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tevilah:

Taking the great latke debate to the next level.

NO

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If it doesn’t have a potato base, it’s not a latke.

I’m withholding judgment.

What you’ve got there is a ramen fritter. Fritters are acceptable for Hanukkah, but can you call them latkes? The rabbanim are still in session over the decision.

AHEM. @jewish-burrito, @anyroads:

“Latkes need not necessarily be made from potatoes. Prior to the introduction of the potato to the Old World, latkes were, and in some places still are, made from a variety of other vegetables, cheeses, legumes, or starches, depending on the available local ingredients and foods of the various places where Jews lived.”

My people, we have had potatoes for less than a quarter of the time we have been celebrating this holiday, latkes most likely predate our access to potatoes for at least a century or so and probably much longer, it does not have to be made of potato to be a latke.

I’m willing to allow any sort of vegetable, but noodles seem a step too far.

Latkes were originally made from cheese, and later rye, chestnut or buckwheat flour. Potatoes didn’t reach the Ashkenazi world until the late 1830s (though they quickly became a staple food). 

Here’s how to make some pre-potato latkes!

(Every year my Latin American boyfriend asks me to make latkes and then tells me to say thank you to South America for the potato. And I oblige because, well, he’s right.)

Thanks I hate it

This fucked me right up