Eight days. There are nine candles but there are eight days. So I guess you're part right there.

Latke are potato pancakes. The gambling is with a dreidel and felt, which is chocolate coins. At least with Kaplans it is. Oh, and jelly donuts too. A lot of the food is fried in oil, supposed to show how the oil lasted. There's lots of customs to it.

[He may have picked up more than he admits.]