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But if we moved back to the times closer to those of the trilogy's characters, we would see that you could have eaten bigos with sauerkraut -- but the kraut would be at best a side dish rather than an actual ingredient of the 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 Italyshort, 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
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| imię = Jan Stanisław