Zurcher Geschnetzeltes. No I didn’t just sneeze with a mouth full of marshmallows. Instead, it’s one of my favourite comfort foods. Hailing from the German side of Switzerland – a country that’s famed more for its cheese, chocolate, and inability to pick sides – it’s a simple dish of strips veal, fried up with onions, white wine, cream and mushrooms. It’s usually served with a potato Rosti – essentially a great big, crispy hashbrown, or Spatzle, an extruded, delicious, knobbly egg noodle. And man, as the weather starts cooling, there’s nothing I’d want more than a belly full of the stuff.
As a bonus, because it’s Tasty Tuesday, here’s a video of American folk eating South African snacks.
In Other News: Stuff, I guess. Check the links.
Here’s the news we didn’t post because we were trying to 3D print my genitals, but couldn’t find a printer capable of working to such a miniature scale.
News
We Happy Few sounds like a zombie survival crafting sandbox
Microsoft announces Halo: The Master Chief Collection bundle
Hyrule Warriors, other spin-offs bringing new fans to core franchise
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward release date announced
Kinect interference won’t be an issue in Rock Band 4
Skyworld and SteamVR could change the way we play tabletop war games
The Kinect’s best game may come to PC, compliments of Swery
Stuff
What if we could control the Aliens?
The day I killed my hero
The first five games that I play when I upgrade my PC
Videos
Blackrock Mountain: A Hearthstone Adventure – Cinematic trailer
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. – Singalong trailer
What’s on at The Movies
Lucy Lawless joins the EVIL DEAD tv series
Sony is planning more GHOSTBUSTERS with Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt starring
This new trailer for SAN ANDREAS will have you jumping over cracks
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE is the best film to never hit the number one spot
The future is running out in this incredible new trailer for TOMORROWLAND
The gods demand a new trailer for GAME OF THRONES season 5!
China’s DMG Entertainment sign 9-figure movie development deal with comic publisher Valiant
Director Chris McQuarrie talks MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5; trailer, title, tone and more
Last Updated: March 10, 2015
Admiral Chief
March 10, 2015 at 16:02
All hail Rosti!
Man, it has been AGES since I last had Rosti. Anyone know where they sell/serve this?
Alternatively, I’ll be so happy if someone can post me their recipe
Admiral Chief
March 10, 2015 at 16:03
3d printing Geoff’s royals? THE LOLZ!!!
Geoff Murphy
March 10, 2015 at 16:14
I was almost 100% sure that joke would go the other way.
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:21
then we have to reenact the statute scene form Indiana Jones with the 3d print before the temple falls down
Admiral Chief
March 10, 2015 at 16:05
Silly ‘muricans
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:18
Who dafuq eats rusks dry??????????
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:19
savages they are
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:21
Crumbs all over the place!
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:22
nee siesa wat sal ouma sê oor dit ? geen melktert vir hulle nie
Gardos
March 10, 2015 at 16:40
REAL MEN!!! *spits out broken tooth*
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:44
Lolooooloooolool! This made my day, broken tooth.
Admiral Chief
March 11, 2015 at 07:32
Bwaaaahahaha
Sageville
March 11, 2015 at 09:38
My biggest complaint about that video…
Was there no South African around to guide these fools, rusks dry???
Hammersteyn
March 11, 2015 at 09:53
Still say they should have had some Klippies and Cola. They would immigrate immediately
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:11
THAT ANCHOVETTE SEGMENT! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:19
Too bad they didn’t get to braaivleis and Castle or even klippies and cola!
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:20
Braaivleis. Now you’re talking. Fuck Castle, but nothing beats a braai.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:21
Black label then?
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:22
You went from average to bottom of the barrel. Daym son.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:23
Shit must be Windhoek then. Most cases you’re either a Castle or a black label drinker
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:25
I prefer the craft beers usually, but when pressed to buy SAB shit I’ll live with an Amstel or Heineken.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:36
Aah I see.
*Goes back to the peasant pub 😛
Gardos
March 10, 2015 at 16:38
Craft beers from payday to 10th of the month. Cat piss until the next payday.
