Hongisms
Polo shirt
This figure is famous for his improvised speech where he started with the words, "I have a dream"
MLK
This president is shown awarding himself a medal in a popular meme. The original photo showed this president awarding the presidential medal of freedom to Bruce Springsteen.
Barrack Obama
For most gacha games, where players spend money to roll for characters of varying rarity, this number of stars often represents the highest rarity.
Five
This popular Chinese American dish involves stir frying a variety of tasty ingredients with egg noodles.
Chow Mein
This artist is known for the line "My Anaconda Don't" and has been sampled prominently in a more recent hit song in 2014.
Sir Mix-A-Lot
In a meme with two panels, this artist is shown disapproving in the top panel and then approving in the bottom panel. The source of this meme was a music video that inspired many memes and parodies, including a Super Bowl 50 commercial by T-Mobile that also featured this artist.
Drake
This historical figure, which most modern historians agree was probably not real, is known for fighting against the Saxons. However, in a popular Japanese mobile game, this person is depicted as a blond waifu in a blue dress, wielding a two handed sword called Excalibur.
King Arthur or Artoria
When seasoning carbon steel wok, it is necessary to have this common kitchen ingredient on hand. Without this ingredient, it is impossible to build a non-stick patina on the cookware.
Cooking Oil
This song was heavily memed with a memorable music video featuring four men representing the four classical elements. This song's music video was a response to earlier criticism that the artist was only popular because his videos featured beautiful dancing women. Surprising, the music video for this song cost $1.29 million USD adjusted for inflation due to the cost of blue screen technology at the time.
Tunak Tunak Tun
While the Gacha games genre originates from Japan, this country now seeks to become the industry leader for gacha games with very popular titles such as Azur Lane, Arknights, and Genshin Impact. This country also boasts the largest consumer for spending on Gacha games.
China
Known as one of the five basic tastes or flavors, this flavor responds to glutamates, which are commonly added to Chinese American dishes. Most western scholars had identified four basic tastes by the early 20th century, but most scholars now recognize this flavor as the fifth taste.
Unami or Savouriness
This small town had a mayor that later become known for his star role in the meme "Once again, I am asking for your financial support." This town is just 151 km south of Montreal and has a population of just 42,417. This small town also shares its name with a Halton Region electoral district that has been represented in the house of commons since 1979.
Burlington, Vermont
This ship is the poster girl for the gacha game Azur Lane. In game, she is depicted with silver hair, which is a nod to the historical ship's nickname "The Grey Ghost." This ship was so pivotal in the second world war that many fictional ships were named after her today, including Captain Kirk's ship in Star Trek.
The Enterprise
This Japanese dish was first invented in Tokyo in 1899 and was originally considered a type of yōshoku (western influenced cooking). It is generally served with a thick brown sauce and rice, but is also quite versatile. This dish can be used as a sandwich filling (similar to a hamburger) or served in combination with curry and rice. This deep fried dish has variants using beef and chicken, but the original dish uses pork.
This country is the source of the meme with 4 panels , math equations, and a confused blond lady. In fact, this country produced the telenovela, in which the confused blond lady was played by Renata Sorrah. This country deployed their strong meme force in the 58th Annual Grammy Awards when they propelled their preferred artist to the top of the fan nominations. Unfortunately, the Grammy officials rescinded those votes. Later, this country also started Primeira Guerra Memeal against Portugal that escalated quite quickly when the Portuguese memers claimed that Ronaldo was a better football player than any person in this country.
Brazil
This gacha game is the 3rd highest grossing mobile game. Released on February 20th, 2012, this game was downloaded 18 million times in Japan one year after release, which is approximately 10% of the Japanese population. It features gameplay common for games in the puzzles and RPG category. It has also featured collaborations with many other properties, including Dragon Ball Kai. The gacha mechanic allows players to purchase monster eggs, which hatch into rare monsters (or trash monsters ymmv).
Puzzle & Dragons
Originally, ducks were sourced from this Chinese city to prepare the luxurious dish known as Peking duck. This city served as the capital of most ancient Chinese emperors after AD 229, but was brutally ravaged by the Japanese army during the second world war. Just like how the uncreatively named current capital of Beijing translates into Northern Capital, this city's name translates into Southern Capital.
Nanjing or Nanking