There's also Ramen Shop Hideyoshi. A Japanese chain food restaurant that's all over.

There is indeed, but I didn't intend for that to be mentioned in this story.

Oh? I guess that didn't come to your mind.

Because I don't think of Japanese things normally; I think of American things.

I am Italian-American, but I focus on things from all over the world.

That's true. You seem to have a particular fascination for Japan, though; I'm equally guilty of such things except in my case, it's all things United Kingdom.

Star: S4 Corporation is the world's biggest company. To be fair though, M3 would be the world's largest fast food company.

Gatling Gator: And when the Feeder Foxes come back, the world's largest fast food company will be hit.

Green Guardian (G2): I'm actually more worried about M3 being dragged into anti-EU politics and accusing the company for forcing American food and influences against their cultures. There's rumors back in Athlone that there will be protests against American fast food globalization in Ireland and protestors will say that American fast food will cause an obesity epidemic in Ireland and the IRA will back these protestors.

Chrysanthemum Queen: We Taiwanese treat American fast food chains as whimsical. The same for Asian fast food companies that copy American cuisine like Lotte and Jolibee's.

S.C.: Pizza in America is strange! I'm from Naples; the Italian city where it's home to REAL Italian pizza! What happened to provolone cheese, basil leaves, on top of tomato sauce on thin crust bread? You know, pizza margarita? American pizza crust is too thick! And the way Americans in Chicago make pizza is too thick!

Dustin: That's a deep dish pizza and it's normal in Chicago. American pizza is different. If you want American pizza that is close if not exact to the pizza you're used to, go to NYC or go to any independent pizza stores run by Italians from NYC. Even Wildcat City has pizzerias run by Italians from NYC.

S.C.: Oh. Thanks for clearing that up with me. Being from Naples, we take our food seriously.

F2: I see so many M3s in a lot of the urban city centers in Iraq but American soldiers stationed in my country usually go there. I prefer kabobs and gyros as fast food since they're commonly eaten by Iraqis and they're recognizable to me. I also love authentic Italian food. S.C. took me to a place in Naples where for the first time in my life, I tried pizza (without pork in it) and gelato and I love them! Gelato is my favorite treat!

Blitz Fox: Dutch people typically don't eat hot meals during the day; they're to be consumed at dinner time. I'll just take salad. On off days, I do enjoy a eating fries with mayonnaise every now and then since that's the proper Dutch way to eat fries but are to be consumed on days that you're not working. We Dutch are choosy on what we eat at certain times.

Ludo: *Holds an Idaho potato.* What a big potato. This could be a Dutch fries party! *Chuckles*

Leo: That's a good one! I'm going to write that down. *He smiles and jots it down on a piece of paper.*

Cripto: I guess none of us have ever had proper pizzas as Italians made it, but I do remember seeing a program about it on Food Network. It claimed, however, that you didn't make it first; it was China. What was that all about, anyway?

M3 CEO: I do not want the restaurant I'm CEO of dragged into politics of any sort, but to say I'm shutting it down before that happens would only be an overreaction. I say that because I am immune now, but I had been infected by Bendraqi's pouter germs and had those kinds of thoughts. Obviously I don't want the dreaded fat duo involved either; it's bad enough the Glaswegian Devils struck us once.

Super C: Well, that was his intention the entire time; get us to stew in our misery, get the world to hate us and ban us, and then he'll do the rest. Of course, he's out of the picture now.

Lead Glaswegian Devil: Just to let you know, we all went through rehab and turned over a new leaf, so this letter to you is our formal apology for when we tried but failed to get our version of Bendraqi's hypnosis into your patties. That would have eventually led to our ultimate goal: get the whole world back under British control so that the sun will literally never set on our Empire again. Frankly, after three centuries, we forgot why we had the motivation to make that happen.

M3 CEO: I see. I accept your apology, of course.

Avenger: It's impractical for us to have the Empire back again, especially when you look at all the progress made in the world, and all the other troubles going on with the IRA and other groups.

S.C.: Marco Polo traveled across the Silk Road and I do know that the art of sauce making came from China.

Liu: You Italians took a lot of our ideas; music, pasta, frying, spices, and the list goes on. Your ravioli is obviously based off from our dumplings and wonton. In China, we call them jiaozi.

Ryo: In Japan, it's gyoza.

Kyu: In Korea, it's mandu.

Yul: In Mongolia, it's buuz.

Leonek: We have our own dumplings and we Poles call them pierogi.

Liu: Do remember that we Chinese invented most of this world's necessities before the Greek Empire was born. There's archaeological proof that most of the basic items the world use started back in China. Even historians in Wildcat City has proof of this. Synchronized dancing and music is what led to the formation of marching bands today. In the end, the world connects to us for proving the most to the basics of civilization.

Leoncio: Tomato sauce was accidentally discovered when one of my men during the Conquistador days stepped and slipped on a tomato. And from there, that's when we realized that tomatoes can be made into sauce.

Cripto: Maybe Marco Polo was the connection I missed.

Leo: Indeed they do have such proof, Liu. Before we met you, we used to say that fireworks were amongst the things we, quote on quote, "stole" from you, the Chinese, and made it much better. We as Americans do what the regional fast food chain known as Braum's (based out of Oklahoma City) claims they do: we make everything better.