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| Ode to Sauerkraut | |
| By Talisker | ||||||||||
| 16 September 2006 | ||||||||||
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I don't think this needs any explanation. Oli I thought I wouldn’t like you, most noble sauerkraut, But that’s before I understood what you were all about. Finely sliced white cabbage, fermented by bacteria, Eaten from the Alsace to the steppes of far Siberia. Lacto fermentation is the secret of your flavour, Alsatian choucroute garnie is indeed a dish to savour. The seductive combination of sauerkraut with pork, A marriage made in heaven consummated on my fork. Served with humble bratwurst or a frankfurter or two, Relished in the beerhalle with a stein of German brew. Carried by brave Cook in the hold of the Endeavour, Your multifarious vitamins meant no scurvy whatsoever. When came the great depression, you saved a generation, Of starving rural farmers from a desperate situation. Their only source of sustenance in Winter’s bitter cold, You gave the young a chance to live, to nurse the ailing old. And now we find for bird flu, your effect is efficacious, Praise be to greater power who in his wisdom graced us! The Shipbuilder of proud Gdansk to city slick Berliner, What man can cast a scornful eye on such a noble dinner? So raise your glasses one and all to join me in this toast ! The benefits of sauerkraut no other food can boast. Here’s to cabbage! Here’s to brine! Hurrah lactobacillus! Our bellies filled with your result, no malady can kill us! Oli.
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