Let me add context as information in English is harder to fight than it is in German: We're not talking about a restaurant in a village, but rather an "Alm". Essentially it's a restaurant for hikers with a very limited menu. The cows would be roaming across a large area and are essentially mobile billboards. You don't look at the cows while you're sitting there to choose what you pick. Instead you're hiking, read "apple juice" on the side of a cow and think: "Hey, I'm kinda in the mood for apple juice." The job of painting the cows was indeed performed by an actual hairdresser.
with that closing mention of QR codes, I was so ready for someone to riff about someone trying to precisely dye all those little monochrome squares onto the side of a cow
SPOILER: In many countries the professional hair dye is regulated so that you need to have a license/certification to purchase and legally use it. It is likely they had to use certified/licensed staff to use and apply it.
Specifically, some of the bleaching chemicals are regulated, at least in stronger concentrations, which is why boxed hair dye is more likely to give your new blonde 'do that lovely yellow-orange hue than going to an actual salon.
for those wondering, the default setup for a fries kapsalon is : take a vegetable/oven tray that kebab places have fill with: fries doner kebab meat salad (usual doner salad things, spicy peppers optional) baked over in an oven with (gouda style) cheese, served traditionally with sambal and garlic sauces. a medium one is usually around ~1000 kcal/ 4MJ's worth of food, so half an active adult woman's daily requirement. The large generally hits nearly double that. They currently cost a bit less then a relatively plain macdonalds/burger king adults menu in most places i've seen (6-10 euros), and you can get them in pretty much every city and larger town.
Australia has something similiar called a HSP - halal snack pack. Chips(fries), cheese, either lamb or chicken kebab meat or mixed if you're feeling adventurous, and then sauces. The standard sauces being the holy trinity of bbq, garlic aoili, and hot sauce.
@@davidbevan71 you can get it pretty much in everywhere except very small towns. If it's big enough to have a school, there should be one. it's usually sold by the doner kebab shops/turkish fast food places. some of the local "snackbars" that sell fried foods with way too big menus might also occasionally have them, depending on the owner.
Definitely more appetising than the Scottish equivalent, a munchy box. Specifics differ from place to place, but in general it's a pizza box filled with kebab meat, chips (or fries if you speak simplified English), and an assortment of deep fried stuff like pakoras and mozzarella sticks. Seen a few that do a pizza crunch (which is a whole small pizza, battered and deep fried) or battered burger patty in it
There is thinking outside of the box and then there is Melissa Fernandes somewhere off in another universe. Hope the next few videos with her in it has more of this.
As an Austrian living in the Netherlands, I gained a remarkable amount of new cultural insights about both, Austria and the Netherlands, from this video. Thank you!
My thoughts immediately went to Douglas Adams' "The restaurant at the end of the universe" where the beef animals to be slaughtered walk around chatting to the guests, offering themselves and arguing why they'd be delicious. Don't remember if it's the book or the original radio play, though.
It was played in the TV show by Peter Davidson (boyfriend at the time of Sandra Dickinson who played Trillian). He is better known as the Fifth Doctor in Dr Who.
@@PixelatedPenfoldgiven the actual and in-whoniverse relations between Peter Davison and David Tennant, now I'm wondering if Sandra also has any connections with David. 😂 Edit: oh, right, Georgia is actually Peter's daughter from his marriage with Sandra. 😅
3:41 Tom: "...and I just wanted to share that information" I was expecting this story to end with "and that is something you might not have known", going back to the roots.
On the "Kapsalon" thing: There is a Station in Rotterdam, that's got the nickname "Kapsalon" (Rotterdamers REALLY love to give things nicknames). It's called like that, because it's roof ia made of kinda "crumbled" aluminium (to prevent strong reflections from the sun) and so resembles the alumunium dishes, the "kapsalon" menu is usually served in. Try to get a tourist to understand that reference 😂
In Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, there used to be a barber shop where you could get a beer while you were getting your hair cut. That was 15 years ago. Not sure if it still exists.
