Over Pickles and Twix

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"Alright, so once you have everything here, you're going to want to get your hands to it," Harry says, pointing around at the various bowls and jars. "Don't be scared, just wash your hands and mix that kraut as much your heart desires. Get in it really good, squeeze it a little." He starts taking off his rings, one by one putting them in an empty clear bowl. The rose ring is the last one to go. "Alright," Harry says once he's washed his hands. "Now what you want to do is mix and squeeze and all that good stuff. Back in the day, people used to just put it all in the big wooden tubs or whatever, and walk all over it. But we're in the middle of Manhattan in the 21st century, I'm not gonna just take my shoes off here and do my sauerkraut the old way." The cabbage makes a rather interesting sound under Harry's hands. "God, Jeffrey, get your little camera here. Get that noise there. See how the juice is coming out like crazy? It's the salt reacting and the mashing, squeezing, whatever you wanna call it."

It takes some time until the sauerkraut is put into its containers, ready to go ahead and start the fermentation process. Harry washes his hands and starts putting on his rings again. Jeff asks something off-camera.

"Oh, this little thing?" Harry muses, turning the rose ring over between his fingers before he slips the ring onto his right index finger. "It's, uh, it's a long story, I'd say. It was a gift, technically. But not really, you know? It always reminds me of Roses Are Falling, that Orville Peck song. God, remember when we had him over here? Probably the best episode of it's alive we've done so far. But yeah, it's really a long story, Jeffrey, nothing you would want to edit for the episode." Harry claps his hands once. "Anyway, some of you will be asking what to use your kraut for. Be creative! It's so good with sausage, so good with red meat. Also chicken thighs, oh yes, roast them in the oven over some kraut with potatoes, oh Jeffrey, it's a gem. A real diamond in the rough or whatever they say. So simple, so easy and so good."

Jeff is already thinking about a cheesy animation involving falling rose petals.