stackyFACTSCabbage is the ultimate survivor vegetable. While other crops withered at the first frost, cabbage thrived in the cold and could be easily fermented into sauerkraut. It was the only thing keeping miserable, snowed-in peasants from starving, earning its place as the undisputed hero of depressing root cellars.
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