This is one of those most repulsive and gross foods that I wouldn't even look at or touch, let alone eat!!

Yet, there are a lot of people who will go for this stuff as though it were one of the best-tasting foods around!! They can HAVE it!

Rueben Sandwiches are most often made with this crap. I've begun asking for a Rachael Rueben sandwich in which the saurkraut is replaced with Cole Slaw.

I only tried it the once and I agree it was disgusting.

Saurkraut is simply awesome. It's great on Bratwurst, Rubens, or just as a side with any sort of sausage product.

I've tried a Ruben before with Cole Slaw. I really like cole slaw, but that was the single most horrible thing I've ever eaten.

And I've eaten fried crickets.

that and coleslaw are disgusting concoctions

I'll eat cole slaw first. I grew up on that.

Fried crickets?!

Saurkraut is good, but kimchee is better!

Yea you seem like the type of person who likes to eat that.

I think its only a certain breed of people who like to eat funky tasting food. I even think its GENETIC to eat repulsive foods like Saurkraut or Coleslaw

Cole slaw, yes. Saurkraut, NO!

Thats a pretty sweeping statement. So a person is predisposed to like or dislike certain foods. And by saying its genetic you mean I inherit my food preferences. I honestly have never seen any example of that anywhere.

It's kind of funny my friends and relatives from Italy always go mad for sauerkraut when visiting me.

I wouldn't eat it without anything else but imho it can be a good side dish, together with German Knödels, Salad and Beef.

Also there is a huge number of variations of it and therefore how it does taste. At least here, in Central Europe, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Poland and so on.

The best sauerkraut I ever ate, was in Alsace, a region of France which is famous for its sauerkraut.

Personally, I never had a reuben sandwich, I had to google it ;P

I suppose even coleslaw has its regional variations.

There is also the issue that some tastes are environmental in that if you come from a country where it is normal to eat things like horsemeat, dogmeat, bugs, etc. Then you wouldn't have that gagging reaction to it most other people do.

We eat with more senses than just our taste buds.

Love it and it is very healthy.

Saurkraut if officially awesome, especially with onions and spicy mustard on some type of pork product. Mmm...pork...

This.

A person is not predisposed to like certain foods being that they wont know about that certain food until they have it, making it impossible. I just think that certain preferences to type of taste can be predisposed as well as influenced during development. Just as adaptations arise though many generations, and certain "taste" can be considered an adaptation...to an extent...

This just being my slightly if any, educated guess on the matter. no need to feel offended now, as that wasn't intended, its just difficult for me to express my p.o.v without "body language" or facial expressions

savy?

not a problem (and not offended)

Oh mann, I just bought Saurkraut and rib meat for to entertain a friend for lunch, I always spill it onto hot mashed potatoes, yum, yum..then brownies with choclate icing afterwards. Memory does not serve me well to the very first bite of saurkraut, could have something to do with mom cooking and dad telling me of all the starving kids he saw in Korea when I would not eat my food, here here...so I always ate all my food. That being said.. starving kids was to vast of a concept to accept when I was a youth than eating the food before me, now I understand it all to well.

Sherri

Yummm, especially with mash and sausage

Nothing like a Nathan's Coney Island hot dog with some spicy brown mustard and surkraut...Mmmmm

I saw how this crap is made last night on an episode of the Food Network's show Unwrapped.