Delete Sauerkraut

Yes, yes I know it's healthy, and cheap, and cabbage-lovers would weep, but my god, the SMELL!

no.

IS too!

Stuffed cabbage, potato pierogi, cuppa borscht, and apple sauce: food of the Gods. Must. Not. Delete. Kraut.

Delete Sauerkraut

Now you've gone too far.

Next thing I know, you people will be defending potatoes.

Boil'em, mash'em, stick'em in a stew!

You can't possibly be against potatoes.

Oh yes I can! Characterless mushy starch--what's to love?

Lola Sola Contra Mundum, coming soon to movie palaces everywhere

According to legend, when Tsar Peter I tried to introduce the potato as a food crop, Russian peasants resisted. They believed that because potatoes had "eyes," they also had a soul, and it would be a sin to eat them.

All of this to say: hey, Lola, leave that cabbage alone!

Uncle!

It stinks. So does corned beef and cabbage.

Delete CABBAGE!!!

Yyyy... wait, wait, wait. I'll take the red cabbages, raw, and... oh goodness me, are my beloved Brussels sprouts not a variety of c. too? Well, I forgive them.

But NO FERMENTING!

The Humble Potato: The Food Of The Gods.

Calvin Trillin on the best "stand-up" potato latke in the English-speaking world.

I was impressed enough with this description to follow in Trillin's footsteps and make the pilgrimage to M. Marks on Wentworth Street.

(We may be suffering from some sort of cross-cultural misunderstanding; but me, I'm of Baltic and German heritage, and related to lots of Poles - so when you bad-mouth sauerkraut and potatoes, you are trash-talking THE FOOD OF MY PEOPLE.)

Hold the horses! Sauerkraut is desirable and potatoes are necessary for stamppot. Gonna need that for the coming cold winter.

> 12

Brussels sprouts are fine. My current favorite salad is Brussels sprouts, with toasted pumpkin seeds and slices of Granny Smith apples, in a lemon vinaigrette.

Any cabbage smell will get you depressed in a central European Wohnsilo.

#13

The Clash of Cuisines!!!!1! Move over, Huntington.

Actually, in a pinch I'll feast on fish 'n' chips like any almost normal person. And I can DO things to potatoes you wouldn't believe. They are just not my preferred food-orientation (nor is rice, anything floury).

#16

Ha, yes!