/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>1813095

Never, ever underestimate the power of marketing. One single, solitary ad that didn't even have to do with razors was all it took to get women to start shaving their armpits and create an entirely new market for razor manufacturers in the process.

>>1813095
Macdonald's sells their foods reasonable prices in Japan. You may think it is ok, but this makes Japanese think foods of mac is so cheap. They make fun of them like "feed for pigs". Imo KFC do not want to be like mac. KFC uses high class chiken in Japan. Perhaps you know Kobe beef, like that, some chiken is famous, they use for their foods. and Japanese do not have the prejudice chiken is food for niggers.

>>1813167

Well, it's not so much convincing people food quality. It's that they managed to market their chicken as the logical substitute for turkey in a 'traditional' Christmas dinner (what with so little turkey available in Japan).

KFC and other western fastfoods are serious business in Asia, being exotic to locals who think it represents western culture, and are often more expensive than actual fancy restaurants. Especially the case for KFC in Japan due to the whole baseball curse incident.

Tried to pick some up, but it was all sold out.

So we had a tiny-ass roast chicken, soup, and some kind of caesar salad. No potatoes, no gravy, no roast vegetables, no pudding or wine.

I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty cool to spend christmas in japan and all, but I was really fucking disappointed and it made me miss home a lot.

>>1813176
Yes turkey is well known in Japan, too. and My family have turkey this year. KFC success story in Japan is an exaggeration. Gaijin love to talk they did well in Japan.

>>1813167
>KFC uses high class chiken in Japan.
How fucking retarded would you have to be to actually believe that?

>>1813189
>serious business
HEAVEN OR HELL

>>1813187

Yeah. Again, it's popular enough to need reservations, as insane as that is. Sorry to hear about that though. Seriously suckage. :/

>>1813189

Yeah. The Curse of the Colonel thing probably has done wonders for KFC's exposure (even if it was likely already popular back then to lead to the 'Curse' in the first place). Sanders has a weird iconic, simultaneously loved and feared presence in Japan and Japanese fandom, seems.

>>1813197
NICE TITS

WE NEED A NUDE VERSION

>>1813194
You can buy 100yen shop chiken in Japan. and if you have a tongue, even you can find the difference.

>>1813202

>>1813208
NO YOU. I don't know where are you from. but even racit white man can find KFC in Japan is better than ameriKKKan original.

>>1813215
Have you even eaten American KFC? Do you even know what a "high class" chicken is? Fuck off idiot.

chicken trollan~

>>1813221
For example 比内鶏, Hinaidori is famous chiken like Kobe beef in Japan. KFC uses Hinaidori for their menu. You stupid don't know Hinaidori? Just fucking google it, retard.

We just went out and had a yakiniku meat castle... yum.

>>1813234
2/10

>>1813221
I've eaten American KFC, Japanese, Malay, and French, and I can decidedly say American is the worst.

>>1813234
Oh you're a troll? Nevermind then.

>>1813244

Had that yesterday, shit was so awesome

>>1813246
I feel pity for you. Perhaps you don't know even Kobe beef, right?

"Japanese KFC is better than American KFC" is kinda like "prostrate cancer is better than lung cancer"

>>1813256
You are an idiot consumer who buys into marketing hook, line and sinker. Or a mediocre troll.

>>1813257

That's even more arguable, though.

I mean, Prostate cancer can be removed if it's not too far advanced. It's also more random than Lung cancer (lol cigs).
However, removing it removes your PROSTATE.
Good-fucking-bye sex drive.

Fuck.

Do you american really think misbehaving is cool? KFC Japan do not have to misbehave like ameriKKKan.

>>1813256
The rest of the world doesn't eat marbled beef because it's shit. Also, most of your "Kobe" beef is imported from America and Australia and relabeled as "Kobe" by the Kobe beef company. Welcome to reality, enjoy your stay.

>>1813261

Obvious troll is obvious, but yes, America idolizes the rebel and loner.

We were birthed in rebellious flame, doncha know.

>>1813258
I said my family have turkey.

>>1813268
reading comprehension

>>1813262
You want to say poor ameriKKKan can not eat real Kobe beef, right? It is a pity.

This thread is full of lol. american want to think they are smart, but they eat worst chiken in the world. The rest of the world eat better chiken than you. Welcome to the reality.

>>1813272
HAW Vewy cwever tworr-san. The irony of it all is that Japan ships its real Kobe beef to America to be eaten by Americans and America ships it's imitation Kobe beef Japan.

