This is still going on

Ah, our tax dollars at play... can we recall everyone responsible for spending public funds on this ridiculous playground one-upsmanship?

Considering the Andean Incas discovered potatoes, and Belgians and the French argue over who first deep fried them, any argument over french fries, or any other food with the word "french in it", is for waterhead idiots and never newsworthy. The fact that actual elected representatives wasted their time on this is absurd. They deserve to not be re-elected.

To quote Al Bundy,

"It is good to hate the French."

Again the idiot leaders of the U.S. find they need to waste time and money on something the French are probobly laughing about. They don't give a shit about the french fries and french toast, start buying more of their booze again damnit.

Would that be racism, strictly speaking?

maybe geographism

I think hating the French falls into the same special category as making donut jokes about cops. It's not neccesarily deserved, but that doesn't make it any less funny.

We only have ourselves to blame. If half the American populace weren't a bunch of reactionary idiots who don't expose themselves to any media other than Fox News, we probably wouldn't have started the debate in the first place.

You know, more people (in terms of numbers) opposed the war in the US than in France. And as it turns out, the people that opposed the war are looking smarter and smarter everyday.

Or we could really give the wingnuts a turn and call snacky good fried potatoes "pomme frittes."