Freedom Fries Etymology

Posted on Thursday 9 March 2006

I’ve been perusing Andrew Barr’s Drink: a Social History of America as a little background reading for the cocktail blog and came across this little tidbit: in the run up to the US’s involvement in World War II, anti-German sentiment led not only to Prohibitionist sentiment but also to a movement change the name of Hamburg steak to "liberty steak" and sauerkraut to "liberty cabbage." What’s the saying about history repeating itself?


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