Mar
27
2003

slamming the french ... again

The French continue to be slammed and shunned. WP’s Lloyd Grove reports:

Yesterday, in “an important culinary note” from President Bush’s visit to Central Command headquarters in Tampa, the Houston Chronicle’s Bennett Roth led his White House pool report: “The French are toast on Air Force 1.”

Roth went on: “Before our rendez-vous with Ari [Fleischer], poolers were served breakfast. It is now gauche to refer to the French on the president’s plane. The written menu informed us we were having ‘stuffed freedom toast topped with strawberries.’ This gourmet meal included cream cheese stuffed into the toast. Not being a gourmand, your pooler skipped that item and opted for a politically correct bagel instead. Ari said he was unaware of the change in the menu.”

Meanwhile… the makers of French’s Mustard felt the need to issue a press release saying, “The only thing French about French’s Mustard is the name!” (Probably due to all the attention it’s been getting, the press release has since been revised/retitled to the more tame “French’s Mustard named after founder R.T. French.”)

Posted at 3:08 PM in politics & bureaucracy

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