I found out that parts of northern Germany also have this as their traditional family dish. Now...whenever I make mashed potatoes, I add the kraut.
I thought some of you Freepers might enjoy this dish and the funny site that the post is derived from.
Stamppot?
One of my co-workers with a German background recommended trying something like stamppot, with the kraut in the potatoes accompanying pork.
As for deep-frying the life out of food, I thought THAT was purely Midwestern. Maybe we are more Dutch than we realize, way back.
Great post! I read a lot of the comments on the source site, (about 50%), and decided I must have some Hollander in me (I know there's a lot of Deutsch) because here is what I invented for myself years ago, not knowing of Dutch/Deutsch stuff before:
20-minute hot potato salad for a bachelor
Ingredients:
Potato flakes
water
butter
salt
milk
bag of shredded country lettuce salad
sweet onion
(olive) oil vinegar
honey
Directions:
(1) Make "mashed" potatos with 1 to 1 1/2 cups of flakes, according to instructions on the flakes box.
(2) Throw a couple handfuls of crisp bag salad onto potatoes.
(3) Cut off some diced chips from the onion into the pot also.
(4) Pour on about 2 tablespoons each of oil, vinegar, and honey from the bottles.
(5) Stir everything together.
(6) Eat soon before lettuce, etc. stop being crispy in the hot potatoes.
(6) Say "Mmmmmmm!"
Is that sort of like "stamppot" or what?
(Crumbled crispy bacon shreds in the above is nice, but extra.) (Saves time on boiling potatoes, and eat quick; from the pot when alone. Washup is quick, too - just the measuring cup, the pot, the knife, & the fork. Also, I found out if you want them, that steaming cut-up peeled potatoes takes no longer than boiling, and they mash OK and taste better than boiled.)