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You can't underestimate America
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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.
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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!
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.
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.
Uh... capers?
Prove that capers are food.
They're sold in grocery stores on the food aisle?
lol @ "the food aisle."
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And a Day of Celebration recognized by Congress.
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.
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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.
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
As a pizza enthusiast who's lived in NY, Chicago, and multiple foreign countries, I have to disagree. I don't think it's the water like people say, though NYC's filtration system is completely unique, but you've got thousands of people all trying to perfect a similar style within a few square miles of each other, all within a city that has a very different culture and economy than any other in the US.
I think that that culture and competition alone lead folks to develop traditions and techniques that don't happen elsewhere, and I think it's also likely a commerce thing. NYC has the foot traffic to support dozens of shops making dozens of 24-inch pizzas, cooking them 65%, and then finishing them to order in a 700⁰ oven that stays preheated all day. Size of the pizza affects how the crust cooks, how they use the oven affects the even heating and final texture, along with a number of other tiny variables that only really make sense to do that way when running a counter service booth for 15 million people.
Much thin crust pizza is similar enough, but I think folks who taste no difference between NY style pizza in and outside the city are probably not putting their full palate into it, and are probably just hungry for/happy with anything with bread, tomato, and cheese. And hey, fair game.
Sounds like we agree that the water is doing nothing! It's all about the restaurant making it.
I've had great pizza in New York and awful pizza in New York but the same goes for the other cities I've visited/lived in. My favorite standard topping pizza is actually from a restaurant in a suburb
All those variables that go into making a successful counter service booth for 15 million people might actually make the pizza quality worse than somewhere else where people have more time to get things right. Like, parbaking a pizza doesn't improve it over just baking it fresh?
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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.
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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.
There's also a cheeseburger festival. I happened upon it a decade ago while traveling.
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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
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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.
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Emily Freedom needs her own show on Food Network, "What could be more America?"
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