You can't underestimate America

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.

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.

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.
- You're not kidding. This is what I use to plan my summers
- And a Day of Celebration recognized by Congress.
- Uh... capers?

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
- 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.
- Mike Truck is my personal favourite.
- 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.
I like how the portrait of Karl Dandleton is a pretty girl

Also, the menu screen needs to say...

SAVE (the children)
LOAD (the gun)

i dont get it
- Seems you need more America then...

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.
- 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.
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.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

in Hamburg, PA

Perfection.

Bros just stole that from Hamburg, Germany

These people aren't even obese.

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
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!

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 regret to inform you

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.