>>1813278

>>1813278

Welcome to reality: chicken isn't the best thing in the world.

Hell, America has better chicken than KFC anyway. Fuck yeah, Popeye's.

>>1813288
They have Popeye's in Japan too.

>>1813298

Clearly it's not as big as KFC is, though.

>>1813279
LOL. How old are you? are you preteen? Kobe beef is serious business more than you think. The beef have their own names like thoroughbred horses. The things you imagine never happen.

>>1813288
>Hell, America has better chicken than KFC anyway. Fuck yeah, Popeye's.

This. Also Church's. Hell, the supermarket down the street has better fried chicken than KFC.

LOL. AS USUAL LIAR AMERIKKKAN RUNS AWAY. LOL

So, KFC thread basically means "white trash who want to make fun of Japan" thread?

>>1813315
I'm presonally fond of Fred Meyer's deli's fried chicken. Hell, most of the stuff they serve there is pretty decent. I just wish it was a bit cheaper.

>>1813303

You're a joke.

>>1813415

Red necks and Gooks are stupid like apes. They really believe their misbehave is cool.

Everyone wants to eat with Kenta-kun.

>>1813459

Do you respect Europeans?

Kobe beef is fucking shit.

Long live the USA!

>>1813193

What is your imouto having?

What do Japanese think when Americans say 'Japan is crazy'?

Korean beef is pretty decent.

Japan is crazy.

Nihonjin is crazy.

>>1813542
corean have the greatest beef for they original farmers of bull

Peruvian here. Tried eating KFC in America and nearly threw up. The KFC here is miles better and tastes much less of grease.

Seriously, what most foreign countries consider "too greasy" you guys consider "acceptable".
Not trolling, just an opinion.

>>1813555
I know, Korean beef is eaten around the world.

Like Samsung electronics is great, but Sony is smaller! LOL!

Deep fried chicken is shit in any country.

>>1813560
But Sony costs an arm and a leg.
I went to their main store in Tokyo and FFFFFFFFFF'd at the prices.
Noise reducing earphones ? Way out of my pay grade.

>>1813584
How much yen?

>>1813559

Do you have one of those large bowler hats that the indios have? Also, what is the KFC like there?

>>1813588
Upwards of 70k for those high level ones.
But damn were they nice.
I bought figs instead because I rather use the in-ear variant, headphones are way to cumbersome.

>>1813602
Headphones are sexy.

RED NECK = GOOK = TRASH OF THE WORLD.

Why not go for the McDonalds while you're at it?

Honestly, take out in christmas: Time to kill self and murder your family.

>>1813710
Because Mac foods are called feed for pigs. Mac in Japan is like KFC in america.

Ok, so the Japs like fried chicken. How do they feel about this fine Southern cuisine?
<---

>>1813728
What is Mac in America?

>>1813779
Thanks for reminding me that my fellow niggers eat pig guts.

>>1813779
So what? I doesn't sell in Japan. If KFC sell good foods in Japan, it is OK. Japanese is not the representative of niggers.

>>1813620

>>1813833
Food for the busy Americans that are too busy ruling the world to care for making their own food.

>>1813842
It's 4:00am in the morning, go back to bed for fuck sake.

>>1813848
I eat mostly fast food and sweets and I have some vitamin deficiencies.

>>1813851
And with that, he went to sleep.

Over 1gb .rar of 15-17yo fucking, sucking and whatnot:
http://is.gd/djBN

>>1813851
>>1813882
wat?

>>1813888
Reported.

>>1813889
You must celebrate christmas like a good buddhist.

American and Korean are stupid.
They believe Chiken is chiken.
Beef is beef.
It's impossible for them to know the difference.
They can not tell Kobe beef from american beef.

>>1813167
>>high class chicken

I really feel pity for american and korean. They will never know the 1st class foods. They keep thinking all chicken is the same and all beef is the same until they die. but at the same time, I think it is good enough for them, barbarian.

>>1814211

I'm a Swede. I carve smoked reindeer in bite-size bits right off the bone with my stainless Mora knife. Tickles mighty well in the gut.

Go ahead. Explain how feeding a virgin cow soy paste and beer, massaging it with low grade whiskey, and torturing it with Mozart somehow makes it different from other meat. Not that I'll understand such superior meat-handling technique.

Jom jom, reindeer.

>>1814320
Its like I'm viewing 4chan through a bablefish lens.

Fuck yeah Helen and Ponpo reindeer Christmas dinner.

