This week, we’re ringing in the Festival of Lights with a special episode filled with Unorthodox holiday cheer, Adam Sandler’s updated “Hanukkah Song,” and a whole lot of latkes.
We’re joined by Jewish competitive eater Don Moses Lerman, who holds the Major League Eating record for baked beans (six pounds in one minute and 48 seconds) and butter (seven quarter-pound sticks of salted butter in five minutes), and who once ate 150 jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes. He comes out of retirement to see how many Russ & Daughters potato latkes he can eat in five minutes on the air. (Spoiler alert: a lot.) Tablet’s Elissa Goldstein, an avowed latke skeptic, politely watches Lerman’s feat and then tells us what she really thinks about Hanukkah’s ubiquitous potato treats.