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Picking a food that doesn’t have a festival in the US would be harder than the other way around.
Rule 134: If a food exists, there’s an American festival of it. No exceptions.
I tried it, lutefisk does indeed have an American festival.
Potential character names:
I went to find this before realizing this was the reference!
Probably the deepest cut I’ve ever seen on The Simpsons.
Toad Bongzales would be a great stage name
Steve McDichael
Shown Furcotte
Bobson Dugnutt !
You know, for a bunch of made up names some of them sound both funny and kinda believable.
Bonzalez at least looks like an English->Japanese->English transliteration problem.
There are no finer names than Bobson Dugnutt and Dwigt Rortugal.
Bobson Dugnutt has always been my favorite. It sounds like a perfectly legitimate Western name, it just…isn’t. The Japanese equivalent would be something like Fujohiko Watashinze.
Mike Truck is my personal favourite.
Isn’t he a governor in Texas? Works closely with the very Biggest of Big Oil.
But what about all american county boy Todd Bonzales? Hes just a teenager in american high school who secretly had the power of Trucks and County Music and Cowboy Hat.
I like how the portrait of Karl Dandleton is a pretty girl
Also, the menu screen needs to say…
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SAVE (the children)
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LOAD (the gun)
i dont get it
Seems you need more America then…
where shall i aquire more of this “America” you speak of?
Do you have any oil? If you do it’ll find you.
Does olive oil count?
Sorry we’re fresh out over here as well. Hopefully back in stock in a few years.
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One of my favorite games is Earthbound, made by a Japanese company who made a game with a setting similar to America.
I want more JPRGs from an outsiders lens looking in.
They really captured it with police brutality and trashcan hamburgers.
Real talk, though, Earthbound is unique in that they hired a famous comedian to write it. Same for the other Mother games.
Startropics for the NES. It was made for American audiences and only sold and marketed outside Japan.
Not quite a JRPG but worth checking out if you haven’t heard of it.
Star Tropics is fantastic! I bought it used and it still has the letter in the box.
I legitimately want this
Japan failing to understand Western Culture is like… one of my favorite Bad Writing Tropes!
I love it when they try to give Christianity a magic system.
God I love Castlevania, but I gotta chuckle when I see things like Church Appointed Witches or the Catholic Church having Pan as an informant…
This thing has been reminding me it exists every few years for the past 2 decades.
My first time seeing it.
Japan as a whole utterly fails to comprehend what nuns are and it’s kind of hilarious when it pops up.
I need to go to the USA and actually try an American hamburger. Not a McDonald’s, a proper big fuck off freedom burger
Honestly there’s nothing like it. I’ve never had a European hamburger with the same taste and texture as a classic American burger–which I say totally independent of/not about quality. Euro burgers use a totally different grind that changes the density and flavor of the patty, and then of course the toppings and bun tend to be a bit different. Sort of like NYC pizza being relatively simple, but apparently impossible to 100% recreate in any other city, there’s nothing immediately notable about an American burger that you couldn’t do somewhere else, but it does still come out differently. I hope you get your chance to try one!
It’s way better than it used to be - 10 years ago I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly but finally places like Five Guys are making their mark on the big European cities and people have a better understanding of what a hamburger should taste like.
It’s still like 75/25 bad to good but it used to be 95/5 or worse.
Texan here. I’ve had some damn good hamburgers in my life, and I’ve been to numerous states. But the one of the best burgers I’ve ever had was in Luleå, Sweden at a place called Bastard Burgers. Specifically, you have to ask for them to add 3 pieces of Västerbottensoft crispy bites to the burger. It brought tears to my eyes just knowing I can’t get anything like that in Texas.
I’ve eaten pizza all across the United States and can confirm that there is absolutely nothing special about New York pizza. If the minerals in the water actually change anything, it’s imperceptible when covered with cheese. Most of my visits were with NY natives so I was not eating at tourist traps.
I can say that American food kind of sucks in every Asian country I’ve been to^1 but I have never been to Europe, though, so I didn’t know how the phenomena compare.
