GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: French Fries, Robert Falcon Scott, Freedom Fries
9 Aug 2020
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Food has semiotic value (study of symbols and myths) Throughout small towns will also see wooden pineapple in new england as a symbol of hospitality. 2006 publish in a danish new source, of an iran objection of publication of a human face. Prohibited the sales of danish is iran and changed the name to the rose of mohammed. In canada and us cannot buy sour croutes they were called victory cabbages. Could not buy a hamburger it was called a liberty sandwich. Outcry of the french and stopped calling them french fries, instead called. Food can be used to represent an idea. Food also used to create a sense of geographic identity. Has a national identity attached to them (local scale) In eastern canada, they deep fry each meal breakfast, lunch and dinner thus they don"t put away oil. Thus there are more house fire in eastern canada. To insult their nationality is to insult their food.
