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From: The Fairfields <>
Subject: Re: Why Sauerkraut on New Year's?
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:54:36 -0500


Hi All,

My Mother, who happens to be visiting for the holidays, explains it this
way: it had more to do with the way pork used to be before big
supermarkets, etc. Pork used to be fatty and extremely rich, and if it was
smoked or frozen in the "old days" sometimes a bit questionable on the
"shelf life", the sauerkraut cut the richness of the fatty meat and also
covered any possible "off" tastes that might occur in storage.

The combination was also considered "Good Luck" :)

A happy and successful new year to all!

Anne

>Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:59:52 GMT
>From: Helen Gillespie <>
>Subject: Re: Why Sauerkraut on New Year's?
>
>Jane Mahlig () writes:
>> Can anyone help solve a family dilemma? We ALWAYS have pork and kraut
>> on New Year's - I know the reason for the pork, but is there any
>> significance to the sauerkraut? The only answer I get from family is
>> "It's always done that way".
>>
>My mother always had Sauerkraut at New Year's because apparently it helped
>absorb the alcohol - this in the days before designated drivers and
>drinking to excess was politically incorrect. I suspect too that it had
>something to do with the fact that there were not many fresh vegetables in
>the old days and it was a staple food.
>
>
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Anne Cole Fairfield <>
P. O. Box 8 <>
Wiscasset, ME 04578
207 882-5078

Member, New England Historic Genealogy Society, Boston
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