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Old 05-17-2011, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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To the OP........ROFL.....I'd say it's been the other way around for the past decade or more!

OR did you already forget King George declaring Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast as our new national dishes!
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Old 05-17-2011, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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To the OP........ROFL.....I'd say it's been the other way around for the past decade or more!

OR did you already forget King George declaring Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast as our new national dishes!
My personal hatred of France started in 1995, long before GW Bush. The time since then they have only validated my feelings and opinion of them.
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Old 05-17-2011, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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Since the French revolution, the French have never been allies with the US. In fact, our very first foreign war was with France.
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Old 05-17-2011, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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French food sucks! I had much better food in Spain, Italy, and Greece. As for their wine, I'll put some California, Spanish, and Italian wines up against ones in France.
Ya just can't beat those good ole Freedom Fries!
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Old 05-17-2011, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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My personal hatred of France started in 1995, long before GW Bush. The time since then they have only validated my feelings and opinion of them.
If hatred is what you dig, denn enjoy yourself!
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Old 05-17-2011, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Phoenix
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French food sucks! I had much better food in Spain, Italy, and Greece. As for their wine, I'll put some California, Spanish, and Italian wines up against ones in France.
When I was in Paris in 1973 visiting a family member I was quite surprised when she told me the national meal in France was steak and fries.
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Old 05-17-2011, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Since the French revolution, the French have never been allies with the US. In fact, our very first foreign war was with France.
yeah they helped defeat the british navy and fought along side you during The American Revolutionary War
Benjamin Franklin had been in France for over a year before France decided to join the war. The surrender at Saratoga prompted the French, who had already given much covert help to the Americans, to openly enter the war as an American ally. The rupture came in March when British ambassador Lord Stormont was recalled from Paris, but since neither fleet was ready for service, actual hostilities did not begin until July.

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then france got what is now quebec and part of Canada and Canada was under britsh rule and still is part of the commonwealth heck our money still has the queen on it but yet Canada and the US have been allies for over 200 years.

the US needed the french and spanish navy to take on the massive british fleet remember it was 1778
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Old 05-17-2011, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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yeah they helped defeat the british navy and fought along side you during The American Revolutionary War
Benjamin Franklin had been in France for over a year before France decided to join the war. The surrender at Saratoga prompted the French, who had already given much covert help to the Americans, to openly enter the war as an American ally. The rupture came in March when British ambassador Lord Stormont was recalled from Paris, but since neither fleet was ready for service, actual hostilities did not begin until July.

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then france got what is now quebec and part of Canada and Canada was under britsh rule and still is part of the commonwealth heck our money still has the queen on it but yet Canada and the US have been allies for over 200 years.

the US needed the french and spanish navy to take on the massive british fleet remember it was 1778
Right wing, anti-french nutjobs enjoy evading facts like this... of course their ideology is descended from pro-slave state ideologies which itself is descended from loyalist ideologies.
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Old 05-17-2011, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Land of debt and Corruption
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You must remember that Europeans in general, and the French specifically, are much more sophisticated about matters sexual than we are here in the US. That's why many here, on these very forums, believe that we should emulate them.
More sophisticated? He's charged with attempted rape for God's sake. This isn't about sophisticated sexuality, unless you believe rape to be nothing more than sexual.
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Old 05-17-2011, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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They're jealous of our cuisine, especially Boone's Farm wine and Kraft processed cheese.
do we really have our own cusine north america is pretty much an assortment of other countries dishes but we do have good BBQ ribs and steaks and seafood like lobster, crab and salmon and shrimp plus bet we have way more snack foods they could even imagine
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