQ! (Supposedly)! If you were going to persecute a food, and really again I'm not seeing why you should, shouldn't it be, you know, Iraqi food? Did we pick on french fries simply because nobody in Congress could actually point to Iraqi food on a bet?
And what about the other countries, whimsically known as "The entire world which is not Britian, and even Britian too when you count the parts of it that are not actually, at this time, Tony Blair"? Are we going to start renaming their food too? And considering that there's a good chunk of America that doesn't support the war either, should we be renaming American food too? Hell, nobody in Seattle likes this war, let's shut down Starbucks.
How the hell did this even pass? You're telling me not one person involved had the balls to look at the instigators and say, as for example, "You're shitting me, right?"
And we paid for this! Our tax dollars paid their salaries, their salaries pay them to work and the thing that they decided to work on was this.
You know I'm about 3-5 hours from DC, depending on how I get there. Remind me why I'm not storming the Capital and just randomly slapping people?
Oh yeah, that whole "plus I'd shoot Bush while I was there" thing. Right.
Yeah, I heard about this one coming down the pike a few weeks ago and just kept my mouth shut because I really, really, really stupidly hoped that SOMEBODY was just waiting until the last minute before saying "Gotcha! Fooled you! No, seriously, we're spending these tax dollars on the poor, but wouldn't the fry thing have been funny?"
I mean Holy God. As others have said, lord knows we've done this in the past with things like hamburgers and frankfurters while at war with Germany (which, again, doesn't really make that much sense either but you can at least see how they got there from here).
But this - this isn't even insane troll logic. Because insane troll logic at least makes sense to insane trolls. This is like - it's IRAQ! We hate IRAQ! (Supposedly)! If you were going to persecute a food, and really again I'm not seeing why you should, shouldn't it be, you know, Iraqi food? Did we pick on french fries simply because nobody in Congress could actually point to Iraqi food on a bet?
And what about the other countries, whimsically known as "The entire world which is not Britian, and even Britian too when you count the parts of it that are not actually, at this time, Tony Blair"? Are we going to start renaming their food too? And considering that there's a good chunk of America that doesn't support the war either, should we be renaming American food too? Hell, nobody in Seattle likes this war, let's shut down Starbucks.
How the hell did this even pass? You're telling me not one person involved had the balls to look at the instigators and say, as for example, "You're shitting me, right?"
And we paid for this! Our tax dollars paid their salaries, their salaries pay them to work and the thing that they decided to work on was this.
You know I'm about 3-5 hours from DC, depending on how I get there. Remind me why I'm not storming the Capital and just randomly slapping people?
Oh yeah, that whole "plus I'd shoot Bush while I was there" thing. Right.