>>1814330
lol. typical brainwashed barbarian. Do you want me explain it? If you have enough money, just come to Japan and eat it. If you have sense of taste, you can understand it. Only poor barbaric white and gook try to make fun of Japan. but you just behave like barbarian like him.

>>1814408
why do the japanese think that calling people a barbarian is an insult? Barbarians tear shit up.

>>1814431

Because they have low INT and high STR.

>>1814431
Why would you wear leggings and bracers, but leave your midsection completely unprotected?

This makes absolutely no sense.

>>1813779

It looks like an ash tray.

Also, KFC sucks, even in NZ. This thread makes no sense. If people think there's "good" KFC in Japan, or anywhere else, they're seriously deluded.

>>1814438

The dump stat is usually CHA first

>>1814445
It's all part of a plan, you see...

>>1814445
First rule of fantasy armors. The more skin a female's armor shows, the better it protects.

I know France has some famous chicken like Japanese Hinaidori. and I think american, korean and other barbaric people treat french chicken as special like french wine, right?

>>1814451
No way. Charisma runs your intimidate skill check. where is your barbarian without the screaming fury?

>>1813594
Eh no. I live in Lima (the equivalent of Washington and NY) so Im a pretty arian non-indigenous guy who wears foreign cloth brands. Honestly its like the US here except that 80% of the population is brownish and poor and the mindset is more familly-oriented and the culture is very far from a consumerism mindset.
Fact: Not all peruvian ride llamas and wear colorful chuyos and ponchos.
(In fact, only the guys in the sierra do that as the guys at the jungle are more tribal-like or just 3dr world country poor)

>>1814459
I've never even heard of anyone eating french chicken. over here we just grow our own.

>>1814450
>KFC sucks

>>1814482
that is because you are poor. Perhaps you know anime Yakitate Japan. Japan has many cooking manga. and some cooking manga tell us famous french chicken just like Kobe beef. Why you are so stupid?

>>1814502
Your manga makes up 90% of its 'facts' to suit its plot.

>>1814502
No, no one imports chicken from france, mostly because it wouldn't be fresh. Also, nobody knows france for its chicken. Sure, its wine and its cheese, but not its chicken.

>>1813095
~Hauu I want to take Bento-kun home!

OK. Now I know people outside Japan is basically poor. and they really don't know the value of Kobe beef or Hinaidori. They just eat no name beef and chicken, right? But it means you are poor like native african or something like that. Study hard about what you eat. and The world has special beef and chicken etc...

>>1814502
There is no French chicked that is world renown and destined to importation.
As a Frenchfag, I can say french roast chicken is one of the very best, but although the chicken here is of good quality, it in no way constitutes a prestigious export like Kobe Beef.

Japan: Where chicken and watermelon are big events.

>>1814558
Now I know you are poor, you don't have to do it.
If you think about French wine, can you understand what I want to say?

>>1814545

Rena always gets her Kenta-kun.

(And geez...here the hell did this go off on a tangent to?)

>>1814581
>>1814555
You heard it here folks. Everyone outside Japan are dirt poor and can't afford "QUALITY" food.

>>1814555
Food is food. Eat what you like and quit being elitist about it. It doesn't matter how much it costs, what matters is how nourishing it is and how good it tastes.

>>1814581
As a poor millionnaire I perfectly understand.
Just know that we have famous beef ( Limousine, Charolais, etc), wines and whatnot, but that there's no famous chicken here.

>>1814570
LOL. Typical stupid gaijin. Japanese make fun of gaijin news like CNN because they are really stupid. for example, they say "Oh my God, Japanese fruits is so expensive". but if you know about Japanese "Gift culture", you know their news are so foolish. The expensive fruits are used for the present, the fruits are special like Kobe beef, they don't eat daily life.

>>1814408

No, seriously. Not trying to make you lose face or anything, I just seriously want to know how whiskey massage and Mozart makes beef different from - yeah - beef.

>>1814648

>>1814639
>The expensive fruits are used for the present
Oh, I always use my fruits for the future, so I did not know that.

>>1814680
Is it a english joke? it is not funny at all. but I want you know expensive japanese fruits are "special" like Kobe beef. and it is stupid that gaijin says that oh my god, japanese fruits are expensive. Can you understand it?

/jp/-International Food Markets

>>1814639
actually you don't even have to know about Japanese culture to understand that... my family gets a good laugh out of all these catalogs that sell obscenely expensive foods, or gimmicky appliances and such, that are intended to be bought as gifts

>>1814691
That's not true. most fruit exported to japan is increased in price. Take the apples washington exports to japan. They sell for about 4 times what we pay for them here, and thats just regular, everyday apples.

