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> When the freedom fries thing came up it was ridiculous and I am not sure how far it went in other states but they where still french fries in California. As far as I know it was just a republican stunt in the congressional cafeteria and never went beyond that. I think I remember them also renaming french toast to freedom toast.

This. It was a stunt that didn't even go very far. At the time I frequently bought french fries in a pretty conservative area, and never once saw them listed on a menu as "freedom fries." I was also pretty widely mocked (e.g. this is when it was made very clear that french fries weren't French).

The at least some stuff being done in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems a lot more like a legitimate boycott (though sometimes poorly executed) than the "freedom fries" stunt.