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Best i can tell it shows up most often in westerns, or when a character is supposed to be from a remote rural area.

Sounds like the result of a "too-direct" translation from Danish (maybe German too?). "Hvad dette her stof behøver er noget hydrogenperoxid"

There's a bit of German influence on American English, that's true, like 'how goes?'. Also Dutch, as in 'How come?'