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RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 05-21-2017
I got to thinking of Pennsylvania Dutch country. Don't laugh, sauerkraut?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 05-21-2017
I'm not laughing because you are 100% correct! Great work.
I won't stretch it out any further as to why the Southerners wanted the sauerkraut. It is known to prevent scurvy, something that bothered the Confederate forces. It is said that the folks of Chambersburg were amazed at that demand because it was in the month of June, and kraut was/is considered a winter vegetable because it was easily preserved.
My next clue would have been to state that this is considered an ethnic food even today.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-22-2017
(05-21-2017, 07:29 PM)L Verge Wrote: My next clue would have been to state that this is considered an ethnic food even today.With this clue sauerkraut would have been the very last that had come to my mind (anyway - kudos, Bill!!!) "Ethic food" is "usually" something exotic and exciting...(so Burgers would count as ethnic food, too?!)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 05-22-2017
Thank my German background for that one.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-22-2017
That was one hard question, Laurie. Good job, Bill!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 05-22-2017
The source for this was a small cookbook on CW recipes put out in the 1980s. It includes instructions for preparing sauerkraut from slicing the cabbage all the way through to how long to let it ferment. That stuff was hard work! We actually have an antique kraut stomper in the kitchen at Surratt House. I doubt seriously that Mrs. Surratt ever made kraut since the German presence was just starting in Southern Maryland at her time. However, that stomper is so big and so menacing that we keep it there to show how a 19th-century woman might tame her husband -- just saying.
My grandmother was the only one at our table who liked sauerkraut, so I ate very little of it when I was a child. My father always said that it might be good if he could get the smell past his nose. One of my friends had a mother who made sauerkraut a staple in many a dinner. The first time I was at her house, she plopped a helping on my plate. I had been taught good manners, so I tackled it the way I did a lot of green, leafy veggies in those days -- I held my breath and swallowed. I had no sooner endured that helping when she said, "You must have enjoyed that, Laurie, here's some more..." No good deed goes unpunished.
Now, in my old age, I have decided that sauerkraut has some redeeming features, especially when served properly (like on top of a hot dog!). For some reason, those yucky vegetables of yesteryear (kale, collards, swiss chard, etc.) now taste better.
Eva, I have never thought of ethnic food as exotic, just more or less a symbol of individual cultures. It is amazing to me how many ethnic foods are readily available in markets today. I've decided, however, that grits are 100% better than hummus,,,
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 05-22-2017
I am of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, but have never been able to tolerate sauerkraut. The only place where I was served sauerkraut that I could stomach was one time at a restaurant near Strasbourg, France. Also, since Chambersburg, PA has been mentioned in this thread; my father grew up near there in a small town called "Marion."
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 06-19-2017
What famous comedian (deceased) was portrayed in an issue of Mad magazine as a professor grading Lincoln on his Gettysburg Address?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Susan Higginbotham - 06-19-2017
I'm going to guess Don Rickles.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 06-19-2017
Good guess but incorrect.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-20-2017
Ernie Kovacs?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 06-20-2017
Another good guess but not him. Clue: he appeared as a guest on You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 06-20-2017
Milton Berle?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-20-2017
Red Skelton?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 06-20-2017
The answer is found here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodles_Weaver