Why do we call French people "Frogs"?

Question

Why do we call French people "Frogs"?

Answer 1

I've asked French people that, and the consensus seems to be that it's because some French people eat frog legs (btw... the French often call the English "les rosbifs").

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But I'm an American, and when I was a child my father used to bring bullfrogs home for my mother to cook... and I know we weren't the only family in the US to eat frog legs.

Answer 2

hum, well, I'm french and lived in France all my life and never eaten frogs...It's an old fashioned delicacy (it's frogs legs, by the way, cooked in butter) but hardly everyday fare ! By the way, I heard that the english eat chocolate covered ants ? Is that in anyway true ?

Answer 3

I don't call French people "Frogs".I call French people "Cheese Eating Serenader Monkeys".

Answer 4

Because they eat frogs

Answer 5

Because they do eat frogs! this fact still surprises people a lot.

Answer 6

I think it's beacuse the french language kind of sounds like a frog going "ribbit, ribbit"