December 12th, 2017 | EarthBound, Merchandise, MOTHER 1, MOTHER 3 | 13 Comments

Brian Connor (aka level 1 chef) and friends have been planning the ultimate MOTHER series cookbook for some time, and now it’s about to become a reality! They posted a Kickstarter for the project yesterday, and it’s already about to hit its initial goal. Here are some sample pics: The project has some stretch goals too: I’m particularly looking forward to the Moonside reci...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 »