🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agoAnon thinks the French are poserssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1767arrow-down19
arrow-up1758arrow-down1imageAnon thinks the French are poserssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoThe US calls everything “French” because they think it’ll sell better.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours 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-up1·1 day 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.