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The real question is "why do every other country calls this infamous sweet sauce 'French Mustard'?" It's a disgrace to french gastronomy.
They don't. It's "French's mustard" -- "French's" is a brand.
Edit: unless you're talking about Dijon mustard, which was created in France, so no real mystery there.
The French's brand has a tough time weathering the political divisiveness of the early Iraq war. They had to put out a statement because they were worried about dumbass Americans boycotting their products during the Iraq War because France opposed joining the Coalition of the Willing.
If France was in support, it wouldn't have been called the Coalition of the Willing since the war would've been approved by the UN. It was only named that since it was an illegal aggression against another country by the international standards, hence the need to get other countries involved to legitimize it.
Ah the whole "Freedom Fries" debacle
Wow! You changed my vision of this, I didn't know. thanks man!
French's mustard was made by a man named French. Similar to Caesar salad being Mexican, because the dude's name was Cesar.
"It's named after a guy" causes a lot of this confusion in STEM fields. It's always a misleading coincidence. Airy discs, the soft concentric rings of diffracted light, were documentary by one Dr. Airy. Dove prisms, resembling a dovetail joint, are pronounced doh-vay, after Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Radon transforms are crucial to nuclear medicine and 3D imaging, but there's no radon involved, just one Johann Radon. Metropolis light transport in raytracing has nothing to do with New York City, but everything to do with the Manhattan Project, and one Greek mathematician. Bloom filters, spreading points of data into smooth coverage, have a perfectly fitting name that happens to be surname of their creator... Burton Howard Filter.
Great comment.
Makes the "This is Mt. Mountain, it was discovered by John Mountain!" jokes you see in a lot of media actually funny.