I agree with the others; this is one of your priceless ones!

When my husband and I were first dating, we’d see his parents on Saturday nights. As his mom isn’t too keen on cooking, having done it for a family of 7 for decades, I would make supper out of what I could find in her fridge. Always an adventure, usually edible.

Might I also suggest “Trailer Park Boys” as Canada’s contribution to sleaze TV? It’s a mocumentary of the low-life schemers in a Maritime trailer park. In the UK, they have Coronation Street, a long-running soap opera about working class people.

You are right; one of the reasons so many US shows show the wealthy is that the size of the rooms makes lighting and shooting much easier. At least it started out that way. Now, my guess is that posh surroundings are expected.

In the UK, there are many more dramas, good and bad, set in more humble circumstances where the woman are not all babes and the men not all movie star handsome. I like that better.

But, back to your post: you did a good ‘un.

Lorraine

My guess: They can’t fit all that camera equipment into trailer houses.

No, they keep bumping into the camera crews from COPS. (Got home from work last week and there were FOUR law enforcement vehicles parked in front of the trailer down the street. Usually it’s a county cruiser every other month; this time it was three county SUVs and a State Police one.)

I like your show idea. I’d suggest adding a bit of chance: one contestant chosen at random gets to use the grill out back instead of the fire hazard range in the kitchen. Also, I’d like to see a variant (maybe call it Appalachian Iron Chef) where the “secret ingredient” is whatever the kids managed to catch, trap, or shoot that day. If you’re lucky you get catfish; if you’re not you get possum.

Dave

I was working from my kitchen/refrigerators over the years, actually….

d

However, I DO have bacon grease and you can cook just about anything with that. It’s the redneck secret ingredient.