A How To on Deli Ordering

[Jester]

Hubby is from east Texas, and we were both scratching our heads at the veritable desert on the screen.

Classic example of Hollywood geography, I guess.

Oh, let me TELL you!

"Raising Arizona." Great movie. Set in Tempe, Arizona. Suburb of Phoenix. Almost all outdoor shots where Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter's trailer are imply they are out in the boonies in the desert. Which means it can't be in Tempe, as Tempe is full-fledged suburb to all corners, as it is the only municipality in the Valley of the Sun that is land-locked and therefore has no more "boonies" left in it. Oddly, this mistake is not noted by imdb.com.

Imdb DID note, however, the erroneous accent employed by most of the characters, which is Deep Southern. No one in Arizona that is not a Southern transplant speaks like that. While there are people in Arizona that do have Western drawls, the more severe ones are generally of those people who live out in the boonies, not in Tempe, which is a suburb of Phoenix, often called the "West's Most Midwestern Town."

Also, the recent movie "Fool's Gold" (which I did not see) apparently was set largely in Key West. In the movie, the island they're on has a large mountain in the middle of it. There is not a mountain IN FLORIDA, and the highest point in Key West is 17 feet above sea level. In other words, that wasn't fucking Key West you saw on the screen.

There are certainly countless other examples of "convenient" geography by Hollywood, that no doubt most members of this forum who watch movies could cite.

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently the filmmakers botched not one, but two places. This is the first goof listed for "Fool's Gold" from imdb.com: "Errors in geography: Key West, Florida and the Bahamas are flat, not mountainous."

[vikingchyk]

Lessons in Ordering Lunch Meat

I've never gotten meat from the deli counter, because I'm afraid of messing up and making people mad at me I also have never used the fish counter, or talked to the butcher, same reason. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Hollywood Geography aside: I can get distracted by those inconsistencies, to the point it ruins my (and everyone else's) enjoyment of the show:
Me: "Eucalyptus trees don't grow in Virginia!"
DH: "Shhh!"
Me: "Well, they don't! #pout-seethe# How'm I supposed to get into this when they destroy any credibility arglebargle blah blahbity blah..."
#DH turns the sound up to drown me out#

[blondemarmot]

At vikingchyk: Don't worry! If you admit ignorance right away the clerk will be happy to walk you through the usual procedures, and then you'll be an old hand at it. (there's always the chance you'll get an ass, but that's life)

[Kogarashi]

I don't usually order from the deli, but that's because it's usually cheaper to get the pre-sliced pre-packaged stuff instead. But I've found that generally if you're patient and sympathetic and don't make any outrageous demands and actually listen to the employees, then you're good to go.

Oh, let me TELL you!

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TV does it pretty bad too. I saw an episode of A Haunting that supposedly took place in Connecticut, where I currently live. They had the whole dramatization to show the haunting going on, and at one point it was Christmas, or so the narrator claimed. Except that in the dramatization, family was visiting for the holiday while there were beautiful, green bushes, trees, and grass all over the place outside. This state is never that color at Christmastime. If there's no snow, then everything is brown and dead, not verdant. All I can figure is that they didn't want to wait until winter to film that part of the dramatization, nor did they want to try to fake it, so they just called it Christmas and left the lush foliage in.

[trailerparkmedic]

There was a short lived show on Fox called Lonestar or something. I caught the first few minutes of the first episode because my recording of House went long. I about died laughing when the guy drove past a highway sign saying "Houston 10 miles" while he was in lush, green fields. If you're 10 miles from downtown Houston, you're already inside one of the beltways. Houston suburbs start 30 or 40 miles out from the city.