I figured it out about a minute before Tom. I would have first thought if going to put a menu on cattle, that you would use branding irons, but if the menu changes, gotta go with dye.
I immediately went to "fancy ski resort" - you're really into skiing so you're looking out at the beautiful hills and thinking of all the skiing you plan to do tomorrow, but also this restaurant has a dress code, so they have a hairdresser on staff to fix your windblown hair resulting from all the skiing you did today.
I'm currently in dry dock in the Netherlands and listening to this episode led me to try Kapsalon and oh my it was heavenly! The salad on top was like pre-emptively atoning for the meaty cheesey goodness below 😋
The Kapsalon variant was n Sweden is the “kababtallrick” (kebab plate) and in Australia it’s the Halal Snack Pack. All the same basic concept of a kebab on chips.
"Are the diners humans?" would have been my first question as well, just because I sort of know how the question-writers' minds work. "Are the diners humans _or animals,"_ though, isn't really a dichotomy. 😉
Memories of The Restaurant at the end of the Universe when Tom mentioned picking out the cow you were wanting to eat. 'Try my left haunch, I've been fattening it up'.
As a Dutch guy, the moment the word "Austrian" showed up in the question, I knew this was not going to be about the Kapsalon, so it's fun to hear Tom refer to the Kapsalon anyway.
Read the wikipedia page for Kapsalon - amazingly, it only started in 2003; the man who invented it died only at age 47. It brings together Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian influences. Now I’m hungry…
It's not in this clip, but in this episode: You talked about "double-glazed windows." In the US, we just call them "double-paned." Also, while Vacuum Insulated Glass does exist, pretty much all of what you find in homes actually use a gas with lower thermal conductivity than air, usually Argon (making a window strong enough to hold a vacuum is more expensive than just using a different gas).
Yep, he's still here, guys. he's not quit, i believe that he's still going to make videos but not as much as he used to. meanwhile we can watch this instead !!
How did i not know about this sooner? These are so entertaining, full of creators I like, yet it took the formal end of Tom Scott to find this podcast.
Near the end, I was starting to think they dyed the information about the cows that are butchered and cooked on the spot, basically serving you the freshest steak possible. The only thing bugging me was that you can't possibly eat a cow in one sitting.
This exact same question was asked in a german TV show years ago, that is even somewhat similar to Lateral. It's the first two minutes of this clip. Comes with a picture too. th-cam.com/video/N2AYtZFZgZI/w-d-xo.html (The clip is a compilation of some of the fastest answers ever given in that show)
Couldn’t find the restaurant, but I found that an Australian artist, Emma Hack, (Bit of a spoiler) makes painting on cows. And painting cows like zebras keeps flies at bay
I found info that it might be called "Das Heurigenlokal" in Grinzing area of Vienna. I think the name means "wine tavern", so that complicates searching, but I also found info that suggests the cows might not be actual live cows, but possibly wooden life size ones. Whatever, I give up.
Would've been nice to put an image in the video or at least a link to it. For others it's the first Google image result when searching "arriach cow menu", and the only image it seems. Pretty much just a giant word or 2 on each cow
At first, I thought the restaurant and the farm were owned by the same party, and that they had sheep being bred on the farm to keep the restaurant supplied with fresh lamb and mutton, and so they had to be sheared every now and again to keep them presentable. Not the worst first guess, but not quite on target either.
My first thought was that sheep were being fed there, and occasionally got trimmed. 😅 Would've been a bit weird to call the shearer a hairdresser or barber though, I guess.
My first thought was that the cattle/sheep/etc were the diners and the farmers wanted them coiffed very specifically, and it easier to 'get hold of them' while the animals ate. The actual thing? Yeah, that's very silly and novel as a 'hook' to get patron to visit your establishment. :)
Spoilers below 'arriach cow dye menu' gives no results on Google sadly and 'cow dye menu' alone makes google think I'm looking for dying cows. I wanted to see a picture of this.
