France has one-upped Congress in the silly food war. (Congress recently changed the names of French fries and French toast served in their cafeteria to Freedom fries and Freedom toast, respectively.) Whether you like the snotty, beret-wearing, wine swilling, surrender-monkey French or not, you have to give them some credit for this one. A French website is sending pretzels to Bush. I'm wondering if this could be seen as an act of terrorism given the threat that pretzels have caused the president in the past. If you don't recall, President Bush passed out after choking on a pretzel early last year while watching a football game. He fell off the couch and ended up with a nasty bruise
on his face.
The score is currently:
France: 1
Congress: 0
I wouldn't give France a score for sending pretzels to Bush. The fact that the U.S. House of Representatives switched the name of french Fries and french Toast to Freedom fries and Freedom toast goes to show how france is AGAINST Freedom for the Iraqi people when it comes to France's own economy (importing over 50% of their oil from Iraq). Sending pretzels to Bush is more like an act of terrorism, as you suggested, rather than showing any symbolic meaning. The U.S. House gets a double pointer for zinging the French on that one, France just gets a penalty for the low blow while falling face first into the canvas from striking themselves.
Posted by: Seth at March 19, 2003 03:19 AM