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:38
I don’t drink enough to have this problem. 😀
Gardos
March 10, 2015 at 16:40
Neither do I in truth! No alcohol or cigarettes leaves a lot of money for other things. I still don’t know where it all goes to though… probably coffee :/
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:40
Mine all goes into games. :/
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:23
This year I learned that you can braai with that paste: spoonful in some ghee and apply that to some tuna steaks on the braai – yum!
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:11
Something wasn’t right with those koeksisters, and where was the tea for the beskuit?
Admiral Chief
March 10, 2015 at 16:12
IKR? Who eats them dry? Idiots.
Rooibos tea + Oumas (sliced condensed milk variant) = BEST SNACK EVER
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:14
Also, uou haven’t properly experienced condensed milk rusks like that until you’ve eaten them fresh from the oven!
Also, All Bran beskuit rule! especially with coffee!
Dutch Matrix
March 10, 2015 at 16:18
Tea for the beskuit????!!!!!! TEA?????. You just made me beskyt myself!!!
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:20
XD A cousin of mine married a french girl, and she insists on eating them dry with jam
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:20
Technically, if you add jam it’s no longer dry.
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:23
Perhaps, but it’s still just as crunchy as dry ones
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:24
That’s true. Personally, I prefer it crunchy. I hate soggy rusks.
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:26
It should be somewhere in between, and only real South Africans know how long it has to be dunked to achieve the effect 😀
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:30
It’s the perfect balance of just soft enough, without letting your tea get crumbs in it.
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 16:21
Yes. Tea. Earl Grey, hot. Darjeeling. English Breakfast. Tea.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:22
Also where’s Ms. Balls Chutney?
Sageville
March 11, 2015 at 09:39
and Nick Knacks!
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:19
Never saw any like it.
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:23
they remind me of a girl i took to a dance in high school…o wait ye now i remember she was the koeksister
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:40
Bwahahahaha!
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:14
Side note: my mushroom allergy makes me want to throw up at the header image. D=
Geoff Murphy
March 10, 2015 at 16:15
You’re missing out on some amazing drugs, man.
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:16
LOL. That’s what you get from my allergy? XD
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:15
allergic to mushrooms? you poor poor soul 🙁 How do you eat pizzas and omelettes?
Admiral Chief
March 10, 2015 at 16:16
I ALMOST feel bad for Tosh
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:18
Don’t. Mushrooms are fungus. Any time someone eats one, they may as well be sucking on an Athlete’s Foot infested hobo.
Dutch Matrix
March 10, 2015 at 16:20
Ooooh lovely imagery this. Gonna recommend to my fiance we do this tonight…
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 16:21
All Funghi or just mushrooms?
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:22
Seems all. Even the spores from naturally occurring fungus makes me violently ill. Spring isn’t a fun time for me.
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 16:22
Wife too, she goes into shock and needs emergency room treatment. Not ranked high on my “amusing” stuff scale.
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:24
So I’m not the only one, wow. Who’d have thought? I don’t have it quite as bad as that, I just get violently ill – no shock or ER visits.
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 16:46
Soya. That is a big thing for my wife. But all fungus related stuff.
Also Soya, at least the way it is prepared, is not so good anyway. Used to be that Soya was grown to use as fertiliser only.
Geoffrey Tim
March 10, 2015 at 16:50
As a Chinese fella, I resent that. We been eating soya for roughly forever. Stuff’s bloody awesome prepared the right way, too.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 17:01
I drink it in my daily shakes, every five days or so.
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 21:42
I had to spend days looking for my daily shakes without Soya, it is sort of in a lot of different products.
Again, there is nothing wrong with Soya, I just want to protect my wife. And it is the fermentation process with soybeans, not the soybeans
HvR
March 10, 2015 at 17:27
+1, worst thing you can do to soya is use it as a meat replacement or filler.
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 20:52
Not meant to offend anyone there.
My wife has at least 7 times stopped breathing and we injected her with adrenalin to open her throat again, from soya products she unknowingly ingested.
She is allergic to all funghi, but it seems (according to the allergist) that the way Soy is handled – fermented- (when I said prepared I meant way before it gets to your kitchen). IT seems that commercial soy is fermented and that is what causes her allergy to kick in. Please note that soy is in most pre-prepared foods in the supermarket in some form or another, as an emulsifier or lecithin most typically
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/whole-soy-story
Also, off Wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean
“Prior to fermented products such as fermented black soybeans (douchi), jiang (Chinese miso), soy sauce, tempeh, natto, and miso, soy was considered sacred for its beneficial effects in crop rotation. Soy was introduced to Africa from China in the late 19th century, and is now widespread across the continent.”
