"Sauerkraut doesn't grab the glory like cheese and beer"

Well, I can't argue with that. I betcha didn't know that

"Great Lakes Kraut expects to produce more than 150,000 tons of sauerkraut this fall at three plants. That's more sauerkraut than all the manufacturers in Germany will produce"

either, did you? Four thousand pounds of cabbage bite the dust every minute at peak kraut periods in Bear Creek, Wisconsin.

Karen Herzog has the report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Don't miss the recipes.