We bought sufganiyot for Chanukah. My mother opposed sufganiyot. She considered these things extremely unhealthy, for reasons unknown to me Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte was in her eyes healthy, perhaps even more than just healthy.
Also, we attended a children's service. The children were asked to talk about the good things they had done during Chanukah. Most of them talked about donating money, but a boy answered: "I adopted an elephant."