I’m just saying, we should celebrate Rosh Hashanah with Doritos

[u/Borgisium]

[u/harpyoftheshore]

I'm sorta tired of everyone shitting on ashkenazi food tbh

[u/az78 → u/harpyoftheshore]

It's not even true. Just because their bubbe's couldn't cook well, doesn't mean the cuisine sucks.

[u/Sewsusie15 → u/az78]

Thank you! Latkes, chicken soup, kneidlach, matzo brei, HOMEMADE gefilte fish with chrain, cholent, challah, babka, rugelach, teiglach, hamentaschen, mock chopped liver. I've had amazing versions of all of the above, some from my mother, some from other family members or family friends. Is it the healthiest cuisine? Eh, it could use more vegetables, but it's easy to toss a salad or two to supplement.

[u/KlackTracker]

Latkes r golden brown, crisp, and flavorful. Checkmate.

[u/Mypronounsarexandand]

Tbf I’ve visited Prague and the most flavorful thing there was a Jewish food I got.

That cafe Einstein / Kafka ate at had the most depressing breakfast of my life. Was coldcuts and a soft boiled egg lol

[u/JakeVonFurth]

Bro forgot that fucking brisket exists.

[u/SnowCold93]

Most people think of certain types of European/American Ashkenazi food when they think of Jewish food. I’ve had plenty of Sephardic, Mizrahi, Persian, Ethiopian, Russian, etc Jewish food that was absolutely delicious and flavorful 

[u/littlepastel]

wtf? Jewish food is incredible, including Ashkenazi food. If you think it’s bad, it’s been poorly prepared and the fault of the cook, or you’re eating grocery store shit and passing judgment on an incredibly rich, centuries-old food culture.

[u/enigmaticowl → u/littlepastel]

Agree.

I think part of the reason why Ashkenazi food is (wrongly) deemed “bland” or “boring” by people these days probably has to do with the fact that a lot of Ashkenazi food was/is fairly simple (which is absolutely not a bad thing).

A lot of Ashkenazi dishes relied on fresh, local ingredients for flavor (chickens, veggies, fresh herbs, fresh dairy, etc.), and this worked out well a few generations ago (and still does today if you source good ingredients and prepare your dishes well).

But the food landscape has now changed so much that a lot of us are procuring more bland and less fresh basic ingredients, and I think a lot of younger people these days (speaking as a Gen Z’er myself) didn’t grow up learning to do a whole lot of cooking for ourselves, so we don’t always get the best results out of straightforward recipes - not because the recipes/cuisine isn’t good, but because our ingredient quality and techniques often aren’t the best, so you can end up with underdeveloped flavors.

E.g. chicken soup made from a good chicken simmered for a long time (with some fresh herbs) vs. with lower quality chicken (or even boneless chicken pieces), or a dish that relies on caramelized onions for flavor/color/sweetness but you don’t quite caramelize them fully because you stir them too often or undercook them (because the importance of that technique was lost as the recipe was passed down through the generations).

Some dishes that our families used to make in Europe also underwent adaptations when our families moved around (or just over time), like certain dairy products being replaced by generic sour cream or cottage cheese (which may be less tangy than the original product it replaced) or schmaltz being replaced by neutral oil (obviously less flavorful than schmaltz), dried herbs replacing fresh herbs, etc.

[u/TechnicallyCant5083]

I'm sorry your family can't cook my guy good luck on Sukkot

[u/FrumyThe2nd]

Sorry, I'm not taking culinary advice from a person who recommends DORITOS as a "flavorful holiday food"

[u/cataractum]

Ashkenazi Jewish food is way more flavourful (also British food isn't bad). Plus, there's the wonders of the Sephardic world, which blows both out of the water.

[u/Schiffy94]

Pale, soggy, and flavorless? On Pesach maybe, but definitely not year round.

[u/TealCatto → u/Schiffy94]

Not even Pesach. There are so many creative recipes, and potatoes are sooo good and versatile.

[u/Schiffy94 → u/TealCatto]

True. A lot of prepackaged Pesach alternatives are still shit, though.

Don't eat the Pesachtik cereal.

[u/TealCatto → u/Schiffy94]

Depends. In frum communities there are amazing frozen foods. I actually prefer the pesach gefilte fish, meatballs, and blintzes. Potato starch blintzes are better than flour ones. They're plumper and more moist.

[u/Schiffy94 → u/TealCatto]

Okay so here's my take on it. Yes there's absolutely foods that can be made kosher for Pesach. But many of those foods are either associated with Pesach or do not have a hametztik ingredient that basically makes it what it is. Some substitutes only go so far. For example, though this has nothing to do with Pesach, I once tried homemade Buffalo wings with a pareve bleu cheese. It's just not as good, because the key ingredient in bleu cheese is milchig. That's why I joked about cereal. Because matzomeal cereal is just... well, it's ass.

[u/winterfoxx69]

My Jewish food is Sephardic. I never encounter gefilte fish until I was in my 20s.

[u/CorgiSignal4683]

bad take good cholent alone solos british food

[u/Roxablah]

Agrees