List of politically motivated renamings

• Australia: During World War I, jam-filled buns previously known as Berliners were renamed Kitchener buns, and a sausage product previously known as "Fritz" was renamed "Devon" (or "luncheon meat").
• Canada: During World War I, the Ontario city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener.^[1]
• Cyprus: Greek-Cypriots began to market Turkish Delight as Cyprus Delight after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.^[2]
• France: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety went so far as to banish all words associated with royalty. A major example of their work was taking Kings and Queens out of playing cards and replacing them with Committee members. It lasted less than a year. It's commonly believed that this was also the time when Aces earnt their status as being both the highest card and the lowest card.^[3]
• France: During World War I, coffee with whipped cream, previously known as Café Viennois (Vienna coffee), was renamed Café Liégeois (Coffee from Liège) due to the state of war with Austria-Hungary. This appellation is still in use today, mainly for ice-creams (chocolat liégeois and café liegeois).
• Germany: In 1915, after Italy entered World War I, restaurants in Berlin stopped serving Italian salad.
• Greece: Ellinikos kafes ("Greek coffee") replaced Turkikos kafes ("Turkish coffee") on Greek menus after the 1974 Cyprus crisis.^[4]
• Iran: During the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, several Iranian groups advocated changing the name of Danish pastry to "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad".^[5][6]
• New Zealand: In 1998, while the French government was testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific, French loaves were renamed Kiwi loaves in a number of supermarkets and bakeries. This, however, does not appear to have been as extensively reported or publicized as anti-French sentiment in the United States. However, French Fries at a few family restaurants were renamed Kiwi fries, or just "Fries", which was already an established term. New Zealanders, however, generally use the British English word "chips".
• Russia: During World War I, Saint Petersburg was renamed 'Petrograd', amounting effectively to a translation of the name from German to Russian.
• Spain: After the triumph of Francisco Franco, filete imperial ("imperial beef") became a euphemism for filete ruso ("Russian beef"), "ensaladilla nacional" ("national salad") for "ensaladilla rusa" (Russian salad) and Caperucita Encarnada ("Little Red Riding Hood") for Caperucita Roja (which has the same meaning but loses its hypothetical connotations).
• Turkey: Russian salad became American salad because of the anti-Communist sentiment in the country.
• United Kingdom: During World War I, the German Shepherd was renamed the "Alsatian," and German biscuits were renamed Empire biscuits due to strong anti-German sentiment.
• United States: During World War I, the German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog, and the German measles were instead called liberty measles. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, freedom fries was a short-lived political euphemism for French fries, used by some to express their disapproval of the French opposition to the invasion.^[7]

Notes

1. ^ "Name - If some things never change, when did they begin?". Library and Archives Canada. 2004-02-04. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20080517152007/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/education/premiereguerre/05180204/0518020404_e.html. Retrieved 2008-02-20. 
2. ^ "Cyprus villagers make giant sweet". BBC News. 2004-10-18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3753928.stm. 
3. ^ Hérault, Irish (2010-01-31). "French playing cards and card stuff". irishherault.wordpress.com. http://irishherault.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/playing-cards-france-politics/. Retrieved 2010-11-22. 
4. ^ Robert Browning, Medieval and Modern Greek, 1983. ISBN 0521299780. p. 16
5. ^ "Iranians rename Danish pastries". BBC. 2006-02-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4724656.stm. Retrieved 2008-03-20. 
6. ^ "Iran targets Danish pastries". Associated Press. Al Jazeera. 2006-03-02. Archived from the original on 2006-12-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20061208031400/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=18788. Retrieved 2008-03-20. 
7. ^ "Over Here: World War I on the Home Front". Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=531. Retrieved 2006-07-12.