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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.
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 !
Bonzalez at least looks like an English->Japanese->English transliteration problem.
You know, for a bunch of made up names some of them sound both funny and kinda believable.
I like how the portrait of Karl Dandleton is a pretty girl
There are no finer names than Bobson Dugnutt and Dwigt Rortugal.
Mike Truck is my personal favourite.
Isn’t he a governor in Texas? Works closely with the very Biggest of Big Oil.
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.
Emily Freedom needs her own show on Food Network, “What could be more America?”
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.
And a Day of Celebration recognized by Congress.
I tried it, lutefisk does indeed have an American festival.
You’re not kidding. This is what I use to plan my summers
Uh… capers?
Aww, Australia has one, why cant we?
https://www.threeblueducks.com/caper-festival-opening-night/
Prove that capers are food.
They’re sold in grocery stores on the food aisle?
lol @ “the food aisle.”
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
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.
what game is this?
Inside this view of America there are two wolves:
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.
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!
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.
The city I grew up in is home to the “world’s largest” Bratfest. The sell close to 300k brats every year (and it’s hosted in a city with a population of about 280k!)
Wisconsin gets fucking serious about their German sausages. There’s a joint down from y’all’s state capital that used to serve a pretty good cheddarwurst but it’s been a few years since I’ve been.
Are all the fests now just corporate greed and overpriced subpar options of the normal thing?
They are here at least. Poutine fest…ugh…like $16 for a medium and anywhere else is like $6-$9 outside of the fest.
Ribfest…holy crap, 1 beef rib. They wanted $20 for ONE RIB. not a rack, literally a single rib. Sauce is paintbrushes on after so it never gets caramelized. Overall garbage.
The fests I’ve been to have been overpriced but that’s mostly because they’re food truck pricing. They aren’t so much corporate as they’re organized by the city, or a non profit, and so on. Like, imagine an organization that promotes Asian cultures having a Asian food fest.
Long ago, my wife was a waitress at a mom and pop restaurant that once participated in the other end of a community event and they sold it about the same as usual, but had a limited menu for things that could be cooked in portably. Great food, but we’re talking 16 bucks for fries covered in Okinawan pork belly prepped in advance.
The better prices I mentioned for the poutine are from chiptrucks. I don’t ever get poutine at a restaurant. It’s always grated cheese and not real squeeky curd.
The chocolate one, maybe? I don’t remember who owns the factory in Oakdale and I haven’t been in a few years anyway. And the state fair is fairly commercialized. The rest of the food festivals are all pretty much just local events with not a corporate sponsor in sight.
I mean, that seems about normal for beef ribs. One rib is a whole meal, the BBQ place near me calls them “Dino Ribs”. The sauce thing is crazy though.
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.
You can kind of make up anything about America and find it to be true.
Even Americans are amazed at our own ingenuity.
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.
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There’s also a cheeseburger festival. I happened upon it a decade ago while traveling.
Jesus. Used to just be like 50 cents to add cheese. Now I’ve gotta drive all the way to Michigan??
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.
To be fair, this was a pretty safe bet.
