Applesauce on latkes is better than sour cream: Prove me wrong.

After conducting a poll of my family members I have been confronted by the fact that when it comes to the enjoyment of latke eating I am in a mixed marriage. I prefer applesauce while my husband clocks in for sour cream.

The children break down as follows…
2 for applesauce
1 for sour cream
2 for ketchup

Ketchup!! **hangs head and slinks out of room in mortified shame**

Latkes don’t need anything on top- they are yummy just the way they are.
How’s that for a compromise to your debate LB?

Mariana,
I’m not much into ketchup dipping and never paid much attention to it, so I was taken aback when a non-Jewish colleague told me years ago that it was a Jewish thing.
Lo & behold, she was right. I started noticing my kids and other guests requesting ketchup , and watched as they used it on EVERYTHING… My wife was like : Don’t you even know what goes on in our house ?? … That started a ketchup fight… I won, ’cause I squirted a no-brand brand at her, and she used Heinz… you know, slowest ketchup in the West.

this is not something one can prove or disprove…on taste and smell their is no debate. Put both apple sauce and sour cream on the table in my house with the latkes and the apple sauce will go untouched while the sour cream will be finished. Why do I use sour cream…..that’s the way my mother and grandmother served it, never with applesauce.

litvish dint have sugar so their foods like gefilta fish was gezaltzen un gefeferd so salt and pepper on smetina – sourcream was their latkes
galitzianer polish etc had sugar their gefilta fish was zeese sweet so was their latkes

I know the following is going to sound very alien but I could never get into the applesauce thing and I dislike sour cream in general. I eat latkes with ketchup, mayonaise, hot sauce, or BBQ sauce.

@Lightbrite
Remember, potatoes were introduced to Europe after exploration and colonization of the ‘New World’ in the 1500s. Prior to that they would have been made from other ingredients.

Mrs. CTL makes cottage cheese latkes, but they are served breakfast time….with applesauce

Joseph,

What’s a meme?

Personally I like Greek Yougurt on my Latkes

Is there anything better than that?

MUSTARD,you little rascal, you. How’d I forget about you ?
That’s also what my bas melech and her conspirators feasted in at every snack… It gets worse.. There’s this mustard/mayo squeeze product they used.

There are two kinds of latkes, made from raw potatoes or cooked potatoes. The cooked potatoes are called chremzal that my mother made.

meme
/mēm/Submit
noun
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.

Avram: Something viral. Kinda.

Laskern and ZionGate: Fried raw potatoes are latkes, fried cooked potatoes are kremzlach. Or at least according to my Hungarian-Czechoslovakian heritage.
RebYidd, you must have missed my vote above.

Winnie,
My parents told us that they never heard of, or used the word latkes till they arrived here, at least that’s my recollection.. My mom, also of Czech-Hung. used chremzlach for all types, and dad called the cooked ones kayzlach, which mom never heard of.
I guess it depended from which area they lived in.

Are you serious Laskern, you never heard of a latke until recently joining the CR?
What did your wife A”H make?

WinnieThePooh, Here means America not CR . I am 59 years in America. I was 11 yerars old when I came here from Austria where I was more than 2 years while waiting to come here.

CTLAWYER, Kartoffel pfann kuchen – I will translate, a potato pan cake.

CTLAWYER, I took german in college, so I traslated for others. btw I was taught a story by Bertolt Brecht called die Kreidekreis, the chalk crcle. Similar to King Solomon’s splitting of a baby, two women were claiming to be the mother of an older girl. The judge ruled to draw a circle with a chalk on the floor placing the girl in the circle. The women would hold her hand on either side figuring that the real mother will pull her out of the circle. The real mother instead, being afraid that the girl will be pulled apart, let go. The judge said, this is the real mother.

CTLAWYER, as a linguist, explain to me the word understand which according to my understanding should be overstand because when you verstehen something you are stading over it.

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Yes, eating dairy foods on Chanukah is a much more authentic tradition than eating potato anything. It’s in memory of the miracle of Judith and Holofernes, which somehow got associated in the popular imagination with Chanukah

@Milhouse

Latke sandwiches? Not with latkes as the filling, but in place of the bread. Tonight we served both pastrami and corned beef sandwiches with the meat between thin potato latkes. A side of both cole slaw and applesauce was on the plate and sour pickles

It’s very easy to prove you wrong. Put applesauce on a latke and eat just the oil that comes out of the latke and gets mixed with the applesauce, and do the same with sour cream. You’ll see trhat the sourcream latkes maintain the latke taste better than applesauce. Obviously, applesauce is more of a cover up than sour cream.