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thepandalion · 29 days ago

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ok so like. I get what you mean? and I kinda agree but also in my brain the oil is the reason it's hanukkah food? like if I made latkes in the air frier they would be potato fritters and not Special Holiday Food (TM)

the reason I have this specification though is that I regularly have my mom make me holiday-specific foods outside their designated holidays (specifically. the like. forgot the word in English but yknow the thing you put in soup on passover. thats like made of the passover kosher flour. that. its my comfort food. but my mom makes it out of potato flour instead when passover flour isnt available so its got a Normal version and a Holiday version)

so it might just be a me thing and maybe Im not using the exact qords I want bc. Late. but to me without oil its not for the oil holiday. its just the potato fritters we have on friday nights to snack on until right before dinner the next night and that feels to me like its losing the point of holiday specific foods?

Had someone very seriously suggest to me that you could bake latkes to make them healthier and I was like. absolutely not. the oil is the point. the oil burned for eight days and eight nights and gave us light to see by. it is still possible, against all odds, to live in a time of miracles. the oil is the point.

#like would you eat a sufganiya on a random tuesday in march? no #and conversely on holiday dinner with the entire family that you've been cooking and cleaning for all week #you're not gonna have scrambled eggs or plain rice. you're gonna have food worthy of a celebration #my mom has like. specific fancy foods. that she refuses to make on non-holiday dinners #like we usually have a pot of white rice but when its holiday dinners my mom puts almonds and pomegranate seeds on top to make Sweet Rice #its comsidered a holiday-only thing #to the point where if I asked for it on a normal day shed make normal rice and give me a handful of almonds and pomegranate #and Id be expected to assemble while Im eating like its two separate dishes I have to make sure arent touching #but then again. jewish food culture is so diverse bc weve been so many places and influences by so many groups #so it makes sense our interpretations of holiday foods are also different depending on what your specific family does #also yeah we only have oil latkes on the first two nights bc after that its too much oil and we get sick #at which point we switch to brownies because the 2nd night also happens to be my birthday #and I usually want brownies on my birthday

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