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

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    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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    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.

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      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!
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        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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          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!)

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            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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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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          Man I just camped at Sleeper State Park in October, it’s right next to Caseville, MI on the lake. That whole campground turns into a Halloween festival for the month, it’s awesome. I bet those people do the cheeseburger festival right too. The only downside I see is I have to wait until Summer for it!

          I will note though, that the cheeseburger festival isn’t in Hamburg.

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

    Even Americans are amazed at our own ingenuity.

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    Also, the menu screen needs to say…

    • SAVE (the children)

    • LOAD (the gun)

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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.

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      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.

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      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.