^1 Most of my international trips have been for work so I may not have gone to the “good” American restaurants
[Edit] how do I superscript on Lemmy? ^1 is supposed to be a footnote
As a pizza enthusiast who’s lived in NY, Chicago, and multiple foreign countries, I have to disagree. I don’t think it’s the water like people say, though NYC’s filtration system is completely unique, but you’ve got thousands of people all trying to perfect a similar style within a few square miles of each other, all within a city that has a very different culture and economy than any other in the US.
I think that that culture and competition alone lead folks to develop traditions and techniques that don’t happen elsewhere, and I think it’s also likely a commerce thing. NYC has the foot traffic to support dozens of shops making dozens of 24-inch pizzas, cooking them 65%, and then finishing them to order in a 700⁰ oven that stays preheated all day. Size of the pizza affects how the crust cooks, how they use the oven affects the even heating and final texture, along with a number of other tiny variables that only really make sense to do that way when running a counter service booth for 15 million people.
Much thin crust pizza is similar enough, but I think folks who taste no difference between NY style pizza in and outside the city are probably not putting their full palate into it, and are probably just hungry for/happy with anything with bread, tomato, and cheese. And hey, fair game.
Sounds like we agree that the water is doing nothing! It’s all about the restaurant making it.
I’ve had great pizza in New York and awful pizza in New York but the same goes for the other cities I’ve visited/lived in. My favorite standard topping pizza is actually from a restaurant in a suburb
All those variables that go into making a successful counter service booth for 15 million people might actually make the pizza quality worse than somewhere else where people have more time to get things right. Like, parbaking a pizza doesn’t improve it over just baking it fresh?
It’s the ingredients, the beef just tastes different. Even Canadian beef and American beef taste different.
As someone who’s spent half his life in the US and the other half in Europe, the best burgers I’ve had have all been in Europe. It became a fad here starting about 10 years ago and now we have some really top notch places.
Meh. As an American, Big burgers are overrated. A bar might serve you a good burger. But the best burgers imo are the ones you grill at home.
Also, maybe this is the FREEDOM speaking, but does your country have the ingredients to make a burger?
Maybe the burger buns might be the hardest to find.
It was a tongue in cheek comment haha. Yeah I’ve had lots of tasty burgers at home, but if I visited the states I would definitely be checking out the best restaurants in whatever place I happened to be visiting. Maybe eventually! :)
As an American, do it. Seriously I don’t eat meat anymore but when you said this I started craving a giant fucking black bean burger with all my preferred fixings and enough fries to concern a cardiologist. Ooh and maybe a glass of my preferred bourbon to go with it.
I may be some metric using socialist pescatarian but there are parts of this country that I feel deep in my soul and my cardiac tissue.
in Hamburg, PA
Perfection.
Bros just stole that from Hamburg, Germany
We won it in the war.
After operation Gomorrah the burgers might have been a bit overdone.
These people aren’t even obese.
Not a JRPG, but you guys need to check out Metal Wolf Chaos. It’s a game where the president uses a giant robot to save America from a rebel army led by the vice president. It was originally released as an Xbox exclusive and only in Japan, but there was a remaster for PS4, Xbox One, and PC that was released worldwide. Also, it was developed by FromSoftware.
Also y’all need to check out Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. No relation to the conversation, it’s just hella fun.
I like Conan Exiles
I’m so curious about this. It sounds awesome.
To be fair, this was a pretty safe bet.
Why WOULDN’T it be real? I remember many years ago I saw a trivia fact that said around 50% of all restaurants in the United States had hamburger on the menu? Maybe that changed (it was a late 90s/ early 2000s trivia fact) but hamburger is still super common and popular.
Not to mention it’s in a town called Hamburg. What city council that wants to get reelected wouldn’t want a self-promoting festival called "Hamburg"er? Notice, they didn’t call it the cheeseburger festival.
Inside this view of America there are two wolves:
You can kind of make up anything about America and find it to be true.
Even Americans are amazed at our own ingenuity.
Well duh but let’s not pretend that Japan doesn’t have Sushi festivals.
hell I have those at my local mall and I don’t even live in Japan
Emily Freedom needs her own show on Food Network, “What could be more America?”
