It looks like Republicans are making a quiet retreat from the issue of 'freedom fries' (Washington Times):

The fries on Capitol Hill are French again. So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom." Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names to get back at the French for snubbing the coalition of the willing in Iraq, congressmen don't even want to talk about french fries, which are actually native to Belgium, and toast.

While some members of Congress were downplaying the story, Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone's National Affairs Daily finds some insight in the abandonment of the 'freedom fries' moniker:

Over at The Plank Michael Crowley finds hidden meaning in the retreat from the preening arrogance of "freedom fries":

As a symbolic, almost literary device, it's hard to imagine something that could capture the arc of Bush/DeLay-era Capitol Hill more perfectly than this stunt. Back when the House cafeterias changed their menus in March 2003, House Republicans enjoyed near-total power and displayed an arrogance to match. But a few years later, look at what's happened: The war that the French opposed has turned out to be a disaster. The initial proponent of the menu switch, North Carolina Republican Walter Jones, has since said Iraq was invaded "with no justification," and displays faces of U.S. soldiers killed in action outside his office.