I've seen a few listicles on the theme over the years, but I wonder if some dogged academic has ever gone to the trouble of seriously cataloguing the various Am

I've seen a few listicles on the theme over the years, but I wonder if some dogged academic has ever gone to the trouble of seriously cataloguing the various American traditions that are essentially just wildly successful corporate marketing campaigns targeted at prior generations. Charcoal grills, diamond engagement rings, green bean casserole, the Pledge of Allegiance, chocolate-chip cookies, etc.. I'd hope that we also have at least a few that were straight-up parody/mockery of the corporations, in the same spirit as the expression "pie in the sky" entering the popular lexicon via a leftist parody of a Christian hymn [1]. Perhaps someday an Nth cousin M-times-removed of Guillermo del Toro, Hideo Kojima, or Stephanie Sterling will be moved by the spirit of tradition to utter something like "we gather here today in the halls walked by our forefathers, to proclaim as they proclaimed, 'fuck Konami'" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preacher_and_the_Slave