'The most American Americana ever to America before': Polish LARPers Pretend to Be Americans and Their 'Ohio' Impression is Disturbingly Accurate

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Apr 2, 2023 12:30 PM EDT

To Europeans, American stereotypes are fascinating. We're loud, we're enormous, and most of all, we're completely untamed and unhinged as a nation. The 'Wild West' mantra is still alive and well to the Euros and they see most Americans as frontiersmen, galloping head long into the sunset with the wind at our backs, Miller High Life in our hands, and a the police hot on our trail. Although we have proven to be the renegade younger sibling of the United Nations, Americanisms never cease to surprise.

One role play troupe in Poland, a LARPing crew to be precise, recently did a showcase on what they think it's like to be truly the most American Americans ever to America before and took on the added challenge of turning themselves into Ohioans. Yes, they did their best impression of our most dystopian state: Ohio.