This is one of the three video clips we release each week from the audio version (which has 7 questions). The videos are to spread the word about the audio show, essentially.
I love how Sabrina cudnt not give the correct answer to the question "Are the diners humans or animals?", of Yes. Humans are animals, but we all know what someone rly means there... But still, logical brain demands the correct answer even if followed up by clarifier
Please bring back Lateral as one entire video. I don't like podcasts, especially when I know that there's video floating around that will improve the experience.
We're not a fan of TH-cam Podcasts, for various reasons, but our podcast provider should be implementing a solution for full video sometime early this year.
Let me add context as information in English is harder to fight than it is in German:
We're not talking about a restaurant in a village, but rather an "Alm". Essentially it's a restaurant for hikers with a very limited menu. The cows would be roaming across a large area and are essentially mobile billboards. You don't look at the cows while you're sitting there to choose what you pick. Instead you're hiking, read "apple juice" on the side of a cow and think: "Hey, I'm kinda in the mood for apple juice."
The job of painting the cows was indeed performed by an actual hairdresser.
Die Kuh macht also nicht nur Muh, sondern auch noch Werbung? D:
What's its name? I'd really like to google it
@@KernelLeak :D :D
Thank you
And as it is no billboard, they probably get around doing the paperwork required to advertise...
That restaurant might need to give a new meaning to the instruction "no tipping"
with that closing mention of QR codes, I was so ready for someone to riff about someone trying to precisely dye all those little monochrome squares onto the side of a cow
My thought exactly
Fun fact: QR codes are really good at error correction, so you don't have to be all that precise.
@@NYKevin100 it has 4 levels of error correction. 7%, 15%, 25% and 30%
@@NYKevin100 Do have to be precise enough to get the complete data on there at least somewhere though.
Stencil?
SPOILER:
In many countries the professional hair dye is regulated so that you need to have a license/certification to purchase and legally use it. It is likely they had to use certified/licensed staff to use and apply it.
Specifically, some of the bleaching chemicals are regulated, at least in stronger concentrations, which is why boxed hair dye is more likely to give your new blonde 'do that lovely yellow-orange hue than going to an actual salon.
for those wondering, the default setup for a fries kapsalon is :
take a vegetable/oven tray that kebab places have
fill with:
fries
doner kebab meat
salad (usual doner salad things, spicy peppers optional)
baked over in an oven with (gouda style) cheese, served traditionally with sambal and garlic sauces.
a medium one is usually around ~1000 kcal/ 4MJ's worth of food, so half an active adult woman's daily requirement. The large generally hits nearly double that.
They currently cost a bit less then a relatively plain macdonalds/burger king adults menu in most places i've seen (6-10 euros), and you can get them in pretty much every city and larger town.
I NEED! to eat this! I'm forgetting what's in the video but Netherlands right?, is it regional? Do I get it from a particular type of shop
Australia has something similiar called a HSP - halal snack pack. Chips(fries), cheese, either lamb or chicken kebab meat or mixed if you're feeling adventurous, and then sauces. The standard sauces being the holy trinity of bbq, garlic aoili, and hot sauce.
@@treksez I wonder why I just ate a large meal and am drooling.
@@davidbevan71 you can get it pretty much in everywhere except very small towns. If it's big enough to have a school, there should be one. it's usually sold by the doner kebab shops/turkish fast food places. some of the local "snackbars" that sell fried foods with way too big menus might also occasionally have them, depending on the owner.
Definitely more appetising than the Scottish equivalent, a munchy box. Specifics differ from place to place, but in general it's a pizza box filled with kebab meat, chips (or fries if you speak simplified English), and an assortment of deep fried stuff like pakoras and mozzarella sticks. Seen a few that do a pizza crunch (which is a whole small pizza, battered and deep fried) or battered burger patty in it
There is thinking outside of the box and then there is Melissa Fernandes somewhere off in another universe. Hope the next few videos with her in it has more of this.
