Everything You Know About Latkes Is Wrong

[Yonnie3]

So what’s a latke?

It’s a shredded Andean tuber, fried like a buckwheat pancake, which was substituted for Italian cheeses, once eaten to honor a mistaken reading of obscure variants of an apocryphal text.

But it’s crispy, and delicious.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/the-great-latke-lie/420018/?utm_source=atlfb

[irisblue]

1. The things I know about latkes

1-my mom makes the best I have eaten.
2-butter,sour cream, applesauce are good
3-my brother will try to steal them from my plate if I'm not watching.

🙄

[Glassunion]

2. It is a very yummy lie.

A great yummy lie. A lie I will repeat often.

I just made 2 batches over this weekend. For oil I used olive, and duck fat...

[Yonnie3]

3. Yes!

"A yummy lie," well said, Glassunion!

I would never let an untruth stand in the way of eating tasty food.

[Warpy]

4. I don't care who invented it or why

I just know why it became a winter festival staple, because it's so damned good.

I never believed a word of that "holiday tradition" nonsense because i know potatoes were introduced in the late 1500s and didn't become all that popular for nearly 2 centuries, when the poor realized they'd grow on the worst land and feed them amply, while they'd failed to be the aphrodisiac the rich were always looking for.

[Major Nikon]

5. I don't care what anyone says, Andy Kaufman nailed it