My wife says if not for her allergies, then it should be all good. We have done a lot of research, and gotten advice from Wits and Tuks research teams, that studied her at the request of the allergist from Ampath, on the issue, as we dealt for several years trying to suss out the cause of her severe allergic reactions.
Again, no offence meant to you or your culture.
Geoffrey Tim
March 11, 2015 at 07:50
Nah, not offended in the slightest. 😛
Your wife’s allergies sound…terrifying. Soya is used in just about everything in some for or another.
Brady miaau
March 11, 2015 at 08:49
Thanks, I try hard not to offend
It is used in most everything AND your ancestors knew better than us clever people today. The amount of Soy consumed per meal by them vs the people in the US now is just staggering. And the US now grows 55% of the worlds Soy Crop, With China levelling in at 5%.
Very scary, that is why we cook our own foods, with no or very little commercial sauce help or stuff like that.
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:55
O_o I’m not allergic to soya at least. Soya isn’t a fungus though, just a bean with high protein content.
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 20:52
Soy products are typically fermented, is my understanding of the matter.
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:18
Say it Like this dude :
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:20
I hate that shitty show and that shitty game and their shitty beards. I’d rather eat duck shit before I watch that.
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:27
no love for rednecks ? not even to poke fun at ?
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:34
Reality shows in general
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:24
Too bad they didn’t try Marmite.
Geoffrey Tim
March 10, 2015 at 16:24
Probably would have put a thick layer on bread, and had the skin in their mouths melt off.
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:29
If the anchovette didn’t make them vomit, they’d survive the marmite.
Also, Marmite is Australian.
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 16:35
O_o Just like ACDC(still cant believe that) learn something new everyday
Geoffrey Tim
March 10, 2015 at 16:38
Marmite is british, actually. The oz folk dig their Vegemite. Which is worse.
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:39
Ah shit, you’re 100% correct. I can never quite get the distinction between the 2 though, they’re both pretty much the opposite of food. (Shit, in case anyone else was wondering).
Brady miaau
March 10, 2015 at 21:07
Not just worse……..
Wow.
HvR
March 10, 2015 at 17:03
LOL, somewhere an Australian just died of an heart attack
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:27
or the best part of any braai : braai broodjies!!
HvR
March 10, 2015 at 17:03
They have tried Oxo and Marmite (british food) and did a Vegimite vs Marmite taste off
Loftus
March 10, 2015 at 16:26
Thank you Geoff you had us all flinging our Poo because we are gamergaters earlier today or something and now you got us hungry. We are but mere animal children easily distracted!
Pariah
March 10, 2015 at 16:31
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10292278_507611369342814_7619235932691779872_n.jpg?oh=e881a824b8e4d2d2b87399a245768149&oe=55BB485E&__gda__=1433892582_e284eb3d623eb6cda8bf55d1d596a614
Matewis Jubilai
March 10, 2015 at 16:32
Romany Creams!! That’s south african right? Used to go on midnight runs to 24hr shops at filling stations to buy a box.
Kensei Seraph
March 10, 2015 at 17:06
So I emailed Alessandro this morning asking when I could expect Dying Light to be delivered and he said by Friday latest.
I got home today and guess what I completely didn’t notice lying on my desk for almost 2 hours.
https://subitclub.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1682410-poster-1280-clap2.gif
Hammersteyn
March 10, 2015 at 17:23
Still his fault. Why didn’t he tell you it’s on your desk? 😛
Kensei Seraph
March 10, 2015 at 19:21
Well right now I’m a little upset that my update that says 15 minutes and had less than 500 megs remaining has become a 1 day 4 hours update that is only 175 megs done… after it just told me it had done 10,9 gigs.
Hammersteyn
March 11, 2015 at 07:46
O_o
HvR
March 10, 2015 at 17:10
Mmmm veal, getting to that soft flavoursome meat before the realities of life toughen up that baby cow’s meat.