Sauerkraut apples and white wine are added in popular variations. Traditionally it is served warm, with pork (e.g. "eisbein", "schweinshaxe", "Kassler") or sausages (smoked or fried sausages, "Frankfurter Würstchen", Vienna sausages, black pudding), accompanied typically by roasted or steamed potatoes or dumplings ("knödel" or "schupfnudel"). Similar recipes are common in other Central European cuisines. The Czech national dish "vepřo knedlo zelo" consists of roast pork with "knedliky" and sauerkraut. In France, sauerkraut is the main ingredient of the Alsatian meal "choucroute garnie" (French for "dressed sauerkraut"), sauerkraut with sausages (Strasbourg sausages, smoked Morteau or Montbéliard sausages), charcuterie (bacon, ham, etc.), and
Affair of the Sausages the subject of a 2016 cantata "Geist und Wurst" by Edward Rushton. Affair of the Sausages The Affair of the Sausages (1522) was the event that sparked the Reformation in Zürich. Huldrych Zwingli, pastor of Grossmünster in Zurich, Switzerland, spearheaded the event by publicly speaking in favor of eating sausage during the Lenten fast. Zwingli defended this action in a sermon called "Von Erkiesen und Freiheit der Speisen" (Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods), in which he argued, from the basis of Martin Luther's doctrine of "sola scriptura", that "Christians are free to fast or not to fast because