Of course, japan gets back at us when they export technology or baseball players.

>>1814431
Barbarians caused the Great Roman Empire to fall. Japanese caused the US to nuke them because they thought we were playing in WWII.

>>1814710
more proof that "Barbarian" is more of a compliment than an insult.

>>1814710
Here we go again.

>>1814716
You could say that Japanese is an insult.

>>1814708
Westren media will never come to 100yen shops in Japan. They come to 1st class department stores in center of Tokyo. and they say oh my god...expensive...

>>1814691
Assuming you are Japanese
present = ギフト
present also = 現時点

> Japanese do not have the prejudice chiken is food for niggers.

It is not prejudice, but rather truth!!!

>>1814710
Actually The "Great" Roman Empire was already quite decadent by the time the barbarians arrived. All the previusly great soldiers were either rich fat and corrupt politicians or underfed in some faraway border.
Also they had spread so thin that there wasnt much they could do when hordes of naked plunderers attacked their poorly defended settlements on places far away from the capital.

so you red necks are barbaric like gooks, right?

>>1814727
Not to mention men were cutting off their thumbs so they wouldn't get enlisted into the Roman Army when it was in dire need of recruits. This lead to the Empire recruiting barbarian tribes to help defend their more far-flung provinces.

>>1814330
Oh Helen, I want to make sweet, sweet love to you.

>>1814727
Not just one thing can destroy a civilization. Rome could have gotten better, I couldn't see a group of people that large not looking for solutions. The constant attacks by barbarians sealed the deal.

So, at last, red necks admit they are barbaric like gooks. that's nice.

>>1814723
To be fair, I don't think you understand how western news like CNN works.

of course CNN could go into the 100 yen shops, but that would be boring and mundane. more off, it wouldn't be news. "Headline: Fruits priced at reasonable prices in Japan!!" isn't a good story. Its a better news story if they go to japan and say, "In Japan, Everything is expensive and outrageous!" because then it hooks the viewer's interest. Its what is called a "Fluff piece." a bit of not-news to fill in time between news cycles.

Then again, the only people who watch CNN anymore are the ignorant and the stupid. Anyone who uses the internet regularly understands that the world often doesn't work the way CNN says it does. That is why TV is losing viewers to the internet. The viewers don't want to stand for the media's exaggerations any longer and are quickly turning to the internet.

>>1814555

Scottish Beef is pretty good (Aberdeen Angus).

>>1814740
Plus those "barbarians" were the decedents of Modern Europe. The development of technology in the West was amazing, while the East lacked.

>>1814664

Thought so too, but we got Western celebrities frequently eating truffles "worth" more than a small car. So I'm willing to believe someone actually thinks hocuspocus makes plain cow meat worth $100 a veal.

>>1814768
You should see those "Biodynamic" wine guys. They actually believe that magic rituals and astrology make their wine better.

>>1814761
You don't know that some stupid anon writes like CNN in /jp/?

>>1814761
That's why most Americans watch American programing.

>>1814727
Absolutely nothing to do with being 'spread so thin', and 'barbarization' of the army was limited. It's true infantry became less orientated around heavy infantry. But this was only because they were facing different threats (mobile cavalry), which requires light skirmisher kinds of troops and heavy cavalry.

Roman Army was still the best equipped and trained army of the period in late antiquity.

>>1814749
Ah but remember that news travelled pretty slowly. All messages were carried by horse or boat at best.
Couple that with a constantly advancing/moving target.

And add to that high levels of corruption and general indiference by the average roman (seriously, they could have cared less for the conquered countries as long as the threat didnt affect them personally. Think WW2 Europe.)

>>1814768
> So I'm willing to believe someone actually thinks marketing makes plain cow meat worth $100 a veal.

T,FTFY

Japanese, land of unlimited consumerism and dwindling population with diminutive genitalia

Apparently also land of unlimited troll works

>>1814768
Kobe Beef is the best in the world though.....

>>1814787
I wasn't considering individuals. So, you're right.

>>1814787
>Ah but remember that news travelled pretty slowly. All messages were carried by horse or boat at best.
>Couple that with a constantly advancing/moving target.

What the hell? No. No... lack of modern telecommunications was not a reason at all. Romans had a pretty efficient postal service for administrative mail from the provinces.

>>1814790
I think it's good Japan does not let in immigrants. I would rather have a smaller population than somalians and ghanians and nigerians.

