A burger big enough to make even Akagi pause... for all of five seconds.

today i saw something i would never forget, for on this day i saw Doubt i the eyes of the one known as the Gluttonous Fiend when confronted by american cuisine.

Rimuru said:

today i saw something i would never forget, for on this day i saw Doubt i the eyes of the one known as the Gluttonous Fiend when confronted by american cuisine.

She got over it pretty fast. Plus, isn't that a Japanese restaurant?

Bummed there isn't a calorie count there for reference.

Arael said:

Bummed there isn't a calorie count there for reference.

I think the count is "a lot" or "enough to fill Akagi's calorie demands for the day".

I mean, look at that nervous smile she's got. Or maybe it's a disbelieving one.

I feel fat looking at that thing. Am I suppose to eat it or climb up the side of it?

This thing has 1 kg of meat in it. That's 2.2 lbs. Pure insanity.

I've seen the restaurant where they serve this, I have no idea how someone would eat all of that.

Looks like something from Epic Meal Time.

Americans are crazy? That may be, but it pales in comparison to starting a world war over nothing. America can only wish it was as crazy as Japan.

Fenir said:

I've seen the restaurant where they serve this, I have no idea how someone would eat all of that.

It's not hard to make large portions of anything. If anything, it is probably more of a promotional thing to draw in curious customers. That said, thick burgers are pointless past the size wider than your mouth. If you can't get all the flavors in each bite, then it feels more like eating a seasoned patty since it basically is open faced from there on.

GoldSaw said:

Americans are crazy? That may be, but it pales in comparison to starting a world war over nothing. America can only wish it was as crazy as Japan.

I wouldn't say Japan started the war over nothing. They wanted to expand territory, so they did. We didn't like that so we withdrew support. They didn't like that so they attacked us. We didn't like that so we beat them up and nuked them. It's a pretty simple exchange.

See also: post #2564311 by Kirisawa Juuzou

Jarlath said:

A burger big enough to make even Akagi pause... for all of five seconds.

Looks like 2 burgers with a 2nd on top of the 1st one...

79248cm/s said:

I wouldn't say Japan started the war over nothing. They wanted to expand territory, so they did. We didn't like that so we withdrew support. They didn't like that so they attacked us. We didn't like that so we beat them up and nuked them. It's a pretty simple exchange.

It's a little more nuanced than that...

The basic problem most people have with understanding international politics is keeping in mind that the primary audience of any government is always its own people. People on the outside always look at nations as though it's one unified entity, and tend to ignore the internal divisions because they're hard to see.

Japan's leadership wanted desperately to avoid a war they knew they couldn't really win, but at the same time, were pushed by their own internal forces to bluster and braggadocio. Leaders of militant nations always need to portray strength towards their own people, even if it's farcical bullshit. (See, for example, the propaganda of Baghdad Bob during the Invasion of Iraq.) They will always choose pushing their nation into a war they can't win over looking weak to their own people, since the former at least delays their being pulled out of power. And never forget, staying in power is always the primary goal of these sorts, and the wellbeing of their nation is a secondary concern, at best. Add onto this a decentralized power structure, where people with limited purviews and understanding have an ability to impact national policy, and you create real problems. (For example, the shipyard town's mayor will push for more shipbuilding completely regardless of the situation, and if war means more orders for his town's shipyards, then all the better, so let's push for war! Can we win, and what will it cost? Who knows, who cares! That's not MY problem!)

Let me just copy-paste the inside-the-cover synopsis from a book I have on the subject:

"Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy" by Eri Hotta said:

When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western readers, and barely explored in depth in Japan itself, Hotta poses an essential question: Why did these men--military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor--put their country and its citizens so unnecessarily in harm's way? Introducing us to the doubters, schemers, and would-be patriots who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan rarely glimpsed--eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by reckless militarism couched in traditional notions of pride and honor, tempted by the gambler's dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable.

In an intimate account of the increasingly heated debates and doomed diplomatic overtures preceding Pearl Harbor, Hotta reveals just how divided Japan's leaders were, right up to (and, in fact, beyond) their eleventh-hour decision to attack. We see a ruling cadre rich in regional ambition and hubris: many of the same leaders seeking to avoid war with the United States continued to adamantly advocate Asian expansionism, hoping to advance, or at least maintain, the occupation of China that began in 1931, unable to end the second Sino-Japanese War and unwilling to acknowledge Washington's hardening disapproval of their continental incursions. Even as Japanese diplomats continued to negotiate with the Roosevelt administration, Matsuoka Yosuke, the egomaniacal foreign minister who relished paying court to both Stalin and Hitler, and his facile supporters cemented Japan's place in the fascist alliance with Germany and Italy--unaware (or unconcerned) that in so doing they destroyed the nation's bona fides with the West.

We see a dysfunctional political system in which military leaders reported to both the civilian government and the emperor, creating a structure that facilitated intrigues and stoked a jingoistic rivalry between Japan's army and navy. Roles are recast and blame reexamined as Hotta analyzes the actions and motivations of the hawks and skeptics among Japan's elite. Emperor Hirohito and General Hideki Tojo are newly appraised as we discover how the two men fumbled for a way to avoid war before finally acceding to it.

Hotta peels back seventy years of historical mythologizing--both Japanese and Western--to expose all-too-human Japanese leaders torn by doubt in the months preceding the attack, more concerned with saving face than saving lives, finally drawn into war as much by incompetence and lack of political will as by bellicosity. An essential book for any student of the Second World War, this compelling reassessment will forever change the way we remember those days of infamy.

Jarlath said:

A burger big enough to make even Akagi pause... for all of five seconds.

Meh.

Give her the Behemoth Burger from NYC's Bowlmor Lanes and see how long she'll pause...

79248cm/s said:

It's not hard to make large portions of anything. If anything, it is probably more of a promotional thing to draw in curious customers. That said, thick burgers are pointless past the size wider than your mouth. If you can't get all the flavors in each bite, then it feels more like eating a seasoned patty since it basically is open faced from there on.

I wouldn't say Japan started the war over nothing. They wanted to expand territory, so they did. We didn't like that so we withdrew support. They didn't like that so they attacked us. We didn't like that so we beat them up and nuked them. It's a pretty simple exchange.

And you lost to the VietCong, Got your Twin Towers crashing down, A raid at the Capitol because of a orange president and lost to the Afghans.

US received more than Japan can take.

HamonYamaguchi said:

And you lost to the VietCong, Got your Twin Towers crashing down, A raid at the Capitol because of a orange president and lost to the Afghans.

US received more than Japan can take.

More? Japan was bombed twice, by comparison of their small country taking 2 big hits, US damages was but a small scar.