I had very similar ideas at first. Was this a restaurant serving animals, both food and hairdressing?
Melissa taking about cutting and eating hair after it was established that it was about dyes and the menu is the biggest 180 I’ve seen lol
I want Tom to invite the Technical Difficulties to make the 100th podcast. Tom, plz make it happen.
After establishing it's about the menu, Tom was so close and then the other two just came up with the worst guesses I have ever heard in my life 💀
This is the first time I immediately thought "oh this is obvious" on Lateral. But somehow we got "eating animal hair"???
As an Austrian living in the Netherlands, I gained a remarkable amount of new cultural insights about both, Austria and the Netherlands, from this video. Thank you!
My thoughts immediately went to Douglas Adams' "The restaurant at the end of the universe" where the beef animals to be slaughtered walk around chatting to the guests, offering themselves and arguing why they'd be delicious. Don't remember if it's the book or the original radio play, though.
It’s definitely in the book at least. Could be both.
It's in both.
it's in the book and TV series, not sure about the radio plays.
It was played in the TV show by Peter Davidson (boyfriend at the time of Sandra Dickinson who played Trillian). He is better known as the Fifth Doctor in Dr Who.
@@PixelatedPenfoldgiven the actual and in-whoniverse relations between Peter Davison and David Tennant, now I'm wondering if Sandra also has any connections with David. 😂
Edit: oh, right, Georgia is actually Peter's daughter from his marriage with Sandra. 😅
For those searching, the restaurant name is Neugarten Almseehütte. 👍
Thank you! 90% of comments are about kapsalom.
3:41 Tom: "...and I just wanted to share that information"
I was expecting this story to end with "and that is something you might not have known", going back to the roots.
On the "Kapsalon" thing:
There is a Station in Rotterdam, that's got the nickname "Kapsalon" (Rotterdamers REALLY love to give things nicknames). It's called like that, because it's roof ia made of kinda "crumbled" aluminium (to prevent strong reflections from the sun) and so resembles the alumunium dishes, the "kapsalon" menu is usually served in.
Try to get a tourist to understand that reference 😂
but that's not related to the dish origin story.
Yessss please have these 3 on more
In Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, there used to be a barber shop where you could get a beer while you were getting your hair cut. That was 15 years ago. Not sure if it still exists.
Answer in Progress are a fantastic trio of people, love seeing them, and Let's Learn Everything, on the show!
As someone from the Netherlands, I had my cry when the inventor of the kapsalon passed away. He truly is the national hero of our century.
Melissa, I love the way your mind works!
I figured it out about a minute before Tom. I would have first thought if going to put a menu on cattle, that you would use branding irons, but if the menu changes, gotta go with dye.
Hope things are more relaxed now for you Tom
I immediately went to "fancy ski resort" - you're really into skiing so you're looking out at the beautiful hills and thinking of all the skiing you plan to do tomorrow, but also this restaurant has a dress code, so they have a hairdresser on staff to fix your windblown hair resulting from all the skiing you did today.
I'm currently in dry dock in the Netherlands and listening to this episode led me to try Kapsalon and oh my it was heavenly! The salad on top was like pre-emptively atoning for the meaty cheesey goodness below 😋
We also have Capsalons in the Czech republic, mostly in kebab stores!
Tom's digressions are often more entertaining than the actual answer. 🤣
We want to see the image!
I love this show!
The Kapsalon variant was n Sweden is the “kababtallrick” (kebab plate) and in Australia it’s the Halal Snack Pack. All the same basic concept of a kebab on chips.
@tom, please include the final image at the end as a cathartic release
We don't own the copyright, but many of the other comments here have linked to relevant pages.
Thank you Tom Scott for still posting this. Edit: I had a blast watching this.
Has anyone found a photo of this? You'd think searching "arriach restaurant cows" would get you there, but alas...
try "Neugarten Almseehütte trips4kids", I think that might be it
Arriach menu cows works
Can confirm, arriach menu cows works. IDK what I was expecting, but I was underwhelmed.
