another spiteful, but more literary expression is "perfide Albion" (perfidious England); <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
However, nowadays, I think this expression is more a second (or third ...) level joke, than a true vindictive one...

As for "froggies", I always assumed it was because frog legs are part of french gastronomie ...

now ... where the hell is the link between the various names we (english- and french- people) are using against each other and the red cellophane ????? <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />