i was in middle school and went to olive garden with my parents. the waiter had one of those voices that…you know, that men in the gay community normally have.

and so they had this soup on the menu i wanted called pasta fagioli that i wasn’t sure how to pronounce and also i had social anxiety

and it didn’t go well

  • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
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    I tried to order “freedom fries” at a burger restaurant once. My mom looked at me like she didn’t know me. It was a tough afternoon for 13-year-old me. My face is heating up just remembering.

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        France didn’t support the invasion of Iraq in 2003 so some especially stupid Americans tried to get people to call french fries freedom fries

        • Always reminded me of the Battle of the Frogs. Talk as much shit about French military success, but one night a bunch of actual croaking frogs sent the residents of an entire New England town screaming into the night because of the mere thought that French soldiers were approaching as they slept. The cunning and brutality of French soldiers was practically mythical.

          I don’t know they were fighting about Canada or something. /s

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        It was a thing for about one week in 2003 in the Whitehouse and it has been mocked for twenty years.

        Like the man committed war crimes because he said God was telling him to and the only thing we ever mention is this.