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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Potential character names:

[–] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Toad Bongzales would be a great stage name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Steve McDichael

Shown Furcotte

Bobson Dugnutt !

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

in Hamburg, PA

Perfection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Bros just stole that from Hamburg, Germany

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

We won it in the war.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

And a Day of Celebration recognized by Congress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

These people aren't even obese.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Also y'all need to check out Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. No relation to the conversation, it's just hella fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I like Conan Exiles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I'm so curious about this. It sounds awesome.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

Inside this view of America there are two wolves:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

what game is this?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Star Tropics is fantastic! I bought it used and it still has the letter in the box.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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

Even Americans are amazed at our own ingenuity.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

It’s the ingredients, the beef just tastes different. Even Canadian beef and American beef taste different.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

That just makes it a cheeseburger, without the singles what you've got is a hamburger

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Normally I'm a little more picky about my food recommendations, but I fully agree.

It's a texture thing, it's not so much about the flavor the cheese adds as it is that sort of drippy, plasticy smoothness.

I understand people that prefer cheddar or whatever, and that's fine, but it really is completely different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

American cheese does that. Kraft Singles are not cheese, but American cheese is actual cheese, and it does the melt all over thing that you're looking for. This is about the one thing it's good for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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! :)

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