Had to switch to google but yeah "arriach menu cow" gets you the image. But literally anything your brain comes up with is gonna be more whimsical. xD
search for "Neugarten Almseehütte cows" gives some more images
6:44 completely agree with you Tom
After living in NL for 3 years, unexpectedly hearing the history of kapsalon show up here was amazing.
Tom is so right about a "Kapsalon". The moment he started that sentence I exactly new where he was going. ^^
"Are the diners humans?" would have been my first question as well, just because I sort of know how the question-writers' minds work.
"Are the diners humans _or animals,"_ though, isn't really a dichotomy. 😉
Hey I also initially thought “SHEEP RESTAURANT THEY NEED TO BE SHEARED” 😂😂😂
Show us the picture! I'm trying to find it on Google.
I've found a couple using the name of the restaurant: "almseehütte cows"
Google "arriach menu cows"
"Arriach menu cow" will get you the picture. But it's honestly a bit disappointing...
search for "Neugarten Almseehütte cows"
That Dutch chip + kebab meat dish sounds like an HSP - Halal Snack Pack - here in Australia.
Kapsalon is delicious, and the story needs to be shared!
Memories of The Restaurant at the end of the Universe when Tom mentioned picking out the cow you were wanting to eat. 'Try my left haunch, I've been fattening it up'.
As a Dutch guy, the moment the word "Austrian" showed up in the question, I knew this was not going to be about the Kapsalon, so it's fun to hear Tom refer to the Kapsalon anyway.
Kapsalon by now is available all over Europe and even in China :) I have lived in PL/CZ/DE/NL/FR and only FR didn't have them on every street corner.
Read the wikipedia page for Kapsalon - amazingly, it only started in 2003; the man who invented it died only at age 47. It brings together Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian influences. Now I’m hungry…
It's not in this clip, but in this episode:
You talked about "double-glazed windows." In the US, we just call them "double-paned." Also, while Vacuum Insulated Glass does exist, pretty much all of what you find in homes actually use a gas with lower thermal conductivity than air, usually Argon (making a window strong enough to hold a vacuum is more expensive than just using a different gas).
Aw... I wanted the picture!
We don't own the copyright, but there's some images here: www.trips4kids.de/allgemein/neugarten-almseehuette-kaernten
Ah so thats what that juggling cow judge is up to now. They're a restauranteur.
Did it ever become a cow again?
@@TheHorseOutside It was never not a cow!
I do love in jokes. This was like 3 strangers stopping in the street, shaking hands and then walking on their business.
Turra coo! In an office chair!
I wanna see the picture?
'Before the kitchen gets a stampede of orders . . . ze dog will go & round-up tonight's 'special'! : )
Yep, he's still here, guys.
he's not quit, i believe that he's still going to make videos but not as much as he used to. meanwhile we can watch this instead !!
Super cool how Tom interwove the Kapsalon in the story 😁
How did i not know about this sooner? These are so entertaining, full of creators I like, yet it took the formal end of Tom Scott to find this podcast.
Welcome!
They didn't share the image!
does anyone know the name of the restaurant? :)
Near the end, I was starting to think they dyed the information about the cows that are butchered and cooked on the spot, basically serving you the freshest steak possible. The only thing bugging me was that you can't possibly eat a cow in one sitting.
This exact same question was asked in a german TV show years ago, that is even somewhat similar to Lateral.
It's the first two minutes of this clip. Comes with a picture too. th-cam.com/video/N2AYtZFZgZI/w-d-xo.html
(The clip is a compilation of some of the fastest answers ever given in that show)
Damn that guy got it fast. Surely he already knew the answer because it's a really out there thing.
Thank you for sharing this information. Was great to see a picture.
Couldn’t find the restaurant, but I found that an Australian artist, Emma Hack,
(Bit of a spoiler)
makes painting on cows. And painting cows like zebras keeps flies at bay
I found info that it might be called "Das Heurigenlokal" in Grinzing area of Vienna. I think the name means "wine tavern", so that complicates searching, but I also found info that suggests the cows might not be actual live cows, but possibly wooden life size ones. Whatever, I give up.
