[bee_rider]

We generally mock wine-snobbery. There’s some element of stereotyping French things as pretentious. But mostly it is because that’s the brand of wine that is known by everybody to be fancy. (Hey, stereotyping is bad, but on the other hand we don’t mistake any British food for fancy, so at least there’s some begrudging respect built into the stereotype).

So really, congrats to Champagne for making a brand so well known that Wayne’s World can make fun of it and be sure that basically the whole audience will get the joke. I mean that sincerely.

You have to know a little bit about wine to know about Napa Valley. I think “it’s from NaPa Valllleeyyy” in a sort of silly voice is something that somebody might say. It just doesn’t have the reach.

I would think of this as not really making fun of Champagne. We’re making fun of being the kind of person that cares about Champagne.

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The British food thing is I think less about respect or fanciness and more familiarity. American staples tend to have similar ratios of various nutrient groups, often without even as much as a substitute. American "home-style" cooking is almost identical in a lot of respects, if we ignore regional variations in both countries.

So I think its less that we think French cuisine is fancy or British food is bad, and more that we don't even really think about British food because a British Christmas dinner is basically the same as an American one (and I've got no clue what a French person would eat for Christmas dinner, so it is exotic and expensive sounding in that respect).

Of course all of this mostly applies to everyone in any anglosphere country. I don't think an Australian would be any more uncomfortable eating a home cooked American meal than an American would be eating a British one.