Pekora Learns What Subway Means In English After She Thought Ina's Subway Was A Sandwich Restaurant 

Bae should open a whataburger and call it whatabaeger

I always imagine every airport has a KFC... so KFP would be an airport? Phoenix can fly!

Lmao , Y'all are hurting my braincells 😃✊🏻

@@MillenniumDays Phoenix "Sky Harbor" Airport...where are the ships?

@@imLumineux Watabaeger

Sasuga pun-priestess!

Her doorbell is labeled Tako Bell. It’s all puns.

sbubby

@@orangeapples I would never have noticed that ina likes puns

@@lilymuu eaf freef

I thought they named it "Subway" because they specifically open their business in underground train stations (subways), turns out there's more to it.

@@indiexanna Your version made it sound like a fancy sandwich place that only makes its branches underground. Like "these sandwiches must not see the light of day"

@@indiexanna i though the same lol

@@richter1934 Need For Sandwich : Underground

@@indiexanna isnt this the origin? the generic name subway sandwich where their market target are people who wants a quick food on subways?

And then flew back through the subway only to get killed and shouting kiara's name for help

Oh god I'd be mega annoyed if I were her… 😂

@@Ma-G4 And gets intimidated with the chest size of Ame's statue.

Certified Pekora Moment

What does PPP stand for

It's the best 😂

Would like to imagine Peko wearing the Fedora hat and whipping around

PekoGiana Jones

PekoGiana Jones

@Abyssal Horror yes

A maglev train in a subway? Every subway I’ve seen has rails

"can i get shinkanshen, here's my coupon" "Sir , this is a subway" "Potaeto potayto"

Who the fuck has a maglev subway

Subway: is an English word, founded in the US Pekora: “Do they have Subway overseas?”

@@samiamrg7 best part, surprised the comment is so low. "Oh, the Japanese like anime too?"

Pekora: "*largest fast train on the planet"

Source for Subway being bigger than McDonalds?

@@cathsaigh2197 don't have any source but it wouldn't surprise me, McDonald's makes you place your franchise in a plot of land that they own while subway doesn't and is a lot cheaper on the franchisee payments.

She probably thinks the same about Dennys or Wendys cos you can find that in big cities in japan too haha

@@easyduster Pekora be like : "do they sell comic books in America ?"

The amount of times a Holomem asks if we have or know about **insert random thing** overseas, when it’s something that originated overseas, is hilariously high.

If she's looking for a smoked ham and marscapone sandwich at an American subway, or expecting anything from an American subway to taste good, I have sad news for her. The other day I said "I'm so hungry I'd briefly consider ordering from subway" to a coworker and got a "Oh dear God, good thing it's time for lunch break".

@@KomboEzaliTe it depends on the store in the US I have eaten at some good subways but yes in general i would much rather eat at some more local store or chain like togo's.

In most Asian counties, It's called "Metro". I recall it being the case in Hong Kong and Singapore

"metro" itself also not the right way to call that transportation Both "subway" and "metro" are just how the local calls them I know "subway" name is from USA(maybe?). Maybe "metro" word came from Russia? Idk. Edit: the right way to call that thing maybe like.. Mass Rapid Transportation or maybe Subterranean Train or etc?

@@DBT1007 Tokyo Metro is an exception and more a brand name - probably referring to it serving Tokyo metropolis. In Japanese subway is called “chikatetsu” = underground train/railway like used here by Pekora. Most Japanese subway systems are called X chikatetsu in Japanese and X Subway in English like in Kobe, Kyōto, Nagoya, Sapporo, and so on. The operator of the Tokyo Metro is also called Tokyo Chikatetsu. Finally, Tokyo has two subway systems: the other is called Toei Subway.

@@DBT1007 Both terms originated in the UK. London's metropolitan railway opened in 1863. Similar transport systems that came later often used either "metropolitan" in the name or shortened it to "metro." Many of the later transport systems look very different from the original London model, but that was the first use of the term in this context. In the UK the term "subway" primarily means an underground path, often as a route that directs pedestrians to cross beneath a busy road. However, it was used as the name of Glasgow's underground train system, which opened in 1896.

@@chikin6146 in Singapore we call it MRT, but we know what subway is (both the train term and the sandwich chain)

Not any decent ones lol

In every corner and sometimes next to each other. For some fucking reason

well atleast u can get a cheaper version sandwich too if you are hungry...

@@pzgamerch There's literally a circle k right across the street from another circle k in my town lol

In my country it's just like Indomaret and Alfamart. Sometimes they are just across each other, the other time they are just side by side.

If someone was asking me for Subway, my first thought would be the sandwich shop. I worked at one for a while..

@@redkommie80 If some stranger was asking me for Subway in New York , that is a whole different type of kink shiet LOL

@@Dan_Kanerva oh in New York or anywhere that has an actual subway line (in America), I can believe that. Now through, I wonder if Britain and Europe call it Subway or something else? Tram line? Or is that buses in England? Either way, fair point on New York.

@@redkommie80 we call it the underground in britain or just the train

@@llodoroo *ahem* Glasgow Subway.

I mean it’s not too uncommon to have certain establishments that are only in specific countries. For example I have never seen a Nandos in Germany (I think there are a few locations but never seen them and Germany isn’t even listed on the nandos worldwide list). So while it does have an English name not all of overseas is English. So it is a question that can be asked in confusion without any shame

To be fair, there's a few chains in Japan that are huge in the country that were transplants from the States. Like Lawson's.

