[UA] french fries

Joe Littrell agent-13 at attbi.com
Sun Mar 23 19:05:40 PST 2003


At 12:56 PM 3/24/2003 +0930, Matthew SPEIGHT wrote:
>wouldn't be the first time the name of food was changed in the US,
>
>in WW2, Saurkraut was renamed Liberty Cabbage and Frankfurters were
>renamed Hot Dogs

Actually, frankfurters gained their amusing sobriquet sometime in the late 
1800s.

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