@InternetEh You're quite right, but that was never the point: it was made at a specific time when the Republicans in charge were braying in fury that France wouldn't join them in war on Iraq. They engaged in utterly petty culture-war politics on the issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

My best friend growing up married a Frenchman, and they had to move to Paris because people refused to work with him based on all this.