Word: sauerkraut
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Seeping out of the cafeteria, permeating the peaceful scene, was the strong, vital scent of freshly cooked sauerkraut...
...hungry soldiers enjoyed the 25 barrels of sauerkraut they requisitioned at Chambersburg and the cherries that were ripening everywhere. They marched 15 to 20 miles a day without straggling, whooping and yelling as they went. The horses, well fed at last, carried their heads higher and pulled with a firmer step. There was "acid in the air" and mean looks from the townspeople, but the jaunty invaders laughed them off. At York, General "Extra Billy" Smith changed the bands' tune from Dixie to Yankee Doodle, and even won smiles and cheers from the citizens when he made them...
...show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that he had accepted...
Sing Something Simple. The tune of Lili Marleen has the simplicity, tinged with poignancy, which has characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...produce a product that yields almost double the number of cups per pound. ("The freezing," says Engineer Donnelly, "functions as an anesthetic to avoid damage to the tissues, fats and cells during the squeeze.") He reports reductions in volume (over and above dehydration reductions) of 90% for sauerkraut, 80% for cabbage, 75% for potatoes, 65% for onions, beets and carrots, 50% for egg powder, prepared desserts, dehydrated soups. Beef for stews in one-inch chunks squeezes down 70%, hamburger bulk is reduced 55%. Puffed rice, voluminous as a pound of feathers, can be compressed 86%. Puffed rice, combined with powdered...