[Avodah] popcorn

[David Riceman]

Eli Turkel wrote:
> <<Cooked* kitniyos.  Where do you see anything about not eating raw ones?>>
>
> Quoting R. Shimon Eider " One cannot eat legumes on Pesach"
>   
I think this is a source of a lot of confusion.  "Kitniyos" and 
"legumes" are not synonyms (neither rice nor corn, for example, is a 
legume).
> Asking arounf no one has heard of a minhag of ashkenazim eating raw kitniyot.
>   
That's the question.  Are sweet peas or edible pea pods or green beans 
kitniyos? Or does something have to be grown as a field crop rather than 
vegetable and harvested in large quantities in order to be preserved to 
be construed as kitniyos? Certainly fresh vegetables would not normally 
get mixed up with the wheat crop; only dried seeds would.
> One of the reasons given for the minhag of kitniyot is that the fields of grains
> and kitniyot were near each other and so frequently the seeds of each
> got mixed up.
> That would apply equally to raw kitniyot as to flour.
>   
David Riceman