Translation for Arnie: Kartoffel - potato, Puffer - bumper, buffer or cushion. That makes latke a potatobumper, a potatobuffer or a potatocushion.
Guten Appetit.

Really? I suppose then if you get tired of eating them, you could always sit on them or use them to reupholster your sofa?

brigitte, although i appreciate your attempt at correlating a latke with a kartofelpuffer to advance the cause of cultural diversity, please give up.
If it looks like a latke, smells like a latke, tastes(!!) like a latke, why then, it most certainly is a LATKE!

Now... how would you like it if we changed the character's name to Kartoffelpuffer Gravis??? (Taxi anybody?)

clearly you misunderstand the difference between a puffy pillow to sit on while eating Latkes, and a potato pancake...

I hope this straightens everything out.

now pass the sour cream please.

The other nite I happened to be flipping channels and came across a Rabbi on Angel One. He was really good. He was explaining about Hannukah & how it was there long before Christmas & how it being around Christmas was just a coincidence. He explained that Jesus celebrated Hannukah. I noticed on the wall behind him was an old autoharp or zither which was neat. He did a good job of explaining it & I learned some stuff I didn't know...

I just went looking up his website & it said on there he used to be a hippie. Pretty cool. I also found an article on Hannukah on there too:

http://www.crosstalk.org/articles/hanu.shtml