Great Vegetables

There's a part of Persona 4 Golden where you can plant and harvest vegetables. When you harvest them, there's a character called Dojima who just says "Great vegetables", and for some reason the line is voiced too.^[1] Joe didn't take much notice of it at first, but every time it happened, more and more people in chat kept saying it, and Joe gradually found it more and more funny. Also when you plant the vegetables, Dojima has a voiced line where he says "I haven't done this in a while", which Joe also says sometimes.

"I don't know why that's so funny. It's like placeholder dialogue that made it in."
—Joseph Anderson

Joe was playing Persona 4 Golden and Steins;Gate concurrently for a while. In the same week that the "Great vegetables" meme reached its peak in Persona 4 Golden, he got to a part in Steins;Gate where vegetables were relevant. A character called Lukako said that they always wanted to be a girl. Then another character said that they heard that if a woman eats lots of vegetables when she's pregnant then she's more likely to give birth to a girl^[2] (which isn't true, because sex is determined at conception). At this point it's important to understand that Joe already hated everything about Steins;Gate's story. In Steins;Gate, the characters can send emails back in time. So Joe said that if they send an email back in time to Lukako's mum to tell her to eat more vegetables and then Lukako turns into a girl, then he's turning the game off and he's never playing it again. Then that actually happened, and Joe stopped playing and never continued the game again.^[3]

"Great vegetables jumping from Persona 4 to Steins;Gate is one of the greatest and funniest accidents of all time on stream."
—Joseph Anderson

Every "Great vegetables" from the Persona 4 Golden streams

References

↑ “Falco” video: “Joseph Anderson Persona 4 stream 8 with chat [03/09/2021” at 00:47:35].
↑ “Falco” video: “Joseph Anderson Steins;Gate stream 5 with chat [04/03/2021” at 01:28:50].
↑ “Falco” video: “Joseph Anderson Steins;Gate stream 5 with chat [04/03/2021” at 03:49:56].

[1] “Falco” video: “Joseph Anderson Persona 4 stream 8 with chat [03/09/2021” at 00:47:35].

[2] “Falco” video: “Joseph Anderson Steins;Gate stream 5 with chat [04/03/2021” at 01:28:50].

[3] “Falco” video: “Joseph Anderson Steins;Gate stream 5 with chat [04/03/2021” at 03:49:56].

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