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KOTD: The gateway fermented food 30

A look at the neo-hippy-dippy Portland Kraut Collective. Of course The Man killed the print version — we all know what happens when the proletariat seizes the means of kraut production … yeah, we end up with signs of a libertine society in decline like this:

At first there’s talk of separating nightshades (tomatoes, chiles, eggplant…) and some of the more pungent ingredients such as garlic, ginger and onions so that they can be added sparingly at the end but that’s overtaken by a more festive approach as folks clear their boards with abandon into buckets and crocks.

Charles Murray is not happy with this approach, and frankly neither am I.

(OK, I confess: one summer in college, I played water organ for the Portland Kraut Collective. But that was in my wayward Krautskyite days; today I’m a Krautssian neo-preservative.)

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30 thoughts on “KOTD: The gateway fermented food

  1. Leopold Bloom Jan 8,2010 6:41 am

    the problem with the online version is that it cuts the end of the piece

    Do they only have “so much” internet or…?

    I kinda liked what the hippies did with the kraut…

    Sauerkraut is an easy gateway fermented food for the home cook

    I started with sauerkraut, but soon I was fermenting everything–artichokes, hams, tuna sammiches, my dog…it’s like I couldn’t stop. I started robbing liquor stores in order to pickle more things…

    • andeux Jan 8,2010 10:05 am || Up

      I started out on burgundy sauerkraut
      But soon hit the harder stuff

      TINSTAAFK
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 8,2010 12:12 pm || Up

      They came for the sauerkraut makers, but I didn’t speak up because I didn’t ferment cabbage. Then they came for the picklers, but I didn’t speak up because I didn’t pickle. Finally, they came for those of us who distilled pure vinegar into crack-like rocks and smoked it…and there was no one left to speak up for me.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Leopold Bloom Jan 8,2010 12:33 pm || Up

        Besides, I was high as HELL!

      • green star oakland Jan 8,2010 1:57 pm || Up

        Pasteurizer Niemöller, I presume.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  2. FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 8,2010 7:47 pm

    Hey, something in today’s Grill is now autodirecting my browser to “MyBookFace.net”, anyone else having that problem?

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • monkeyball Jan 8,2010 7:51 pm || Up

      Yep, mine too.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • Ice Cream Jan 8,2010 8:16 pm || Up

        me three

        Where is the good in "good-bye"?
        • green star oakland Jan 8,2010 8:23 pm || Up

          Me four – I had a quick look at the page source but didn’t immediately see anything suspicious.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • Ice Cream Jan 8,2010 8:30 pm || Up

            That’ll teach y’all to piss off xbx.

            Again.

            Where is the good in "good-bye"?
            • green star oakland Jan 8,2010 8:31 pm || Up

              I think I just fixed it … is it working for others now?

              If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
              • salb918 Jan 8,2010 8:32 pm || Up

                Works for me, too. What did you change?

                • green star oakland Jan 8,2010 8:43 pm || Up

                  It’s really fucking weird.

                  I had added a comment to the Grill about the fact that the full body airport scanners also violate UK laws on child p0rnography. But apparently if you include the phrase “child p0rnography” in a comment, that page then auto-redirects to whatever this MyBookFace place is.

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • salb918 Jan 8,2010 8:53 pm || Up

                  Thanks for fixing that. That is really weird.

                • 5Aces Jan 8,2010 9:06 pm || Up

                  Is MyBookFace anything like showing her you “o” face?

                  Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
                • salb918 Jan 8,2010 9:10 pm || Up

                  No, mybookface is the face that LB makes when he reads Joyce. It’s kind of like an o face.

                • Leopold Bloom Jan 9,2010 12:17 am || Up

                  it’s tough to read such a big book one-handed.

                • monkeyball Jan 8,2010 10:05 pm || Up

                  O face

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • salb918 Jan 9,2010 10:20 am || Up

                  No, that’s more like mybukkakeface.

                • monkeyball Jan 9,2010 10:39 am || Up

                  BFF!

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • nevermoor Jan 8,2010 10:56 pm || Up

                  Very very strange. Nothing I did (afaik). Maybe oblique has thoughts.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • green star oakland Jan 8,2010 11:02 pm || Up

                  I wonder if it’s a wordpress thing, or a host thing.

                  Fortunately “clown pornography” is perfectly safe.

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • nevermoor Jan 8,2010 11:06 pm || Up

                  If it’s a host thing I actually sort of think that’s awesome.

                  It is certainly not a wordpress thing.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • oblique Jan 11,2010 10:08 am || Up

                  Well, I’m late on the draw, and have been far more absent than I’d have liked. But, that’s really weird….

                  (and I haven’t made any changes to the sites yet; I’ve gotten as far as making a backup of the dev area, which is not particularly far!)

                  Google searches say that apparently these redirects show up pretty frequently. But I was afraid to put our offending phrase into the search terms from work….

                • oblique Jan 11,2010 10:15 am || Up

                  Here’s a theory:

                  Apparently when our hosting company suspends an account, all the pages redirect to MyBookFace.com, according to this link.

                  So, perhaps the hosting company automatically screens for certain offending phrases on specific pages, and “suspends” those by redirecting them as well?

                • green star oakland Jan 11,2010 10:30 am || Up

                  That would certainly make sense, although it’s a blunt tool for prevention. My guess is that primarily they don’t want to show up on searches for the offending term.

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • nevermoor Jan 11,2010 10:45 am || Up

                  Yep. And, given that they offer a ton of space/bandwidth/etc for $0, I don’t mind them doing that.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball Jan 11,2010 10:47 am || Up

                  Can they have $0?

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • Ice Cream Jan 8,2010 8:37 pm || Up

                Works now. Thanks, gso.

                Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got 217 comments to slog through catch up on.

                Where is the good in "good-bye"?

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