You have deviated from the path of win. Welcome to fail.
I have encountered a shanda*. A horrible horrible shanda.
The university cafeteria was doing a ~multicultural~ lunch today with various holiday style foods. The previous night I asked if there were going to be latkes. Of course, they would be having vegetable latkes!
...
Latkes are potato pancakes, for those not in the know. If they are not vegetable something has gone horribly horribly wrong. I shrugged the message it off and go about my business under the assumption that this was yet another example of Ignorant But Well-Intentioned Christian People like nearly everything Hannukah-related around here. We're like Christmas' black best friend, they like us but haven't actually bothered to know much about us.
I went in to lunch today, eagerly expecting pre-festive noms. The lamb and couscous in what I'm guessing was supposed to be the Kwanzaa section was pretty good. There were some form of squodgy brownish flat things on the other side of the buffet so I wandered over to see how well they'd done the latkes.
They were zucchini latkes.
ZUCCHINI. LATKES.
A latke is a clump of potatoes mixed with egg and fried in oil. If you put in some onions there's maybe four ingredients with applesauce and sour cream as side materials. It's not exactly easy to fuck up and nothing in there is a considerably rare or expensive resource. In fact it's probably far easier to get potatoes than zucchini.
WHY WOULD YOU MAKE LATKES OUT OF ZUCCHINI. YOU FAIL JEWISH FOREVER. GOOD DAY.
*Yiddish term approximating to shame, tragedy, or offense
The university cafeteria was doing a ~multicultural~ lunch today with various holiday style foods. The previous night I asked if there were going to be latkes. Of course, they would be having vegetable latkes!
...
Latkes are potato pancakes, for those not in the know. If they are not vegetable something has gone horribly horribly wrong. I shrugged the message it off and go about my business under the assumption that this was yet another example of Ignorant But Well-Intentioned Christian People like nearly everything Hannukah-related around here. We're like Christmas' black best friend, they like us but haven't actually bothered to know much about us.
I went in to lunch today, eagerly expecting pre-festive noms. The lamb and couscous in what I'm guessing was supposed to be the Kwanzaa section was pretty good. There were some form of squodgy brownish flat things on the other side of the buffet so I wandered over to see how well they'd done the latkes.
They were zucchini latkes.
ZUCCHINI. LATKES.
A latke is a clump of potatoes mixed with egg and fried in oil. If you put in some onions there's maybe four ingredients with applesauce and sour cream as side materials. It's not exactly easy to fuck up and nothing in there is a considerably rare or expensive resource. In fact it's probably far easier to get potatoes than zucchini.
WHY WOULD YOU MAKE LATKES OUT OF ZUCCHINI. YOU FAIL JEWISH FOREVER. GOOD DAY.
*Yiddish term approximating to shame, tragedy, or offense