Is it a nickname or an insult?
2006-10-09 07:14:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
not a clue. all i know that it is very offensive to them. it's like using the "n" word.
there was a very funny scene in the movie Just Married with Ashton Kutcher where he and his bride are honeymooning in France and he and the bellhop are arguing, and Kutcher says "Well, you're just an ingnorant French...frog!" And the bellhop went nuts.
it was funny mainly for the reason that Kutcher, playing an American tourist, probably had no clue what he was saying...
2006-10-09 07:19:14 · answer #1 · answered by luke_r1996 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
French Frog
2016-09-29 02:27:09 · answer #2 · answered by besecker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well there are so many theories about that subject i'll add this
In World War II, the Frenchmen (France) were fighting alongside the Englishmen (England) and when the time to eat came along the French people would eat frog legs. Well as you can imagine it was not really the English soldiers' way of having a meal and hence started calling them French Frogs
2006-10-09 07:31:11 · answer #3 · answered by OG.Killa 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2015-08-18 19:03:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" served at a White House dinner in 1802.[5][6] The expression "French Fried Potatoes" first occurs in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren: "*French Fried Potatoes.—Cut new potatoes in thin slices, put them in boiling fat, and a little salt; fry both sides of a light golden brown colour; drain."[7] In the early 20th century, the term "French fried" was being used in the sense of "deep-fried," for other foods such as onion rings or chicken.[8][9]
2016-03-29 07:30:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an English insult (among others to the French) and does refer to their eating of frogs legs. It is a response to the French calling the English "les rosbifs" because of the British propensity for beef during the 17th/18th century.
2006-10-09 07:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by wilf69 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
An insult. It's a reference to eating frog legs.
2006-10-09 07:22:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm pretty sure calling a Frenchman a "frog" is no where near the severity of calling an African American a "n*gger".
2006-10-09 08:15:40 · answer #8 · answered by Barrett G 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
They are only called "french fries" in the US for the reason John mentioned above. In France they are called "pom frites", and in Mexico and Puerto Rico they are called "patatas fritas".
2016-03-13 21:53:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to me, it is not really an insult. It is rather a nickname.
Anyway, I don't care. French call the British "rosbif" (from "roast beef").
One thing is sure: I prefer beef...
2006-10-10 00:08:10 · answer #10 · answered by wizzie 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