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Can too much sauerkraut give you a hangover?

I had a few Guinness yesterday, but never gives me a splitting headache like this! And I only had a couple, anyway.

So someone poisoned my or else I'm suffering from sauerkraut poisoning. I'm going to read Tav's entry about sauerkraut to see if there are any recorded instances of exploding craniums caused by improperly prepared sauerkraut.

It's Bavarian sauerkraut. I wonder if this could be a factor. Maybe Bavarians put headache stuff in the sauerkraut that's destined for export, as a sort of revenge for all the Lederhosen jokes.

Serves you all right for the Lederhosen jokes.

I can't find anything about sauerkraut poisoning, other than the danger of botulism from bad canning, but I doubt that would be your problem.

Although some historian was speculating that George III may have had lead poisoning from eating sauerkraut that leached lead from a container. Which is certainly a novel idea...

There are no problems from deep-fried foods, salted foods [like sauerkraut], chocolate cakes with an inch of frosting, or bacon.

But be careful. Tofu and arugula and bean sprouts can kill you!

I'd guess you could get some kind of food poisoning from Sauerkraut, but headaches wouldn't be on my list of symptoms.

Bavarian? I hope you were wearing lederhosen and a little hat with a shaving brush on it while you ate that.

I have fond memories of going to a Oktoberfest in my area, and enjoying potato salad, sausage, and sauerkraut. With pastry and coffee, of course. Good pastries can go a long way in helping people get on my good side.

German food is brilliant.

I'll tell you one thing, though: Guinness and sauerkraut make a very fartiferous combination!

Choucroute is a nice German comfort food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choucroute_garnie

I can well imagine getting a headache from sauerkraut. I can't put a finger on what it is about it - something in the smell reminds me of the sort of thing in cheese and eggs that can set off a migraine attack.

Hmmm, maybe...there is a kind of lactic acid, sulfite-y thing going on...

Here's the odd thing, though. Sauerkraut is lovely, but sauerkraut *juice* (why? Why does this exist?!) is Satan's armpit sweat in a carton.

How do you know?

Why does the juice exist? I don't know, but if sauerkraut gives you a headache, the juice is probably a pain in the a****

I don't think I had enough for it to be so. A sip is more than enough.

What I meant was, how would anyone know what the sweat from the 's armpit tastes like? Not that I think there's a high priority need to find out.