Company drops effort to trademark 'Freedom Fries'

[Newsjock]

Source: CBC News

Irving-owned Cavendish Farms has abandoned its efforts to trademark the name Freedom Fries, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

Irving's trademark efforts date back to 2003, when the war in Iraq began. Some Americans weren't happy with what they felt was a lack of support from France, which led to a movement to rename french fries Freedom Fries.

... No one from Irving will talk about the three years it spent trying to acquire the name, but documents show in 2006, the company gave up. By then, the chilly relationship between the U.S. and France had begun to thaw.

... Six others applied to trademark Freedom Fries. The current owner of the name is Neal Rowland, the owner of Cubbie's Restaurant in Beaufort, N.C.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/11/20/freedomfries-irving.html

[gatorboy]

1. In other news: We are surrounded by dumb asses.

More after the break.

[Itchinjim]

2. These are the heirs to the same idiots..

who tried during WWI to rename sauerkraut "Liberty cabbage" Same dolts, different era.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Listen to this:

I was at a German-American club in Coplay, Pennsylvania as recently as last summer. Their snack bar explicitly was selling "freedom fries". I sought out the president of the club and reminded him of the "liberty cabbage" (sauerkraut), "coney islands" (frankfurters), and "salisbury steaks" (hamburgers) to denigrate the German-American contributions to the American diet. This wasn't the first time I took up the issue with him.

I won't be surprised if the club is still hawking the freedom fries next year. How soon they forget.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Who knew. Farmers giving up the fight for Freedom.

Another victory for Al Qaeda.