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Spine-tingling jazz, yes. Thrilling tales of gunfights and adventure under vast skies, of course. Big hats. Soap operas dripping with diamonds and greed. The Deep South of America is the natural home of all these.
But not cuisine. Heading to the former Confederate states in search of delicious food, as Bake Off's Nadiya Hussain did in her American Adventure (BBC1), is like taking a rocket ship to Mars to sample its party atmosphere. She was there for the wrong reason.
The locals were proud of their specialities, naturally, and it took a nine-year-old named Lola to warn us how bad it really was.