Cool things invented in South Africa

[wrathex]

Culinary inventions

boerewors
waterblommetjie bredie
biltong
potbrood
koeksisters
beskuit - Ouma Rusks

[Arthur]

Frequency-hopping military field radio.

Automatic grenade gun.

[Thugscub]

Ratel IFV. Armscor.

[Lupus]

Razor wire afaik...

Nope that's American

[D4N]

Vernon Koekemoer

[Hemi300c]

Sight and see. Where you look in a fighter plane/heli your arms point.

[M@gn3t1c]

Necklacing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing

[DJ...]

Potjiekos

Nope. Stews on fire are most certainly not a South African invention. Nor are the pots...

Koeksusters

Nope. We certainly weren't the first to laden fried pastry in syrup. We just twisted it, although the process of twisting it is hardly South African...

listen no one makes a rusk like Ouma ok

Rusks are hardly South African. Far from it. In fact the Indians were drying "cakes" for centuries before we got a hold of the recipe...

and no one makes chutney like mrs balls.

Actually plenty of countries did long before Mrs Balls' overly sweet efforts...

boerewors..

Nope. There is no standard for boerewors and sausages were certainly not invented in SA...

Pronutro???

Hardly. Porridge in the form of ground wheat is older than the wheel...

biltong

Nope. It is the oldest form of preservation known to man...

potbrood

Nope. Potbrood is the original bread. From practically every country around the world. It is as old as un-branded Pronutro...

[Timber_MG]

The invention of boerewors would be to cover poor quality meat and fillers with so much corriander (and often MSG) as to cause a taste under-run.

Good wors can be eaten before it touches the braai and is best when eaten medium - medium rare. Spiced with salt and pepper only. Once you know a real sausage, supermarket boerewors (even 90% animal content, braaiwors rubbish is 50-odd %) is like Enterprise viennas versus the real deal (German butchers)