Comments on: Get your Country out of my Happy Meal!: Liberty cabbage, Freedom fries and other Product Renamings

By: Endless Mike

Endless Mike — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:15:34 +0000

@Kristyn

While Coon’s Chicken Inn was a real place, complete with the giant minstrel entrance, the story of it becoming Cook’s Chicken was made up for the movie Ghost World. The real Coon’s Chicken Inn closed down when the owners realized that racial sentiments were changing.

By: illyjoel

illyjoel — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:38:59 +0000

I would like to see ranch dressing called ‘Merica Sauce.

By: BD

BD — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:42:40 +0000

Richard’s a little off on his cincinnati Reds trivia. For anyone who cares:

The franchise started off as the Redstockings. The original franchise desolved, and some of their best players moved to Boston in 1870 and became the Boston Redstockings. This team became the Beaneaters and then the Braves (now the Atlanta Braves). A second then third Redstockings franchise started in 1876 and 1882 Respectively. The 1882 Redstockings became the Reds eventually. The change to Redlegs was made in the 1950s as a reaction to the cold war, to avoid suspicion that they were tied to communism.

http://keymancollectibles.com/pinsbuttons/redlegspin.htm

By: smjjames

smjjames — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:57:50 +0000

Those students definetly had the right sense as far as talking about renaming stuff.

Now if our politicians could think as rationally and logically……

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:17:36 +0000

Sorry, Eli, but “The Redlegs” was the original official name of the Cincinnati Reds, dating back to the 19th Century. The original franchise later relocated to Boston, becoming the Red Sox.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:10:30 +0000

I love how the “religion of peace” can’t even handle drinking Coca Cola. The religion of perpetual outrage is more like it.

By: NerdFury

NerdFury — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:39:23 +0000

@kate:

Protip – stating you ‘don’t want to get into an online arguument’ whilst using the word ‘merely’ a lot and telling your internet opponent they ‘clearly misunderstood’ your intent (when your intent was to make a vague accusation at other commenters) just makes you sound like an online douchebag.

By: phineas

phineas — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:47:16 +0000

oooh… star spangled pudding snacks! Where can I get those?

By: Kristyn

Kristyn — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:28:22 +0000

There’s a lot.

Like Coon Chicken Inn changing to Cook’s Chicken. There are so many more, but I don’t feel like revitalizing Black Americana.

Also, in LA County there are parts where they changed Compton Blvd, to Marine.

By: Sydney

Sydney — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:29:23 +0000

Prof. Reka Benczes (of the American Studies Department at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) who has studied these kinds of linguistic matters pointed out that “french fries” didn’t just become “American fries,” but rather “freedom fries.” (not just erasing the word “French” but injecting more meaning into the metaphor for the fried potatoes)

Also, towns and streets across the globe have been renamed during and after wartime.