>>1814790
its like the troll allstars in here, but I think that's because most of 4chan is slow over Christmas and they end up concentrated here.

No matter though. its a fun topic to discuss, even if fraught with trollish pitfalls.

>>1814802
They don't keep tourists and visitors out, so you'll still have them anyway.

>>1814809

Yes, but it is hard for them to gain permenant residence.

Besides, no africans have money to go on holiday.

>>1814806
yeah, was kind of wondering why /jp/ is on a roll today.

>>1814806

/jp/ - Japan/VIPPERS

Back on one of the topics, I wonder if anyone considers it an insult to be called a barbarian?

>>1814896
Most people with more brains than brawn would take offense to being called a barbarian.

Me, I have a beard, so I don't mind.

>>1814896

As a proud Necromancer, yes, I find it quite insulting. But it's better than being called a Paladin.

>>1814854
Yay, VIPPER bride! Honestly, I'm so Vip I excrete jews.

>>1814904
I mean, when I think Barbarian, I think Conan, I think D&D. I don't find it insulting at all. In fact, its kinda funny.

The fact that a culture thinks I should be insulted by this is a little weird to me.

>>1814904
I mean, when I hear barbarian, I think Conan, I think D&D. I don't find anything insulting about it whatsoever and in fact, its a little bit funny.

The fact that someone thinks I should feel gravely insulted by this is a little odd.

>>1814937

>barbarians
>Conan
>d&d
>not diablo II
>image macro

>>1814896
Think of it this way, if you were a tall, muscular, but dim-witted with no class, how much respect would you get from modern day society? If you really walked around looking and acting like a barbarian, do you honestly think everybody would be all "Awesome! I bet he tears shit up!".

>>1814959

Barbarian means " The ones that cannot be understood"
It was used to refer to all the people who didn't belong to the city, all the subhumans, if you will.
Since these people didn't belong here and didn't speak the language, they were " barbarians"
In a way, being a barbarian is really tragic, as you are a misunderstood individual.

>>1814959

If you played sports, yes. If you went around impaling office workers, maybe. If you were all about burning and pillaging, probably not.

>>1814969
uh, no.

>>1814969
I don't think thats it.

>>1814991
>>1814986
It is, not etymologically, technically, it's just the foreigner.
But by extension, it's that guy that's subhuman and that you can't understand.

Long John Silvers has the best chicken I have ever had. thats right, a seafood restaurant has the best chicken. Dont believe me, go buy some next time you are hungry.

>>1814995
No, not even that.
Barbarian comes from barbaroi, the bearded ones.
It means savage.

>>1815014
you sir, are smoking crack.

I've ate LJS chicken before, and my stomach has yet to forgive me for that travesty of a meal.

>>1814995
Subhumans and primal cultures are the easiest people to understand though so that doesn't make much sense.

>>1815021

where do you live? the ones in chicago are great, but i really think its mostly the batter that makes it taste so delicious. i've converted 10 of my friends into LJS fans. they have good herseys chocolate pie too.

>>1815015
>The word "barbarian" comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is onomatopeic, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing a spoken language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah, babble or rhubarb in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit barbara-, "stammering" or "curly-haired."

Depending on its use, the term "barbarian" either described a foreign individual or tribe whose first language was not Greek or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely


Shamelessly quotinq wikipedia, as I don't feel like opening a book, but you can see it's origin comes from the ununderstandable gibberish foreigners speak.

>>1815035
Western washington. I ate at the federal way location, because it was the first LJS I've ever ate at.

Yuck.

all i hear is kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef kobe beef

>>1815052
Western Washington sucks. How're you enjoying the snow we're getting?

>>1815055
oh hell. I live in towards the mountains so I got a foot of the shit. I've been snowed in for 3 days now.

>>1815077
Oh wow, that sucks. I live on an island, so I haven't gotten too much snow. At the least, I'm able to get to the stores.

>>1815077
wuss

>>1815052

if you ever get the chance, try LJS in chicago. I hate fastfood places usually, but for some reason, the flavor of the batterdipped chicken is too good.

>>1815120
If I ever head that way.

>>1815104
First time in 20 years we've had a white christmas.

I should say that Japanese think that all gaijins are stupid like CNN. but it is you gaijins fault. If you think it it unfair or something like that, you should change it by yourself.

>>1815272
Apparently we have control over the American media.

>>1815361
We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.

>>1815272
How about western anime fans?

>>1815272

How do we change it?

After reading this thread my brain hurts.

>>1815418
You can't. It's simply because you're American and nothing else.