In Pop Culture
In the March 15, 2003 episode of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey reported this on the satirical Weekend Update: "In a related story, in France, American cheese is now referred to as 'idiot cheese'."
Illustrator and caricaturist Steve Brodner titled his 2004 collection of illustrations Freedom Fries (ISBN 1-560-97593-8).
In the comic strip Doonesbury, the characters Mark Slackmeyer and Zonker Harris criticized the name change in French. Slackmeyer said that, translated, the U.S. liberated France in World War Two; and that many French newspapers headline after 9/11 was "We are all American". At the end, he states that the anti-French were "jingoistic, self-regarding conquer-monkeys!"
French & American indie duo Freedom Fry chose their name ironically based on the Freedom Fries phenomenon.
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