Every single morning my mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast. A big bowl of sauerkraut. Every single morning. It was driving me crazy. I said to my mom, I said “Hey, mom, what’s with all the sauerkraut?” And my dear, sweet mother she just looked at me like a cow looks at an oncoming train and she leaned right down next to me and she said “IT’S GOOD FOR YOU” and then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old.

im the fuck who hates sauerkraut

my mom used to make me eat it to punish me. i can still very vividly remember what it tastes and smells like and how much i hate it

but i fucking love kimchi so much

Anyone with a functioning nose, for starters.

My stomach. Every time I try it, I get stomach pain and heartburn. And it doesn’t happen with Kimchi.

Korean culture, specifically KPop, is having its moment in the sun which means anything tangentially associated will be popular for a while.

They don’t deserve it’s refreshing sourness!

Or, hear me out: Kimchi tastes good, while Sauerkraut tastes like Ass on a plate.

I’m starting to think that the sauerkraut that people eat in the anglosphere is actually rank. I hate the smell and taste of most cabbage-derived vegetables, but the sauerkraut I’ve had in Germany never had that typical cabbage-smell.

BuT, bUt, BuT, iT’s sO eXoTiC and kawaii and other terms vaguely associated to Asia in American pop culture.

That plus kimchi has spices in it, and also hasn’t been around long enough, in mainstream American culture, to be reduced to the absolute abyss of quality that modern American food industry eventually pushes everything to.

Me too its so good~

That’s mass produced kimchi. The o.g. kimchi ferments for about the same 3-6wk amount of time (tastes better too) but is much more expensive.

I don’t think I’ve ever had “sweet” sauerkraut. Is that an american thing?