Toast Points For The Week of October 31st

by Mallory Ortberg · October 30, 2014

Guys! We had a week, you remember it. Here is the only thing I care about to tide you through Halloween and the rest of the weekend:

We’ll be talking a LOT about this Swedish survivalist next week, I can promise you (“Please give it a t’umbs up!”)

Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.


30 Comments

  1. CleverManka +9

    Okay, so watching this, what with the fire-building and the axe-swinging and the quite-frankly miraculous pulp removal…this is not helping my misandrist tendencies. Also the accent. And the reading off the recipe card. JFC. You get a tongues-up from me, too, dude.

    When I die, if I’ve deserved heaven (which I won’t have, but let’s not dwell on that) mine would be for him to make a video with those cigarette review teenage dirtbags.

  2. jlper +34

    I’d like to point out this exchange in the YouTube comments:

    NorwegianBushcraft
    Your cooking skills are impressive Andreas. 🙂
    Odd

    NorthSurvival
    Thank you Odd, so are your fire making skills. Take care.

    NorwegianBushcraft
    Thanks

    I love them.

  3. celery +10

    I have made cake-in-an-orange before!! I feel irrationally proud of myself now. (Unfortunately, cannot watch video at work.)

      1. celery +1

        Now that I’ve seen the video–I did not split the orange with an axe (holy cow that was impressive), and I can’t light a fire with flint and tinder (also extremely impressive), and we wrapped the oranges in aluminum foil rather than holding it together with toothpicks. I forget what recipe we used for the cake itself. Also I do not have a cute accent. But aside from all those things, this is a standard dessert option at the camp I worked at! And it is indeed delicious.

    1. fferj +3

      Yeah, i got the Merriman ad too. doesn’t exactly seem in tune w/ adorable norse survivalist to have an alleged domestic abuser on the page

  6. dcbrierton +15

    But when the misandrist takeover/zombie apocalypse/whatever drives this guy into the Swedish woods to live off of his wits and survival skills, where is he going to get an orange?

    I spent the whole video worrying about this. I mean, sure, you can take your tupperware into the woods with you, but eventually you are going to run out of oranges.

  7. AlisonB +5

    “This became a lot better than I had expected”. Pahaha.
    I’m confused why we’re going to be hearing more about this guy next week, but also intrigued. Is he one of those MRAs? I hope not.

  8. Goomaly +16

    brb, I’ll just be over here in a hammock waiting for rugged survival man to bring me baked goods

  10. tploomis +13

    I love the part where he peers down into the gooey mess and declares, “This became a lot better than I had expected!”

  16. Chthonic_Boom

    He never used the rest of the orange, he promised we were going to need it WHERE DID IT GO.