Subway is under fire for a new ad campaign.  In it they promote their Chicken Cordon Bleu sandwich with the following line:

"France and chicken, somehow it just goes together"

The ad also pictures a chicken dressed as Napolean (who was not French by the way).

An amusing ad, but of course one that cannot go unchallenged!  And so it was not.  But the challenges are almost as funny as the Ad!

by members of the French expatriate community and other customers offended by the racist undertone.

Racist?  French is a race?  Last census I filled out did not allow French as a race category!

"Saying that the French are dirty or cowards is a little bit like saying the sky is blue. Nobody is going to contest it," said Denis Chazelle, a long-time French resident of the Washington area who created a website in March to try and dispell misconceptions about his native country and who led the campaign against the Subway ads.

Well, at least some of them can laugh at themselves, for the sky really is blue!

"But if it concerns the French, it's no big deal," he said. "People here can say they hate the French without blinking an eye or an afterthought."

This is very true.  No one thinks it is a big deal to carp on cowards or ne'er do wells either.

"There is a kind of anti-French streak in the background of the culture of America," he (Marc Saint-Aubin du Cormier) told AFP.

Funny, I did not detect one in 1776, or after we bailed them out twice in the 20th century. Could it be a recent phenomenom?  As in Oil for Food Scandal?  As in palsy walsy Hussein?

Nah that is too simple! Les Americans are just Boorish snobs that dont have culture!  And dont appreciate the finer points of surrender!