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Mar 19, 2003 - 5:12 AM
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Eric Paddon
(Member)
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The makers of French's mustard saw fit to clarify its heritage today. WASHINGTON TIMES-March 19 The company that makes French's mustard wants Americans to know the spicy condiment isn't French. It's British, but that's beside the point. Reckitt Benckiser PLC — the British behemoth that manufactures Lysol, Spray 'n Wash and French's mustard — issued a press release yesterday through a New Jersey subsidiary to remind reporters of the condiment's American seeds. "For the record, French's would like to say, there is nothing more American than French's mustard," the statement said. R.T. French Co., a Reckitt Benckiser precursor, introduced its "cream salad mustard," alongside the hot dog, in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair. It seems French's mustard wants to distance itself from the French people. France has refused to support the war in Iraq, which inspired two Republican members of Congress last week to call a press conference to announce that House cafeterias have dropped the word "french" before fries and toast on their menus and replaced it with "freedom." Americans expect this sort of thing from politicians. But a press release, on the eve of war, to declare French's mustard isn't French? Isn't that laying it on a little thick?
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Yesterday, a complete stranger took a long look at my beard, and mentioned to me that I bear a resemblence to TV's Family Affair's "Mr. French". To which I replied, "No. I'm Mr. Australian."
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"French's mustard came from the country of the same name since both are noted for being yellow." Now THAT'S FUNNY! Dana! Dana Wilcox! Are you here? See? Eric really DOES have a good sense of humor! PS: I prefer Dijon m'self...
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Awwww, c'mon Dana! Ya' don't have to smoke weed to make a funny! (At least that's never been a problem for ME!)
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So's Mr. French -- either Sebastian Cabot or the actor John Williams -- from "Family Affair."
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"No-necked monsters," in Tennessee Williams's immortal phrasing.
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