#theres also the californian pizza

[chekovsphaser]

Local pizza place is having a special offer on what they call a Canadian pizza. Which contains, among other things, hearts of palm and catupiry cheese. Both of which I am certain no Canadian has ever put on a pizza on account of they literally do not exist there.

[matrose]

what is ddf?

hi anon so happy u asked this because it allows me to type a wall of text about a topic i love to talk about!!!!! ❣️ ddf is short for "die drei fragezeichen" which is the german version of the american kids book series "the three investigators", written by robert arthur! it follows three young detectives that are 13 at the beginning of the series and later get aged up to 17/18 so they can drive cars. the publishing history is hilarious so im gonna recount the whole thing to you

- only ten books were written by robert arthur himself, before he passed away in 1969

-the series was then continued by additional four authors who wrote an additional 37 books, at this point the characters were still 13, but a rivaling book series that also featured a group of kids aged their characters up, so of course the same had to happen to the investigators.

- the characters, now around 17 years old get lots of cool updates, like knowledge of hand to hand combat, drivers licenses, and a ton of new authors. this new series was called crimebusters and only ran from 1989 to 1990, but managed to produce 13 books, written by seven different people, six of them being new additions to roster. with this, the american career of the three investigators ends.

-germany meanwhile, picked up the books around 1979 and they get very popular (after a rough start and a cover redesign)! so germany does what germany loves to do and makes audiodramas out of them, writing scripts, hiring voice-actors, and recording them onto cassettes of course. the voice-actors are of course actual 13 year olds! (for now.) and wow does everybody go crazy for these casettes!!! people cant get enough of them!

-when the american production of ddf books ceases, the german population is very sad: soon they will run out of ddf scripts! but not to worry. after some legal disagreements, more books finally get written! in german now of course! and by FOURTEEN different authors! the first german ddf book gets released to the public in 1993.

-the three voice-actors at this point have become a household staple. almost everyone knows their voices. the kids that grew up listening to them are now having kids on their own who are of course also listening to them. (this mostly applys to western germany for obvious reasons). so in the early 2000s the voice-actors start doing livetours of their readings

-these livetours are a huge hit: sometime between then and now, they broke the world-record for biggest audience at a live audiodrama, somewhere in berlin. for some reason two of the voice-actors (one of them married. with kids) put in a segment that involves them singing romantic karaoke and then kissing on the stage, always met with thunderous applause. this little joke of theirs keeps going and their two characters become incredibly gay, which everyone refuses to acknowledge because "its a joke" (????).

-theyve had an enormous impact on german popculture to the point where theres been ddf toasters, ddf tents, ddf shoelaces, ddf anythings. ddf pizza. i myself own a ddf mug a ddf towel and a ddf pin, because i of course also grew up listening to the audiodramas, on cassettes that i got from my parents who listened to those same cassettes when they were kids. the books are still going (currently at volume um, around 230 i believe?) and the audiodramas are also steadily coming out. theyve got these german men that are all balding and over 50 voice some peppy 17 year old californians! lifes so funny

-i realize that by telling you this timeline ive told you very very little about the actual plot, but the plot isnt that important anyways... its three guys theyre detectives thats mostly it. the adventures are basically insane (one time one of them got shot into space? another time some crime boss who was genuinely kin with moriarty and was convinced their leader their 17 year old leader was his sherlock kidnapped them to have some sherlock v moriarty showdown with him. theyre in a permanent stand-off with the CIA because theyve got some info on them that they could easily leak to the press and thats the only reason they arent in federal prison: the CIA is scared to act lest they leak their info. anyways lots of normal things!)

-also i just want to reiterate that there have been 25 seperate people writing these books and that theres now 230 books out there and theyre still releasing more and that these voice-actors have been their characters for 40 years...thats just crazy to me

[askingexorcists]

How would Rin, Renzou, Kinzo, Non and Amaimon react to having an s/o from California? I've been to Texas before and my god, it was like I was visiting a different country. It was beautiful and funny because I was told how much they like my accent.....I go "Like, wat accent?" and they're like "That one". We may be in the same country but it's so fucking huge. Every state is different.

Rin:

He thinks its super cool to have an s/o from such a cool country

He asks them about the celebrities they’ve met

And if they’ve ever been an extra in a movie

He would LOVE to visit California with you

And would beg you to take a photo of you two at the Hollywood sign

Then make it look like he’s pinching the H

Like he did with the temple in Kyoto

When they first met he expected them to be really stuck up

Was surprised but relieved when he found out they were nice

He’ll want to try out recopies from their country, and the Californian cuisine in general 

But America has no specific food other then burgers and stuff

So he just ended up making California style pizza

Renzou:

What he thinks when he thinks California is girls, big boobs, hollywood

He doesn’t care if your a bitch

He’ll just think it’s hot

He’s probably the only one who can handle your attitude 

Renzou expects you to always wear sunglasses

And he likes it when you talk like your better then everyone else

He’s down to go to parties with you

He’s surprised you liked him tbh because he wasn’t as cool, or rich, or glamorous as the boys you might be used too

Renzou would go shopping with you, and carry your bags for you

He would probably take out a student loan or ‘borrow’ money from his parents or brothers and sister to take you to the most luxurious restaurants 

Kinzou:

Similar to Renzou

He expects someone from California to be automatically a big deal

And to have an awesome body

He just assumes they’ve been on TV

He’ll ask them to try get him a cameo in the next huge hollywood movie

“But Kin-chan, I’m not even famous..”

“Well yeah…but your from California!”

“THAT DOESN’T AUTOMATICALLY MAKE ME FAMOUS!”

“Huh, it doesnt?”

He loves to show off his hot, Cali s/o to his brothers

Probably asks them to use their superstar skills to get his and a record deal

He can’t get it through his head that you aren’t famous

Will go through your phone to see if you have any celebrity phone numbers

Bon:

Only one who see’s you as a normal person

Doesn’t think of you as a celebrity, or assume you’ve been in a movie, or met anyone famous

He thought you seemed nice straight away

He expected uptight as well

When he first met you he was happy to get to know you

And because it was helping improve his English

You got him into some random american crime shows

And you two binged them together, and you helped him with words he didn’t understand

He also wants to show you his country

And will enjoy taking you around various temples and shrines 

As well as showing you traditional Japanese cuisine 

But if you felt like eating Americany foods he’s more then happy to eat fast food with you

Amaimon:

He doesn’t care

It doesn’t matter where your from

If you go back to California some time, he might tag along

He just wants to learn more about Assiah, it isn’t really any other reason

Although he does like the food there

Amaimon develops a love for overly greasy, fried foods

Can you imagine Amaimon doing the food challenges with Rick from MAN V FOOD and Rick’s shocked af because theres this creepy ass green guy who ate the worlds largest burger in under 5 seconds

He comes back to Japan with eight suitcases full of American candy

Yeah its the same here in England, growing up people always asked me where I was from, because apparently I sounded posh. I have no idea where the came from, but my voice is like really sort of grimey? if you can get what I mean by that, then it turns into like super british typicalness. Like sometimes I sound really Geordie, or like I’m from Yorkshire, and it confuses everyone around me tbh.