These are apparently not the same thing, as the Wife informed me this weekend. It’s the sparkling water debacle all over again.
These are apparently not the same thing, as the Wife informed me this weekend. It’s the sparkling water debacle all over again.
Sketches From Memory 
I think we’re going to need a visual aid for this >_<
As a chef I’m afraid I must agree with your wife on this one. Although they are both made with cabbage, one involves adding dressing and the other involves rotting. I am not a fan of “sour crout,” primarily because of its bitter and funky taste.
I don’t eat either of them, hence my confusion.
They’re two different brands of disgusting.
They are very much not the same! Sauerkraut (note the German word for cabbage in there) is pretty much a fact of the Midwest, you’re going to be asked/forced to try one variety or another at some point if you live here.
Coleslaw (note the daintier Latin/English word for cabbage) is a more boring and civilized picnic/salad bar food, and I have yet to see a local farmer’s-market vendor boasting six kinds of coleslaw. This may be in part because coleslaw, unlike the saurkrauts, is not an acceptable topping for that other staple, BEER BRATS.
I’m of the opinion that cabbage in any form is unacceptable.