This is the first I ever heard of the great Chicago latke-hamantashen debate (link), but a friend of mine back in the 50s did introduce me to the war of the noodleites and the farfelites:
If you eat noodle soup, you get not only what is in the spoon, but all that hangs over the edge of the spoon as well!
Ah, but if you eat farfel soup, you get whatever is in the spoon. If you eat noodle soup, there is always a risk that the noodles will slip out of the spoon, and then what do you got, soup?
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The war between the farfelites and the Noodelites can be traced back to a book written in the ealry 1950s by a then-popular and now-long-dead comedian named Sam Levenson. The book was called "Meet the Folks."
Levenson was a high school teacher whose classes were extremely popular because he was a funny man, although he didn't look it. He was sort of nebbishy – short, dumpy, with rimless eyeglasses. Nevertheless, he was briefly a nationally-known entertainer, appearing, I believe, on the Ed Sullivan TV show, among others.
Put that in your Wikipedia and smoke it!
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