Cabbage.

Known for being shredded.

Famous for being fermented.

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why cabbage is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive

is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm

joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of

cabbage? Cabbage. Cabbage. Cabbage. Cabbage.

I'll mess with a good cabbage.

I'm not going to sit there, eating a whole head of cabbage raw on my stoop, but I'll mess with it in recipes.

I'll have it incorporated into cooked meals. I think raw, not so much a fan.

In a nice spring roll, in a stew, you know, it's really good. I'm more the reverse. I think it's mainly because I'm not that end of pickled flavors So unfortunately, I'm an awful germ, but I don't like sauerkraut. And I'm not that into kimchi.

But like raw, especially crunchy red cabbage and some kind of salad, that's pretty good.

kimchi I actually like and sauerkraut. I don't. And it's weird because I do think they're very similar, but there's a subtle difference.

Maybe it's because kimchi often has sort of a spiciness to it that kind of like covers up some of the

pickledy flavors. Yeah, there's that prep difference. Yeah. Yeah. Different ingredients. But yeah,

cabbage. Not against it. I think I also found my favorite cabbage thing when the pandemic started because the first show we laid down and watched was Avatar the Last Airbender, where they had the amazing joke where a guy is a cabbage salesman and always gets flattened or obliterated by the actions of the characters.

Yeah, the magical children's hijinks as they control the earth, water, wind, and sky.

They should have made the fifth element cabbage, and he turns out to be heroic.

Because in Legend of Cora, there's a huge public statue of him,

and I think the implication is that as time has

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