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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* When the characters on ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' want fine dining, they tend to go to a local restaurant whose waiter always insults them. When one of the boys takes a girl there for a dinner date, they end up just ordering salads because they can't afford anything else.
* The [[Cooking Show]] ''The French Chef'', featuring Julia Child, both invoked and attempted to subvert this trope. It reinforced the association between cooking and France, however the message of the show was that ordinary Americans could prepare French cuisine at home.<ref>Perhaps ironically, a great deal of what Julia Child cooked on TV was in fact French home cooking, albeit a little dated and pre-WWII in style. Heavy duty restaurant cuisine was a rarity (mostly limited to pressed duck and a number of rather elaborate cakes) and every once in a while she drifted into street food like pizza, crepes, and the decidedly non-French original Caesar salad.</ref>
* In ''[[In Death|Indulgence In Death]]'', one victim is a famous "French" chef who was actually born in Kansas.
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