French fries foes in Florida
An official in a Florida resort has requested a resolution that would change the name of the American food staple known as french fries.
Commissioner Burt Aaronson is upset with France’s reluctance to back a US led war with Iraq and wants the name changed to freedom fries or American fries in Palm Beach County.
“I won’t even mention the other name,” he said today.
Aaronson, 75, said he was inspired by a North Carolina restaurant owner who changed the name of the chips to freedom fries on his menu.
Aaronson already had said he would seek to block a subsidiary of the French company Vivendi Environmental from getting a £16m (€23.44m) government contract to build a sludge treatment plant.
“American lives were left all through France thorough two world wars,” Aaronson said. “This is another little thing to say to the French government: Wake up.”
The suggestion met no resistance at a commission meeting. County Administrator Bob Weisman was directed to prepare an official resolution, which would not be binding and could be ready by March 11.
“We’ll declare that all the potatoes previously called french fries in our county will now be called freedom fries or American fries,” Weisman said.
