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KD Since: May, 2009
6th Mar, 2021 08:27:37 PM

If someone called attention to it, like "Fries? What are fries? We only sell chips here." then it might be Separated by a Common Language.

If it passes by without comment, then that's a much tougher call in terms of tropes. If there is no British English used anywhere, you might get away with calling it Translation Convention (they're speaking British English, we hear it as American English). There's also the possibility of Viewers Are Morons (if the executives in charge believed the target audience could not understand that the British call that particular food "chips").

STARCRUSHER99 (Captain)
6th Mar, 2021 08:38:20 PM

For that particular example, there's We All Live in America

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
6th Mar, 2021 08:50:52 PM

It also makes a difference if she was ordering what some British people/restaurants call fries (skinny fast-food-style fries) as opposed to what you'd get with fish and chips, which are more toward what we call steak fries or home fries in the US.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
6th Mar, 2021 11:32:07 PM

^ They never show us on screen what she got because the plot moves on from there, so I couldn't tell you. It does pass by without comment though.

We All Live in America might count.

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Unsung Since: Jun, 2016
7th Mar, 2021 12:05:41 AM

I don't know a lot about the show, but could she have picked it up from the American in the cast?

Edited by Unsung
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