my friends, here lies the entombed, eternal franco-american culture fissure finally explained: That name change (French toast and fries into Freedom toast and fries), silly as it was, bared a long-simmering cultural antagonism between imperial (American) machismo and a more feminine (French) Epicurianism, and ratcheted it up a notch. - Stephen Holden, "An Epicure's 15-Course French Feast"