will you be my briny valentine?

i've fallen in love.

with sauerkraut.

there isn't much else to say, really. sauerkraut, you are perfect. salty, tangy, full of friendly bacteria because you are un-pasteurized, happily peppered with little caraway nubbins.... who needs hot dogs? i eat you by the bowl-full.

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i first came across this crispy, juicy, unpasturized sauerkraut at the annual victoria health show last weekend, and, after just one sample, bought a whole bottle (and then ate all the other samples). i mean, how could i not? it was like eating crunchy, shredded dill pickles, which, as any of you who know me will confirm, i can eat by the jar-full (pickles i'm talking about here. and olives).

other highlights of the show included this rogue band of vegan seventh-day-adventist senior citizens bent on curing the world's problem with heart disease by touting the benefits of a plant based diet; alarming looking 'probes' filled with tumbled semi-precious stones and attached to very large generators; a woman who would hold coat hangers in front of her, as dowsing rods, then move them dramatically apart from each other to show the expansion of your energy field if you put your hand on your head to "centre" yourself; and john gray himself, touting his latest 'men are from mars' book.

as soon as i noticed john gray i vowed to give that guy a piece of my mind, but as i paused to organize my fit i think i was distracted by the electric amethyst 'probes' and forgot all about him until after i had left. oh well.