Who the fuck hates Sauerkraut?
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Every single morning my mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast. A big bowl of sauerkraut. Every single morning. It was driving me crazy. I said to my mom, I said "Hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?" And my dear, sweet mother she just looked at me like a cow looks at an oncoming train and she leaned right down next to me and she said "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU" and then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old.
That is a joke, right?
These are lyrics from Weird Al's famously lengthy song Albuquerque. It's worth a listen if you're willing to make that kind of commitment.
We're breaking up and I'll never see you again. But that's just the way things go
It’s only like 11 minutes, it ain’t that long, Alice’s restaurant is 18 minutes.
Ether way great songs to put on the aux on a long car ride to confuse everyone in the car.
Another good lengthy one is "Tosche Station" by the Gregory Brothers. Also great for star wars fans!
Albuquerque is notable because not only is it long, it's also fast!
It's from Albuquerque by Weird Al.
im the fuck who hates sauerkraut
my mom used to make me eat it to punish me. i can still very vividly remember what it tastes and smells like and how much i hate it
but i fucking love kimchi so much
Sauerkraut and mashed potatoes were my absolutely favorite dish as a kid.
Am German though, so...
Mhhh… yeah… with some Bratwurst or Braten… 🤤🤤🤤
One Word: Schupfnudeln
Anyone with a functioning nose, for starters.
My stomach. Every time I try it, I get stomach pain and heartburn. And it doesn't happen with Kimchi.
the same people who turned their nose up at my love of sauerkraut for years and told me how gross it is because "icky smell" are suddenly all about kimchi and i'm convinced it's 100% some orientalism shit
Korean culture, specifically KPop, is having its moment in the sun which means anything tangentially associated will be popular for a while.
Don't forget the Korean Zombie movies.
They don't deserve it's refreshing sourness!
I'm starting to think that the sauerkraut that people eat in the anglosphere is actually rank. I hate the smell and taste of most cabbage-derived vegetables, but the sauerkraut I've had in Germany never had that typical cabbage-smell.
BuT, bUt, BuT, iT's sO eXoTiC and kawaii and other terms vaguely associated to Asia in American pop culture.
Or, hear me out: Kimchi tastes good, while Sauerkraut tastes like Ass on a plate.
That plus kimchi has spices in it, and also hasn’t been around long enough, in mainstream American culture, to be reduced to the absolute abyss of quality that modern American food industry eventually pushes everything to.
Sauerkraut has spices too (especially caraway seeds ~~fennel~~) but usually not hot spices, unlike kimchi
Here in southern Germany it's caraway. Both make it easier on the stomach
That's it! I knew fennel didn't sound exactly right.
I love sauerkraut :3
Me too its so good~
Stop trying to sew division in the fermented food community. They are all great and needed for a healthy gut microbiome. Shit I even drink kefir and people look at me weird.
Also, if you don't like sauerkraut, then you are probably eating bad quality. I like the Clevand Brothers brand. The roasted garlic sauerkraut is sooo good.
Yeap, Korean people generally enjoy sauerkraut. Not all types of kimchi has a ton of spices in it. In fact, kimchi predates hot peppers being available in Asia. I've had some traditional versions that are mainly ginger, garlic, and some szeschuan peppercorn.
Yep, there are plenty of forms of kimchi with very different ingredients. They're all just taking advantage of lactobacillus fermentation, same as sauerkraut, so you get the same kind of tang as it 'ripens'.
I almost cited that brand as the one I think US Americans are trying and thinking they don't like sauerkraut 😅
😂 Maybe there are better brands I don't know about, but the kind I tried at restaurants and 7/11 are just awful.
7/11!? 😱 Lol, I bet! Bubbie's is my go-to, but it's hella expensive
People look at you weird for drinking kefir? But it's fucking delicious.
Yeah store bought sauerkraut is usually shit, self made one is the shit though!
Both are delicious.
Exact opposite here. Not a fan of kimchi but I could eat kraut straight from the jar.
I do eat kraut from the jar
Kimchi ferments 1-2 Days.
Sauerkraut ferments for a total of 3-6 weeks. The first stage (of 3) of fermentation is already longer than the whole fermentation of kimchi.
I like both but they are completely different
That's mass produced kimchi. The o.g. kimchi ferments for about the same 3-6wk amount of time (tastes better too) but is much more expensive.
Both are great
They don't know how much I love them both.
uhm, kimchi isn't sweet tho
I don't think I've ever had "sweet" sauerkraut. Is that an american thing?
I'm American and never heard of it, but I also wouldn't be surprised.
Kimchi can be sweet, but mostly from the cabbage during early stages of the fermentation. It's definitely more of a underlying flavor, though.
One has spices, the other one… well it can have spices but often doesn’t. I’ve had some great sauerkraut but I’ve also had some vinegary cabbage claiming to be sauerkraut, so I can see why some people would be turned off.
Just wait till you try some sauerkraut balls
https://www.reneeskitchenadventures.com/2020/08/sauerkraut-balls.html?m=1