March 27th, 2019 | EarthBound, Food, Merchandise, MOTHER 3 | 8 Comments

We covered the Mother’s Cookbook Kickstarter a while back, which was successfully funded and recently fulfilled! If you missed out, you can now buy a copy at Fangamer. I’m incredibly impressed with this cookbook. The recipes are creative and easy to follow, the photography is beautiful, and the entire book is dripping with love. Not only do you get recipes for foods that appear...Read More »

January 19th, 2017 | Food, MOTHER 3, Videos | 7 Comments

Jammy sent in a video that shows off a fan-made recipe for the Pork Noodles food item that appears in MOTHER 3: I’m not a very good cook but I this seems enough for even me to try! You can also find other game and pop culture-themed recipes on Jammy’s YouTube page here. If you have any EarthBound/MOTHER recipes of your own, share them in the comments! I once made some Giygas cookies&#...Read More »

February 17th, 2014 | EarthBound, Food | 15 Comments

Over the years I’ve posted some real-life Peanut Cheese Bars, but here’s one from a really neat site I recently discovered called Moogle Pie: Here’s a quick description of this Peanut Cheese Bar: A Peanut Cheese Bar is also a treat Ness and the gang enjoy. However, before you take the bars name at face value, I must remind you that cheese can be sweet, ie cheesecake. Its not a g...Read More »

May 15th, 2013 | EarthBound, Food | 18 Comments

A fan by the name of Chris sent me an e-mail about a video game-themed restaurant/bar in Canada called “EXP”. It has Triforce Burgers, Super Smash Nachos, and all sorts of other stuff. It even has “Mach Pizza Fries”: If you’re in Vancouver, check it out and let me know how it is! The website and restaurant info is here. ...Read More »

February 27th, 2013 | EarthBound, Food, Images | 14 Comments

One of the neat things the Starmen.Net community does is something called “Fantography”. It’s basically just taking photos of EarthBound stuff or EarthBound-inspired stuff. You can check out the entire Fantography section here. I was curious to see if this was something Japanese fans do too… and I quickly stumbled upon this gallery of MOTHER 2-related food photos sent in by...Read More »

July 29th, 2012 | EarthBound, Food, Images | 10 Comments

KyleRXZero recent sent this in: Hey Tomato, I had to show you pics of this awesome cake I got for my birthday. It’s Saturn Valley themed and full of awesome! My sister-in-law Stephanie made it for me 🙂 Here are some pics: #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery...Read More »

June 22nd, 2012 | EarthBound, Food | 8 Comments

For a while now I’ve had pictures of these tasty-looking EarthBound cookies on my hard drive: I don’t know where I got these pics, but it makes me want to eat them. The cookies, not the images. One time I tried to make EarthBound cookies too. It didn’t turn out so well. ...Read More »

January 21st, 2012 | EarthBound, Food | 17 Comments

Esther Zinn sent this in the other day: Looks like the gaming/baking folks at Snack or Die made a recipe for Peanut Cheese Bars with Mr. Saturn faces! Boing. (Link) I’m not very fond of cheese, but even I think this looks and sounds awesome 😯 Anyone else have any EarthBound recipes? ...Read More »

September 29th, 2011 | EarthBound, Food, Images | 11 Comments

TalonKhan sent this in the other day: A friend of our family made this cake for my birthday yesterday I figured I should take a picture for ya Mato also now I know why anyone would try and enslave Mr. Saturns and make them work in factories their corpses are DELICIOUS! :3 I find it interesting how this cake is so different from this other Mr. Saturn cake. I guess I never realized there were so ma...Read More »

March 24th, 2011 | Food, Images, MOTHER 3, Uncommon Knowledge | 5 Comments

In the Japanese version of MOTHER 3, a sign in the desert area recommends a restaurant that sells taiyaki and yakisoba. Intrepid reporter Izumi visited the restaurant a long while back and posted this about it: I went to Naniwaya, the cafe mentioned by Tomato a few posts up. In M3 Itoi points out that Naniwaya is famous for taiyaki (sweet cakes filled with red bean paste, shaped like tai, sea br...Read More »