[ SECRET POST #6722 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6722 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if there's a term for it, too - something more specific than a literary device crutch or similar.

I once beta'ed a fic where I had to (REPEATEDLY!!!) tell the author that the custom of afternoon tea in the UK didn't start until like... the late 1800s? So no, people in medieval England didn't sit down in the afternoon with a plate of scones, clotted cream and jam, cucumber sandwiches and pastry with a big ol' pot of tea because THEY DIDN'T DO THAT BACK THEN. British people today don't sit down and have scones and tea every single day, who's got the time for that? We're both Americans, but she had it in her head that British people = afternoon tea every day, and it's like her brain refused to compute that this wasn't necessarily the case. I think she was just reaching for a "hmmmm, how to show readers that the characters are British????" query and that's all she could come up with.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's an offshoot of what TVTropes calls "Flanderization"?

(https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization for those who aren't familiar)

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, sort of Flanderization of a culture, I guess? I've seen "British people drinking tea all the time" as a complaint of American-written fanfics in Sherlock fandom as well as Harry Potter, so it tracks.

[(Anonymous)]

The only people over here that can do afternoon tea on not just llthe weekends are retired pensioners, otherwise the rest of us are too busy working or they have kids to look after lol.