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I think this trope should be added to NoRealLifeExamplesPlease for morality reasons. MonstrousCannibalism is technically meant to describe a fictional species as AlwaysChaoticEvil, and much of what is described in the Real Life section is more along the lines of BlueAndOrangeMorality.
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I think this trope should be added to Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease for morality reasons. MonstrousCannibalism is technically meant to describe a fictional species as AlwaysChaoticEvil, and much of what is described in the Real Life section is more along the lines of BlueAndOrangeMorality.
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what America knows as the Snickers bar was originally marketed in Britain as the Marathon Bar. When the (ultimately American owned) company involved tried to standardise the product name across all its national operations and said it should be the Snickers bar everywhere (which is not unreasonable), this became a real point of resentment in Britain. It was seen as an act of American cultural imperialism and an act of pissing about with British icons (despite the fact the Marathon bar was an import from the USA and had to be differently named here beause of some copyright issue or other). Like the thing with Opal Fruit/Starburst, this is one of those issues that can provoke the British to be anti-American. \
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what America knows as the Snickers bar was originally marketed in Britain as the Marathon Bar. When the (ultimately American owned) company involved tried to standardise the product name across all its national operations and said it should be the Snickers bar everywhere (which is not unreasonable), this became a real point of resentment in Britain. It was seen as an act of American cultural imperialism and an act of pissing about with British icons (despite the fact the Marathon bar was an import from the USA and at the start, it had to be differently named here because of some copyright issue or other). Like the thing with Opal Fruit/Starburst, this is one of those issues that can provoke the British to be anti-American. \\\"Don\\\'t fuck with our sweeties, Yank.\\\" The American owners of Cadbury\\\'s have yet to realise this. (current issues with their fucking about with British chocolate and experimenting with turning it into Hersheys. Yeccch.)
