The Latke Wars, as some dubbed the debate, weren’t the first Jewish food fights to unfold on the battlefield of Twitter and they are unlikely to be the last. In fact, Jewish food wars on social media are a near constant, cropping up every few months when someone offers a risky take on the merits of chocolate hummus or a variation of kugel.
But is the face-off really about sour cream and applesauce, or is there more on the line than condiment preferences?
Are latkes better with applesauce or sour cream? Answer is both and if you disagree you’re wrong
We spent 2020 fighting about food on Twitter. Why? December 31, 2020 10:35 am Some say social media arguments about Jewish food are really proxy wars for deeper tensions in Jewish life. (Illustration by Grace Yagel)
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(JTA) Even after the candles burned out on the last night of Hanukkah, when the dreidels were put away and the gelt long since eaten, Jews were still debating the appropriate toppings for their latkes.
There was team applesauce and team sour cream, equally staunch in their arguments that theirs were the most authentic of the toppings. Some argued that the two should coexist on the same potato pancake but agreed that ketchup was off limits.
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