Google image search "arriach menu cows"
It's the cows w/ writing on them.
I love a piece of Hair Pie.
Sabrina: Thank you, I appreciate that.
Me: I also appreciate that.
Would've been nice to put an image in the video or at least a link to it. For others it's the first Google image result when searching "arriach cow menu", and the only image it seems. Pretty much just a giant word or 2 on each cow
My Google-fu has lead me to Neugarten Almseehütte, maybe that's the place they're talking about? Spoiler if you look this up btw.
Thx
At first, I thought the restaurant and the farm were owned by the same party, and that they had sheep being bred on the farm to keep the restaurant supplied with fresh lamb and mutton, and so they had to be sheared every now and again to keep them presentable. Not the worst first guess, but not quite on target either.
My first thought was that sheep were being fed there, and occasionally got trimmed. 😅
Would've been a bit weird to call the shearer a hairdresser or barber though, I guess.
My first thought was that the cattle/sheep/etc were the diners and the farmers wanted them coiffed very specifically, and it easier to 'get hold of them' while the animals ate.
The actual thing? Yeah, that's very silly and novel as a 'hook' to get patron to visit your establishment. :)
I was kind of certain customers were sheep getting a haircut at the “restaurant”
The highland cows?
I refuse to use QR codes in general, let alone for a menu. I hate that. A few places around here try to do that. I'm like, nah, menu please.
I had a kapsalon when I was in Amsterdam and it was delicious. Granted, I was stoned, so I wasn't the best judge of what is and isn't good food.
It is a thing that you hang up containers (often tights) of human hair to attempt to scare away deer.
damn haven't even watched the video but you can tell it's already a classic
Spoilers below
'arriach cow dye menu' gives no results on Google sadly and 'cow dye menu' alone makes google think I'm looking for dying cows. I wanted to see a picture of this.
Plenty of the other comments contain the link you need.
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For the benefit of American viewers: kebab meat (like in the Dutch dish) is known as gyro meat here
Taha said somethint about haircut on cows very early on but unfortunately not acknowledged
But Tom what about scanning QR code off those bovines? No soup for you unless you have a good telephoto
Austrians call it a Kuh-R-Code.
this deserves much more likes but the pun may be lost for English-only speakers
what tom described as a "hair salon" sounds like a halal snack pack from australia.
Had a look on google images, and they are VERY similar.
I was disappointed it wasn't a purple Milka cow.
hey
So, the menu is on the cow. But is the cow also on the menu?
Tom - "It's better than scanning a QR code"
More like a Moo R code...
put a QR code on the cow, when scanned it comes up with the price of a burger...
Im kinda confused. I heared in the last month or something and i feel like i heared it on Lateral.
This is one of the three video clips we release each week from the audio version (which has 7 questions). The videos are to spread the word about the audio show, essentially.
Pics or it didn't happen.
I thought it was just grooming the animals so the view would be better, but it's actually practical. (Well, that's probably overstating it.)
Kapsalon with garlic sauce is the best food for at the end of a night drinking!
What if, QR codes on cows...
the Dutch hairdressershouldbe a woman called Donna kebab
A surprise colonoscopy is better than scanning a QR for a restaurant's menu.
It's not as hair-rowing
Cattle brands are permanent and can't be changed seasonally.
They aren't branded. The hair is dyed with a harmless vegetable-based chemical.
I love how Sabrina cudnt not give the correct answer to the question "Are the diners humans or animals?", of Yes. Humans are animals, but we all know what someone rly means there... But still, logical brain demands the correct answer even if followed up by clarifier
Please bring back Lateral as one entire video. I don't like podcasts, especially when I know that there's video floating around that will improve the experience.
We're not a fan of TH-cam Podcasts, for various reasons, but our podcast provider should be implementing a solution for full video sometime early this year.