On 9/28/2013 7:40 AM, Trawley Trash wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:21:29 -0500
> I Don't Know > wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:14:56 -0700, Trawley Trash
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:36:51 -0500
>>> I Don't Know > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sauerkraut is pickled cabbage.
>>>>
>>>> Pickling does not make everything sour.
>>>
>>> However sauerkraut *is* sour.
>>
>>
>> Not always.
>
> Only if it isn't really sauerkraut.

Wrong.
I.e., I don't Know knows something you don't know.

It is going out of fashion
> even in Germany.

No, it's not.
In fact, starting this Christmas, Germans will start using Sauerkraut as
Weihnachtsbaumschmuck.
http://tinyurl.com/n63h6wy

I walked in to a small market

*In* Germany? When?

and asked for it,
> and the salesperson assured me that the "weiss Krauter Salad"

The word is Weißkrautsalat or Weisskrautsalat.

> was the same thing. It wasn't.

You finally got something right :-)
Weißkrautsalat definitely isn't the same thing as Sauerkraut.

Don Roberto
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Das Leben ist wie Sauerkraut.
Wohl dem, der es gut verdaut.
-Kalenderspruch