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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
As we all did in the UK I grew up on lots of American tv and they just plain made shit up. I’m not surprised that it’s constantly memed about by people who don’t know what it is, because I’d see Americans putting on bad accents talking about stuff like “boiled pig knuckles and cabbage guvna”. 

Don’t know how true it is but I’ve heard that it was spread by American GI’s stationed here in WWII. I can understand midwestern boys who are used to grass fed steak not liking the food (or anyone for that matter) because they were visiting a war torn island who were *being* *starved* and had to make do with what little they had.

Edit: Every time this comes up I get the urge to cook you all a full hobbit meal with traditional comfort food. Probably a sunday roast with yorkshire puddings, goosefat potatoes and gravy (more or less a thanksgiving lunch, with beef pork or chicken) and a small ploughmans lunch (cured meats, spiced chutneys, a hunk of bread and a selection of cheeses, the cheese here is great) 

Finish off with scones, clotted cream and jam, or a selection of cakes, we do great cakes. 

The kind of stuff I want to eat in a cottage when it’s raining outside, with a LOTR marathon
gpt
Now that we have a lot of British shows, both old and new, on channels like BritBox we get to see the same sort of thing. Even modern shows, they just make it up. Everything from how US government works to how our schools are organized are commonly either completely un-researched or based on what must be the cultural stereotypes typical of the British towards Americans. This includes what and how we eat and even to what travel is like in the US. American accents are often horrible when affected by a British actor...their idea of southern accents are especially bad. It's most hilarious when they use an actual American actor and they're mouthing some of the dumbest shit that they must know is wrong. And so many writers just don't get how big America is...one plot had a character going from New York to Dallas and back in one day by car. Just hilarious.

But here's the funny thing: even American shows make the same screw-ups about American institutions. I can expect British shows do the same about British institutions. Point is...don't use any TV show as a yardstick to judge anybody. They're the product of the writers', producers', directors' and actors' biases and laziness and simply a desire to move a plot forward.... nothing more.