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audere47

My Worldly 4-Year Old...

Jan 07, 2009 09:54

So I was discussing the day's activities with the girls, and suggesting that we could have "potato pancakes" for dinner (yeah, I'm gonna try my hand at latke-making... I have a LOT of potatoes to use). So Jordan starts in with her 4-year old logic ( Read more... )

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redfishie January 7 2009, 17:05:19 UTC

I grew up eating Latkes - I'm not jewish, but polish. A lot of slavic foods are seen as jewish, when they really are from one region.

It is one of those things that drives me and a few other poles I know nuts - now gefilte fish, and knishes always strike me as jewish.

superlib January 7 2009, 18:04:33 UTC

Lots of "traditionally" jewish foods are arabic, too.

The jews are awesome at making other cultures' foods seem like they belong to them.

Knishes are actually a german food, IIRC.
Bagels... dunno, but I doubt it was the jews.
And lets not even mention Chinese food, the jewish mainstay for sunday dinner!

redfishie January 7 2009, 19:12:47 UTC

you know what? Now that you mention the knishes, I knew that.

The latke thing drives me vaguelly nuts as lately there seems to be a push to drive it as THE symbol of passover -- as if no one ever eats them outside it and I've had jewish friends act in shock and disbelief when I mention my mom making them for me as a kid.

redfishie January 7 2009, 19:15:33 UTC

I admit I'm mildly sensitive about it - and apologize if this comes off at all ranty.

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harpergreen January 7 2009, 17:22:34 UTC

So, does that mean all Hanukkah foods are dessert foods? :p

audere47 January 7 2009, 20:21:06 UTC

Good question... latkes could be either, really, especially depending on what you eat them with. Sour cream and green onion? More dinner-y. Applesauce? Leans more toward dessert, in my mind. I'll eat them plain, or with anything else, I love them (just haven't ever actually made them myself before). They are pure sin, though. ;-)

I don't know why she associated Chanukah foods with dessert foods, or if she was making two different assertions there. I certainly wouldn't eat Gelt for dinner, though, or - ahem - jelly doughnuts...

Yay for PC TV! Did I mention she was also spinning her little hippo weeble toy and calling it a dreidel (which she pronounced more like "DRAY-doh")? Again came Chris with the "Jordan, we're Catholic..." though I must confess I liked playing dreidel as a kid. Collected a fair number of pennies.