Food cooked in oil, especially latkas (potato pancakes) and doughnuts. This symbolises the miracle which the festival celebrates when in the Temple which had been ransacked by the Greeks there was only enough oil to light a lamp for one day but miraculously the lamp burned for eight days.
There's no such thing as Hanukkah people. Hanukkah is a holiday that is celebrated by Jewish people. During Hanukkah, we customarily eat latkes (potato pancakes) or jelly donuts.
There is no Jewish tradition of eating tamales on Hanukkah.
Jews do not eat a pig at any time of the year, so they do not eat a pig on Hanukkah either.
Yes. Hanukkah does not add any food rules.
some of the things they do on Hanukkah are eat the traditional foods and say the blessings and light the candles.
People commonly eat gelt, or chocolate coins. People also commonly eat jelly-filled doughnuts.
Hanukkah lasts for 8 days, but it has no special meals associated with it. It is traditional to eat potato pancakes (latkes) and jelly donuts (sufganiot), but there's no actual "Hanukkah meal."
Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah. (They are not called "Hanukkah people")
Yes. Hanukkah is not a fasting holiday.
There is no such thing as "Hanukkah people". Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday celebrated by Jewish people. The holiday of hanukkah doesn't add any food restrictions, other than what Jews already follow. Parmesan dip and chips are okay, but if it's a kosher household, the food must be kosher.
Hanukkah is a Jewish celebration:http://judaism.answers.com/jewish-holidays/hanukkah
Yes.