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Doesn't matter to me if an author uses British English or American English.
American English has many colloquilisms.
Chili is the food which is meat cooked in a sauce with hot peppers. Sauce added after cooking is not chili. Chili doesn't have beansi n it, regardless of what those living outside the US Southwest claim. Macaroni in chili turns it into chili-mac, not chili.
Seeing chili with extra ingredients in it being sold as chili is like seeing a cake with a station wagon added to the ingredients. It just doesn't work.
Nor is grilled food barbecue. Grilling is grilling, barbecue is barbecue. They are not the same method.
As for word patterns. i.e. colloquilisms.
In New Orleans you don't go buy groceries, you 'make groceries'.
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