As if some of us wouldn’t genuinely think Godzilla isn’t from Japan

"Woah! Japan has sushi restaurants, as well?!"

but they are not making money like macd and many have gone out of business

here in argentina, subway is not that many as macdonals, like 5%

It's not just that. Mcdonalds are VERY choosy about optimal store location. It's often joked that Mcdonalds isn't a restaurant chain but a real estate company.

I'm sure it helps that they can be much smaller. The Subway near me only had one table pre-covid, and it was right next to the line

@@thewizardninja McDonald is weird like that. Also idk if you notice but if you see a almost any chain restaurant there always mostly gonna be a McDonald nearby lmao

I know right? Now I have to reverse engineer that sandwich in my kitchen because that sounds amazing.

if what your getting is the rough end then we americans must be the Very edge of the rough end, so rough it can chisel stuff

@@chasebladesword1211 That's that free market capitalism for ya lads!

Japanese fast food is actually classy. Here in the States we have a good-enough attitude with that stuff and put in misguided additives like fruit sugar and hydrogenated oil that do more harm than they were supposed to prevent even nowadays because modern corporate America colludes to milk suffering of commoners-miseducating you about proper eating, making the good food expensive, encouraging you to eat junk so they can make you need a doctor, having the doctor put you on a diet they know you won't be able to stick to and even if you do it won't last because it's not to your taste while also doing nothing to help with factors outside your control like your terrible parents constantly mocking you for being a fattie while eating more of the same crap as you than you do and getting away with it because of metabolism from God, blaming you for not staying in control, forcing you to get special aid, covering your story on reality TV, burdening you with so many other problems all the while that you don't even have a chance to look up the real answers online. That all said, native Subway can still be quasi-liveable fast food if you pick the right bread. Carbs in general aren't the problem, and neither is gluten unless you actually have a sensitivity; _refined_ carbs are.

Western fast food places have to work hard to get a foothold in Easterns countries. Like, McDonald’s here is basically processed garbage but over in Asia? Oh my god it’s like normal restaurant food. Got hot wings and a spicy chicken burger and was reminded that in China they take spicy seriously. And it wasn’t just hot, it had flavor. Actual flavor from McDonald’s.

The Japanese version of that question would literally translate as "Subway know?"

I think the problem with the sentence is that it uses ‘subway’ as a proper noun, implying that she means Subway the restaurant and not the general word for underground trains, ‘subway’, which is a common noun. So if she asked this to someone, they would probably respond that they know of Subway the sandwich restaurant, and reinforce the idea that the word ‘subway’ mainly refers to the restaurant.

Who's Subway?

@@LavaSaver Another part of it is that stating knowledge of something as "knowing X" implies having significant information and competence regarding actual instances of that thing such as proficiency in an academic subject, what a place is like, how a person acts etc. while saying "know about X" implies familiarity with the general topic regardless of specific examples and "know of X" merely means knowing that something exists in some way. So to say "know subway" sounds like a straight reference to the Subway restaurant chain or perhaps an individual Subway restaurant (clarifiable with extra words as in "know that Subway") rather than subway train systems or the word itself since both would have to be clarified with extra words: "know about subway systems" "know what "subway" means"

@@Candlemancer Or in more proper English, "Is the notion of "subway" known?"

Well, i'm English and i used to have a meatball marinara for lunch in the early days of secondary school. They tasted pretty nice but they're bloody expensive and super messy.

Smoked beef and mascarpone...I kind of want to try The Pekora.

I was another way around ... in my english text book, they tell us "Subway" is an underground railway ... Than I was surprised when someone ask me "Hey! Have you ever eat Subway?" I was like "yo, you eat train ?!" ... I never seen any of "Subway" with my own eyes in my life tho ...

Can we suggest EN server to install a food mod. Bam!! Sandwiches and other assorted food

I'm waiting for KFC or Kit-Kat...

It's not uncommon for the Japanese apparently, they can notoriously ignorant of anything outside Japan lol

To put it politely, Japanese people are incredibly parochial.

@@exu7325 I think that might just be the result of them being an island nation that doesn't do a particularly good job at teaching English (because it really isn't needed by them to the same extent as other countries). They have their own internet sites, and not many of them are talking to English speakers online, and so they don't naturally develop a sense for what things are like in our countries.

@@captainthunderbolt7541 Trust me man, the average Chinese people know that McDs and Starbucks are foreign. It's just ingrained in the contemporary Japanese culture and system.

Lol true, some tissues not even Kleenex brand and still called Kleenex

I mean, it's not always bad. But when it's bad, it's really really bad.

Weeell it's not only in jp, also in a certain country of tacos Subway is sooooo delicious.

It’s just a sandwich. How bad can it get? Tastes fine enough.

All the ones I've ever had have been good but I'm not in the states

Everyone in the world has a higher quality standard than the US when it comes to food. All the bread I've had from US manufacturers have been basically cake. Why is there so much sugar in your bread?

Unless you are in Japan, good luck.

Mascarpone (the correct spelling) is a soft spread type of Italian cheese, so unlikely to see it in the USA.

I'm also confused, since mascarpone is also quite sweet, hence it being used in a lot of desserts. I'm putting this down to Japan being Japan. They understand the concepts of sandwiches and hamburgers, but they do them their own way.

When we get asked, it’s usually obvious based on context.

sub comes from the general term Submarine sandwich

@@SirElderock Yep, but out of all of them.. Blimpie is my favorite.

In fairness, an underground rail system (or an elevated/entrenched one) could work if planned even remotely well.

Yup, hence the word Submarine, which is actually what the Sub Sandwich term comes from. Prior to that they were called Hoagies, or Hero sandwiches, etc. most of the time.

I mean if we named the sandwich shop "the underground/tube" it would still cause the same confusion.

@@TeslaHaxz you might be on to something there xD omegaLUL

*ham