🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 5 days agoAnon thinks the French are poserssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1801arrow-down19
arrow-up1792arrow-down1imageAnon thinks the French are poserssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 5 days agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 days agoThe US calls everything “French” because they think it’ll sell better.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoUntil we collectively decided to be jerks about it in the early 2000s and called them “freedom fries” and “freedom toast.” I think it’s so weird that we’re closer to the British than the French when France totally helped us out in the early days.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoYeah, I think so too, Japan does the same with food and luxury shops.
The US calls everything “French” because they think it’ll sell better.
Until we collectively decided to be jerks about it in the early 2000s and called them “freedom fries” and “freedom toast.” I think it’s so weird that we’re closer to the British than the French when France totally helped us out in the early days.
Yeah, I think so too, Japan does the same with food and luxury shops.