[NatureNS] phases of the moon

From: "Roland McCormick" <roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Hello Paul -
     You may not believe it happens, but we always made krout when I was a 
teen ager, and I have seen the pickle rise and fall consistently year after 
year the same way with the moon. What I see I have to believe and can only 
assume that you have never had any experience working in this medium.

Roland.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul S. Boyer" <psboyer@eastlink.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] phases of the moon


> This is folk-magic.  It is pretty neat folklore (the bit about the  pickle 
> rising as the moon waxes is a nice parallelism), but it is pure 
> superstition.  Ask yourself, how in the world the moon can effect the 
> chemistry of what is going on in your picked kraut.  There is the  vacuum 
> of space between your mixture and the moon!
>
> On Jun 7, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Roland McCormick wrote:
>
>> Another place where the moon enters in to the farming picture is in  the 
>> making of saur krout. The cabbage is cut up and placed in a  barrel, 
>> salted, and then pounded.  This should be done on the new  moon, and as 
>> the moon gets larger the pickle rises on the krout  until at the full 
>> moon the krout is swimming in pickle. After the  full moon it disappears, 
>> then rises again as the moon increases in  size. I presume that the 
>> process is the same as the reason the moon  influences the tides.
>>     What I never understood is why, after you had let the krout go 
>> through this process for a couple of months you could put the barrel 
>> outdoors and let the krout freeze, and the pickle would never rise 
>> again.
>>
>> Roland
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Alison Webster" 
>> <dwebster@glinx.com
>> >
>> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] phases of the moon
>>
> 

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