when they tried to change the name of sauerkraut to liberty cabbage during WWII

[boggle] Did they eat liberty sausage, too? What about Italian pasta -- liberty noodles? I guess sushi wasn't widespread enough in those days to get called liberty fish?

And anyway, are those things called French fries anywhere other than the US? A Briton would understand the term, but would be more likely to call them chips; according to Larousse, the French themselves call them "pommes de terre pont-neuf", apparently after some chip-like decoration round a statue on the Pont-Neuf in Paris, though this sounds like an urban legend to me. Larousse doesn't mention the Belgium thing, but then it's far from impartial on the issue of whether stuff was invented in France or not.

Peter