Why is Chanukah food so unhealthy?

Hi, this is David Alowski with a little thought about Kaneka coming up. Somebody wrote me and they said, "How come we eat so many unhealthy foods on Kaneka?" It's true. If you live in America, you eat lotkas, which is basically potato fried in oil. Uh if you live in, you eat sufaniot, which they call jelly donuts. I know for a fact that's not true. I lived in America. I know what a jelly donut looks like. So, ganiote are old kala rolls that are fried with enough oil so that if you put a wick in it, you could recreate the kanuka miracle with a little jelly in it. And it is incredibly unhealthy. Parenthetically, I had a uh nutritionist once that said to me, if you have to eat a kanaka food, go for the latkas. It's healthier than the sugani oat. So, I pass on that little tidbit for you. Say, why do we eat all these unhealthy foods? So I said, "Well, they're foods cooked in oil." Well, then why do we eat foods cooked in oil if they're unhealthy? He says, "Because you know the Greeks worship their bodies. They had these beautiful physiques. We want to show we're not like the Greeks. We're going to be fat Jews [laughter] with diabetes." That's not the real reason. The real reason is because Kaneka is all about oil. Oil is a fascinating liquid because it's the only liquid that doubles as a fuel. You can eat it or you can light it and it becomes the source of light. And the miracle took place with the oil. Why? Because oil is very special because oil doesn't mix. I remember seeing this in the joy of cooking um maybe 40 years ago, maybe more. The [snorts] correct way to make a salad, tear the greens, do not cut them. Tear them into little pieces and then add the oil and coat it. And then mix up all the other salad ingredients in a cruit, shake it up, and pour it on top. Because if you add the oil to the cuit, it will separate because oil doesn't mix. And that's why every now and then you'll look at like commercial salad dressings and you'll see a um ingredient there called zanthium gum. Well, I don't know what it is, but somehow it's supposed to make the oil stick together with everything else. But oil separates because the story of Kaneka was the Greeks were trying to spread Hellenism all around the world and we said just leave us alone. That's all we asked. Leave us alone. And the Greeks said no. We're going to make you be like us. And we fought them for the right to be left alone, to be a people alone. Today it's very easy because everybody hates us. I mean, everybody always hated us, but at least they made a pretense because Asov comes at us with his army of 400 men and when he sees that won't destroy us, he hugs us and kisses us, which is even more destructive. And on the Kaneka story, we said just leave us alone. And so today, everyone hates us. It's much easier. Nobody wants nobody wants us. They don't want us in their in their international competitions and their international organizations. No one wants anything to be with us. So it gives us an opportunity on Khan for us to be the to be like the oil that floats to the top of every other liquid. So let's join together in becoming special. this everyone should have a yeah a light the Rambam says there's no mitzvah of so you don't say you should have a happy you know it's a should be a light should be filled with light okay till next time this is Denver Alaska.