I attend a "Men's Prayer" meeting at our church every Friday morning when I'm in town. For the past year and a half or more the group has usually consisted of just three of us. Yesterday the three of us met and the other two guys asked how my time in Indianapolis had gone. Had I learned anything?
Eventually, I got around to talking about my foray into sauerkraut-making. After I finished describing how I had made my sauerkraut, one of the men--somewhere in his 70s--said, "That's exactly how my mother made sauerkraut!"
"Your mother made sauerkraut?"
"All the time!"
"My mother, too!" said the other guy--about 60 years old and a guy who grew up on the farm.
I thought: "How strange! Sauerkraut-making sounds as if it were relatively common knowledge not that long ago. But our generation grew up never knowing. And the next generation. And, now, a third generation. No knowledge. All I/we have ever known (until very recently) is the synthetically-produced/'dead' kind of food that lacks any of the beneficial microorganisms in it by the time we eat it."
Eventually, I got around to talking about my foray into sauerkraut-making. After I finished describing how I had made my sauerkraut, one of the men--somewhere in his 70s--said, "That's exactly how my mother made sauerkraut!"
"Your mother made sauerkraut?"
"All the time!"
"My mother, too!" said the other guy--about 60 years old and a guy who grew up on the farm.
I thought: "How strange! Sauerkraut-making sounds as if it were relatively common knowledge not that long ago. But our generation grew up never knowing. And the next generation. And, now, a third generation. No knowledge. All I/we have ever known (until very recently) is the synthetically-produced/'dead' kind of food that lacks any of the beneficial microorganisms in it by the time we eat it."
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