This seems a little ridiculous

[Striker]

Typical American Soundbite tripe.  I imagine I'll see it on CNN.  Maybe even Wolfy will headline it.

Actually, the basis behind the whole "french fry" name change was, in fact, mentioned on CNN.com. Some restaurant back East did it, word got out to the media, and it just snowballed from there.

One thing I would like to mention is that something similar happened back during WWI or WWII (I forget which one, exactly). Someone in the food biz changed the name of the "frankfurter" to "hot dog" since the original was "too Germanic" for the public. I think they did that to "sauerkraut" (is that how you spell it?) too and changed it to something similar to "freedom fries". I think it was "freedom cabbage" or something like that.

Just goes to show that some people have too much time on their hands.