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I’ve been to multiple hamburger festivals in Japan
Japan is heavily Americanized.
Show me the Hamburger Party in Hamburg.
That’s awesome, and only a six hour drive! I’m even familiar with that area from previous road trips. I’ll have to put it on the list for next year
I’m only five hrs from the Cheeseburger festival in Caseville, MI and I’m a fan of the area. Summer can’t come soon enough!
Close to 16 hours for me. That’s a bit far for a cheeseburger
That sounds pretty awesome, wish I had done that at some point in my life.
Okay I admit it was the same one, but in a different year. It was still awesome.
Also you should still go!You can tell I’m American because I have my last meals lined up as Tacos for dinner, Cranberry and Orange muffins for breakfast the next day, and a double steak burger with cheese for my final lunch and call it a life haha. Maybe I’ll put an egg on one of the burgers with a runny yolk. Haven’t decided yet. If your going to die, no reason to go out healthy. (Manicotti was for the previous days haha)
Of those food items only the burger is unqualified bad. The tacos…well bread isn’t bad in and of itself, and a taco is just flour or corn bread. A fruit muffin doesn’t have to be bad – if it was a 1000 calorie whole foods muffin, sure, but otherwise just carbs and fruit. Eggs are high in protein and vitamins. But then you had the double griddle-fried 70/30 fatty burger charred to a cancer-inducing crisp.
How much does charred food actually increase risk of cancer? And what type of cancer?
For some reason smokey slightly burnt food tastes really good to me and I’m not going to stop eating it.
80/20 smash burgers. If I cook on a grill I don’t care as much about it being higher fat as the fat drips down, but smashing them on a stove top I go less., then I strain the fat off the flat pan I use and put it aside in a glass jar, to reuse when making something I want more flavor in. Same with if I ever make bacon, place it on a sheet pan, bake and strain off into a jar. I use the bacon one for vegetables like asparagus, because otherwise I honestly don’t care for asparagus on its own flavor. Broccoli, cauliflower, green beans and such don’t need flavor added, but sometimes the mood hits you.
Not the healthiest, but there are worse things than vegatables you like in life haha
Asparagus is an excellent vehicle for butter and salt.
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?
Sorry we’re fresh out over here as well. Hopefully back in stock in a few years.
Do you have any oil? If you do it’ll find you.
Does olive oil count?
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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.
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.
The cheeseburger was invented in the rival neighbouring city of Cheeseburg.
I wish this was true.
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.
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…
Japan as a whole utterly fails to comprehend what nuns are and it’s kind of hilarious when it pops up.
This thing has been reminding me it exists every few years for the past 2 decades.
Christianity takes in Japan is wild. It was an underground religion for a few centuries, which always makes things fun.
To be fair it was an underground religion in the west for a while too
Honestly, NGE’s version of the Rapture/Eternity/Fanta wasn’t even that bad.
Potential character names:
I like how the portrait of Karl Dandleton is a pretty girl
There are no finer names than Bobson Dugnutt and Dwigt Rortugal.
But what about all american county boy Todd Bonzales? Hes just a teenager in american high school who secretly had the power of Trucks and County Music and Cowboy Hat.
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.
Mike Truck is my personal favourite.
Isn’t he a governor in Texas? Works closely with the very Biggest of Big Oil.
I went to find this before realizing this was the reference!
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.
Toad Bongzales would be a great stage name
Steve McDichael
Shown Furcotte
Bobson Dugnutt !
Probably the deepest cut I’ve ever seen on The Simpsons.
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.
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.”
I tried it, lutefisk does indeed have an American festival.
You’re not kidding. This is what I use to plan my summers
And a Day of Celebration recognized by Congress.
There’s also a cheeseburger festival. I happened upon it a decade ago while traveling.
There’s a town called Cheeseburg?
Jesus. Used to just be like 50 cents to add cheese. Now I’ve gotta drive all the way to Michigan??
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.
in Hamburg, PA
Perfection.
Bros just stole that from Hamburg, Germany
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.
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.
It’s the ingredients, the beef just tastes different. Even Canadian beef and American beef taste different.
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.
It’s not a proper American burger without Kraft singles.
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.
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.
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It can’t be sold as cheese, even in America. No, that’s not how it works.
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! :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
