• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As an American, going to any German-themed public event (read: Oktoberfest and uhh… that’s about it) convinces me that your greatest culinary achievement is sausage with mustard and sauerkraut. Not too shabby, TBH.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, if it’s more popular in other regions of Germany, but I’ve only had plain sauerkraut once in my life. 🙃

      Only real dish involving sauerkraut around here is Krautschupfnudeln:

      And well, by roasting the sauerkraut, it caramelizes a little bit and some of the vinegar dissipates, so it doesn’t actually taste as sauer anymore.

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        1 year ago

        we also had schupfnudeln with sauerkraut, but with chopped bacon added.

        asside from that, i also know mashed potatos with kassler (cured pork),
        Leberwurst(loose sausage that is usualy used as a spread)
        and blutwurst(blood sausage)
        boiled in sauerkraut, as a Christmas classic.

        (both sausages were loose and squeezed out of the casing)

        i also remember grandpa snacking on cold raw plain sauerkraut for dinner.
        but he was the only person i know that ate it like that.

        but i dont remember any other dishes ive eaten with sauerkraut in it.

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          no, i do that too, but grandpa is where i picked the habit up from. it’s crunchy tasty homemade sauerkraut though, not that store-bought shit.