Zell doesn't like hot dogs

[Lex]

He likes curry bread. How did I only just find this out.

 

[Shademp]

From the ffwiki.

In the game's English translation, Zell loves hot dogs, but in the original Japanese version Zell's favorite food is flavored bread. In the French version, his favorite food is "Bretzel".

...Neat.

 

[Jason Tandro]

Presumably it was a cultural translation. But now I have to watch the ending cutscene again...

Yup... that's clearly bread he's eating, not hotdogs.

 

[Ami]

 

[Ghost X]

Zell is less likely to get colon cancer.

 

[RedFFWolf]

Huh, now that's interesting.

So, I suppose when Squall is making his orders when Galbadia Garden comes to invade, he wasn't originally saying to specifically hide the supply of hot dogs - at least bread sounds a little more "in the moment" (or whatever the Japanese script initially says - I can't find a good script - unless anyone is capable of taking an immediate stab at deciphering option 7 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5WNXDnBumQ&t=4m4s)

 

[Lex]

Zell is less likely to get colon cancer.

Have I ever mentioned you and I have exactly the same sense of humour?

 

[lithiumkatana17]

Hot dogs, curry bread, bretzel.

He's still a chicken wuss to me!

 

[Kuja9001]

I thought more people knew this. This is also another reason why I say FFVIII's localization is awful.

 

[Lex]

FFVIII's localisation is awful, no questions asked. However, I understand this change. I don't like it, because it's particularly American pandering (hot dogs are nowhere near as big a deal here), but I don't resent it or anything like that. They felt they had to make it a food that was relatable to the English speaking world, and it serves that purpose. Into the bargain, the majority of the English speaking audience of the game were from North America so I can't hold that decision against them.

Having said that, I don't see why they couldn't have just made it bread. I don't think it would have been weird at all to have done that.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Hot dogs aren't all that big a deal here, either. I mean, I can see why they changed it from bread, seeing that bread is both

1. An even lesser deal than hot dogs. That, and to most English speaking people, it doesn't have the implicit rarity that the game portrayed; I mean, it's fucking bread. It's one of the most common commodities there is. There's a reason for the term 'bread and butter'.

2. Not...that great? I mean, don't get me wrong, bread is a wonderful food item that's necessary for all kinds of edibles. Hell, I even enjoyed eating bread by itself as a kid. But the idea of bread being so good that a college aged student kicks himself for missing plain ass bread in the cafeteria, and almost chokes to death eating bread after bread, is hilarious. Besides for the occasional hot dog contest, you're not really going to see Americans gorging themselves with tons of hot dogs, either.

I'm assuming that in the original Japanese it probably wasn't plain ass bread, and actually maybe a roll or special flavor bread or something? Instead, they should have done that, make it a special, non common (but delicious to imagine) roll? Dinner rolls are good. Rolls with honey butter are good. Cinnamon rolls are pretty rad. Something like that. Hell, you could even get fictional with it and make up some sort of (fictional delicious spice+bread roll) or something.

But yeah.

 

[Starling]

Lex starts off the thread saying it was curry bread so no, it wasn't the plain kind.

 

[Flare]

....bread is an even lesser deal than hot dogs....

....Not that great....

...the idea of bread being so good that a college aged student kicks himself for missing plain ass bread in the cafeteria, and almost chokes to death eating bread after bread is hilarious....

WHAT.

Bread is the most holiest, the most beautiful, the most delicious of all manufactured foods out there. Nothing comes close to
The texture,
The richness,
The crusty crust,
Or the plushy plush,
The heavenly smells that waft
And the divine touch that's soft.
The slow way it rises,
Damn it appetizes.

'Bread' - By Flare.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Lex starts off the thread saying it was curry bread so no, it wasn't the plain kind.

I noticed, thank you.

 

[Tetsujin]

Interesting, because it's hot dogs in the German version too, despite being translated directly from the Japanese by a Japanese/German guy.

 

[Flare]

Also Lex, thanks for finding this out, because it's definitely going in the Final Fantasy Trivial Pursuit!

 

[ForceStealer]

I understand this change. I don't like it, because it's particularly American pandering (hot dogs are nowhere near as big a deal here), but I don't resent it or anything like that. They felt they had to make it a food that was relatable to the English speaking world, and it serves that purpose. Into the bargain, the majority of the English speaking audience of the game were from North America so I can't hold that decision against them.

Having spent time in Japan, hot dogs are a WAY bigger deal there than they are in the US. McDonalds has a McHotDog for heaven's sake. THe biggest surprise to me is that it wasn't hot dogs in the Japanese version.

 

[trash panda]

Bread is the most holiest, the most beautiful, the most delicious of all manufactured foods out there. Nothing comes close to
The texture,
The richness,
The crusty crust,
Or the plushy plush,
The heavenly smells that waft
And the divine touch that's soft.
The slow way it rises,
Damn it appetizes.

'Bread' - By Flare.

Thank you for that.

 

[Flare]

^I love bread, in case no one noticed.

 

[Octo]

It should have been Cinnabons

Spoiler

 

[Shademp]

I love bread, in case no one noticed.

Then you have no choice...you must watch the anime Yakitate, which is all about making bread! IT IS SUPER EPIC!

 

[Kuja9001]

^I love bread, in case no one noticed.

I'm also a heavy bread eater.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

I love well made bread... but that's not the type of bread you can find at the average grocery store in the US... which would be why us Americans would view Zell's bread addiction as weird...

 

[lithiumkatana17]

....bread is an even lesser deal than hot dogs....

....Not that great....

...the idea of bread being so good that a college aged student kicks himself for missing plain ass bread in the cafeteria, and almost chokes to death eating bread after bread is hilarious....

WHAT.

Bread is the most holiest, the most beautiful, the most delicious of all manufactured foods out there. Nothing comes close to
The texture,
The richness,
The crusty crust,
Or the plushy plush,
The heavenly smells that waft
And the divine touch that's soft.
The slow way it rises,
Damn it appetizes.

'Bread' - By Flare.

Thank you for making my freakin' day with that poem. I just died laughing.

 

[Flare]

I love well made bread... but that's not the type of bread you can find at the average grocery store in the US... which would be why us Americans would view Zell's bread addiction as weird...

God, well-made bread is worth finding. Actually, have you ever tried Haggen bread? I have one near where I live, and they have a very good bakery. Delicious donuts, fluffy french bread, and so on. Panera bread has some good bread too, but it's a little further away from me and a little more expensive than Haggen bread.

And as my poem shows... I find nothing weird about bread addictions.