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I am presently engaged in a silly argument.
The question is: Is sauerkraut a vegetable?
I would appreciate any learned opinions.

Thanks !!!!!!!

Luckyslim wrote:
I am presently engaged in a silly argument.
The question is: Is sauerkraut a vegetable?
I would appreciate any learned opinions.


Sauerkraut is a dish made with cabbage. Cabbage is a vegetable.

If you define a vegetable as a something you can grow, you can't grow
sauerkraut. (You can grow cabbage to make sauerkraut, however.)

If you define a vegetable as a type of food, sauerkraut is a vegetable as much
as sausage is a meat, or bread is a grain.

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Warren H.

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In fact it's made of shreaded cabbage that's put in and aged in a barrel,
not sure if it's sal****er or something else, but when I was in Germany, the
eating places outside of town would have a fresh barrel just outside the
door and they'd get it from there for the orders of it and it was good too!


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"Warren" wrote in message
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Luckyslim wrote:
I am presently engaged in a silly argument.
The question is: Is sauerkraut a vegetable?
I would appreciate any learned opinions.


Sauerkraut is a dish made with cabbage. Cabbage is a vegetable.

If you define a vegetable as a something you can grow, you can't grow
sauerkraut. (You can grow cabbage to make sauerkraut, however.)

If you define a vegetable as a type of food, sauerkraut is a vegetable as
much
as sausage is a meat, or bread is a grain.

--
Warren H.

==========
Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my
employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife.
Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is
coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this
response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants
to go outside now.
Your Guide to the Care and Feeding of a Suburban Lawn:
http://www.holzemville.com/community...are/index.html

yes. cabbage is salted as it is pressed down into a crock. a cover put down into the
crock to hold the cabbage below the level of the juice (weighted down). it "works"
itself over a week or more. but my Grma used to clean the scum that forms every
couple of days. http://waltonfeed.com/old/sauer.html
Ingrid

"Starlord" wrote:

In fact it's made of shreaded cabbage that's put in and aged in a barrel,
not sure if it's sal****er or something else, but when I was in Germany, the
eating places outside of town would have a fresh barrel just outside the
door and they'd get it from there for the orders of it and it was good too!



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