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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 53 points 3 months ago

Just in my immediate area I could go to (when they're being held that is):

A peach festival, a garlic festival, a chocolate festival, the state fair which is like a giant stereotype all of its own, an apricot festival, a Sturgis satellite thing, classic car festival and tribute to American Graffiti fucking up traffic downtown, and so many more I haven't personally been to or even heard of, I'm sure.

We celebrate everything because then we have an excuse to party.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

That's what's great about Germans, they don't even look for a reason to have a festival.

Let's do a festival!

  • About what ? Music ? Dance ?
  • Irrelevant, we just bring tables and grills, there will be drinks and sausages!
[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I go to Wurstfest almost every year. I couldn't make it this year for personal reasons. I just love the fact that there's a whole festival about sausages. That's it. There's also plenty of beer, dancing, and music but mostly they just want you to put their sausage in your mouth.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 40 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

Picking a food that doesn't have a festival in the US would be harder than the other way around.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

Rule 134: If a food exists, there's an American festival of it. No exceptions.

[-] sulgoth@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I tried it, lutefisk does indeed have an American festival.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

Potential character names:

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

I went to find this before realizing this was the reference!

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Probably the deepest cut I've ever seen on The Simpsons.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Toad Bongzales would be a great stage name

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Steve McDichael

Shown Furcotte

Bobson Dugnutt !

[-] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

You know, for a bunch of made up names some of them sound both funny and kinda believable.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Bonzalez at least looks like an English->Japanese->English transliteration problem.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 months ago

There are no finer names than Bobson Dugnutt and Dwigt Rortugal.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Also, the menu screen needs to say...

  • SAVE (the children)

  • LOAD (the gun)

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 28 points 3 months ago

I need to go to the USA and actually try an American hamburger. Not a McDonald's, a proper big fuck off freedom burger

[-] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago

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!

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] parricc@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 3 months ago

bastard used to be great when it was just one restaurant. went there a lot in uni. then they got popular, and while i haven't been to the original place in like five years all their new locations are just... expensive and average.

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[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The biggest difference between a burger I’ve gotten in Europe and here in the USA is seasoning.

The beef talks here stateside.

Over in Europe they were OFTEN closer to a sausage patty.

https://meneersmakers.nl/ takes the cake as the best looking disappointment

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 3 months ago

It's not a proper American burger without Kraft singles.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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....

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Christianity takes in Japan is wild. It was an underground religion for a few centuries, which always makes things fun.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Japan as a whole utterly fails to comprehend what nuns are and it's kind of hilarious when it pops up.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

in Hamburg, PA

Perfection.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago

Bros just stole that from Hamburg, Germany

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago

These people aren't even obese.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

I've been to multiple hamburger festivals in Japan

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Japan is heavily Americanized.

Show me the Hamburger Party in Hamburg.

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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 months ago

You can kind of make up anything about America and find it to be true.

Even Americans are amazed at our own ingenuity.

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Inside this view of America there are two wolves:

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Well duh but let's not pretend that Japan doesn't have Sushi festivals.

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[-] nimble 10 points 3 months ago

There's also a cheeseburger festival. I happened upon it a decade ago while traveling.

[-] mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub 10 points 3 months ago

Jesus. Used to just be like 50 cents to add cheese. Now I've gotta drive all the way to Michigan??

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[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Emily Freedom needs her own show on Food Network, "What could be more America?"

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

what game is this?

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