Our instructor had us over for a cookout; he mixed the kraut with buttered noodles, a Pennsylvania Dutch dish, I think. Seems like it had celery seed or poppy seed. It was good, but the kraut was so mild, it tasted more like cabbage.
LOL! Maybe his wasn’t DIRTY enough, then :-)
Might have been caraway seeds.
My New Yorker husband LOVES noodles and sauerkraut but it grosses me out. Believe it or not, and I don’t know if this is a Northerner “thing”, but if I’m out he actually makes a meal out of canned baked beans and scrambled eggs mixed together! Double gross out!! ;o)