[Magdalen] Sauerkraut.

[Jay Weigel]

We get some really great stuff from our online grocery called Kale-Chi.
It's basically kimchi made with kale, and it is fabulous on hot dogs,
believe it or not.....better than sauerkraut. No mustard is needed...or
anything else either.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Jay Weigel
>
>  My friend Melanie is making kimchi. I keep telling her that kimchi is just
>> hot Korean sauerkraut.
>>
>
> Except it really stinks terribly when cooked. We has  Korean Methodist
> (not to
> be confused with UMC or any other Methodist you ever heard of
> <g>)Congregation
> using our church in Bay Ridge, and they'd sometimes be cooking this in
> preparation for the dinners they;d serve their members after their service.
>
> We had one particular supply priest who would preach for 45 minutes or
> more on
> all manner of things Episcopalians tend to dismiss  (dispensationalism for
> one,
> millennialism for another) and by the time Communion came, the Kimchi smell
> would be pervasive, and some of our members would get quite ill and not
> even try
> to approach.
>
> That Congregation left when we called a full time priest because their
> hopes to
> "buy" the property at a fire sale price when we "went out of business" were
> dashed by new life in the place.
>
> The Koreans were also the people who decorated the front doors with
> Christmas
> Lights and a Santa, Reindeer and Sleigh one year, until an emergency
> meeting of
> the vestry ordered it removed (done by our Sexton).
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>