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But if we moved back to the times closer to those of the trilogy's characters, we would see that maybe you could have eaten bigos with sauerkraut -- but the kraut was at best a side dish and not an actual ingredient of bigos! Let's take, for instance, an 17th-century epigram by Wacław Potocki about a Polish nobleman, who went empty-bellied to a banquet hosted by an Italian and returned home just as hungry. By the way, his misadventure is reminiscent of an old anecdote about a Pole who cut short his stay in Italy, because he was afraid that, if the had been treated to grass in the summer, then he would be fed hay in the winter.<ref><!--{{Cyt