France and Splenda. Conspiracy or just good friends?

It's a little blurry, but I was zoom lensing like a mad person to get this picture of a bunny hanging out at my house. I spotted him as I was going to work. I had my camera in my bag so I was moving very slooooowwwwly to get it out, put the batteries in and take a picture without scaring my little friend away. Yay bunnies!

This afternoon I got a phone call. It was a phone survey that started like this:

What do you think of France? Do you approve, disapprove or have no opinion?

I actually laughed and told the lady on the other end of the phone that I wasn't expecting that sort of question. I said approved because France seems to constantly get bitch slapped and two of my favorite film directors are French.

I think we went through 5 or 6 questions on France. What did I think of their president? What words would I use to describe the France? She listed off about 10 words (and one sentence) that I was supposed to choose from. By the time she got done listing my options, I'd forgotten half of them. Once I'd given her my word choices, the next question sent us off in another direction completely.

"Which of the following non-alcoholic beverages do you drink?"

Now, I was very confused. I was asked about seemingly every kind of soda, diet soda, juice, diet juice, tea, diet tea, bottled water, really pricey bottled water and energy drinks you could imagine. I was asked about Splenda, Equal, etc. I answered "no" to many questions. The whole time I was trying to figure out what France had to do with these drinks. Are they trying to gain a strong hold on the beverage market? Are they hoping Coke or Pepsi will sponsor a theme park to rival Euro Disney? Are the French creating Splenda and are they adding ingredients that will cause Americans to crave escargot?

When everything had been answered and the lady thanked me for my time, I asked her what France had to do with my drink preferences. All she said was they do surveys on many topics. Apparently they like to go with completely unrelated topics. I still wonder if there isn't some sort of greater truth to be found, maybe a greater conspiracy. I think I'll check for phone taps just in case, 'cuz once you give France a thumbs up, you are a marked girl.