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2 unusual facts about Sauerkraut


Big Tancook Island

Tancook was at one time the leading producer of Sauerkraut in Canada, which was transported to market in barrels packed in the holds of Tancook schooners.

Totenmond

# Das saure Kraut (The sour herb; similar expression to Sauerkraut)


101 Ranch Oil Company

Then John G. McCaskey, the “Sauerkraut King”, a wealthy investor and young Pittsburgh adulthood friend of Marland’s reorganized the Company.

Choucroute garnie

The sauerkraut itself is usually heated with a glass of Riesling or other dry white wines or stock, and goose or pork fat.

Lewis Haines Wentz

McCaskey had made a huge fortune in the sauerkraut business and had recently become an investor and President of the 101 Ranch Oil Company located on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch property in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

Pickling

Repopulated by Bavarian settlers after the Ottoman rule, Vecsés has built up centuries of tradition producing sauerkraut so the city's name is associated with it.


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