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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also, the menu screen needs to say...
SAVE (the children)
LOAD (the gun)
in Hamburg, PA
Perfection.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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....
Christianity takes in Japan is wild. It was an underground religion for a few centuries, which always makes things fun.
Japan as a whole utterly fails to comprehend what nuns are and it's kind of hilarious when it pops up.
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.
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.
To be fair, this was a pretty safe bet.
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.
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??
Emily Freedom needs her own show on Food Network, "What could be more America?"
