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- Date: Wednesday, 30 December 1992 12:11:16 MST
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
- Organization: Nobody but me -- really
- References: <cF4kwB4w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <1992Dec30.135747.6499@linus.mitre.org>
- Subject: Re: Latkes
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
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- In <1992Dec30.135747.6499@linus.mitre.org>, jclander@symphony.mitre.org (Julian C. Lander) wrote:
- #
- # In article <cF4kwB4w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, waldo@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Todd J. Dicker) writes:
- # |> Yuch! Does anyone else eat latkes with sour cream? I thought the only
- # |> way to eat them was with apple sauce.
- #
- # My family eats them with apple sauce, except for my stepfather, who prefers sour
- # cream. My mother describes him as being from New York (we're all from
- # Boston). He isn't, but then he isn't Jewish either.
- # But it may indicate that Jews from New York have been
- # known to serve sour cream with latkes. (They eat funny bagels, too: soft and
- # fat. I like thin, hard ones.)
- #
- # It may depend on what you're used to serving latkes with. We generally have
- # them with meat meals, and so do not serve sour cream. (This is, for my
- # mother, a cultural survival. She doesn't keep a kosher home, nor do I,
- # but dairy and meat together just taste wrong to us. On the other hand,
- # I can eat hard cheeses [like cheddar] with meat without any problem.)
-
- First night I was at an affair with latkes, applesauce, sour cream,
- and (get this!) salsa and guacamole. I had to try it...
-
- Now, how many of you are daring enough to try it? How many (Warren!)
- can find a halachic objection to mixing hard-core Ashkenazic latkes
- with trans-Sephardic goo?
-
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