AW: [Cz-L] Re:Was, Kwas, Nass!

Hi Ruth,

you are right: "Kapusta mit Kvas" is just an expression.

The Russian "квашеная капуста" ( kvashenaya kapusta ) means just "Sauerkaut".
The beverage Kvas, was not used with Kapusta, and is not sour at all.

Alex

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> Hi Mimi,
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> To my knowledge there is no dish called "Kapusta mit Kvas."=A0I
> would assum=
> e that=20
> it means SAUERKRAUT with brine. "KVAS" in Russian=A0means "to
> make=20
> sour-fermentation."=A0
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> We(poetic)=A0Czernowitzers liked rhyming; hence the answer to
> "Was?" was Ka=
> pusta=20
> mit Kvas.
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> Ruth
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