[Avodah] The Halachic Adventures of the Potato

[David Riceman via Avodah]

> RZS:


> In fact I'll go further: I don't believe that there has ever been a 
> posek of any stature who forbade potatoes as kitniyos, nor any community 
> that ever accepted such a practice.  I have seen many sources claiming 
> that someone else, somewhere else forbade it, or that some other 
> community far away treats it as kitinyos, but never any first hand 
> acccount.   When the Rosh writes that in Provence they said Tal Umatar 
> from Marcheshvan 7th I believe it, because he was there and saw it with 
> his own eyes. But I have never seen anyone report having seen with his 
> own eyes a community that forbids potatoes, or a psak din to that 
> effect.  It's always someone else somewhere else. Until I see a first 
> hand account I don't believe it.
> 
This doesn’t quite fit RZS’s request, but I heard a story from a friend who gave a 
shiur making essentially RZS’s claim.  An elderly gentleman from Morocco told
him that in his (childhood) town no one ate potatoes on Pesah because they puff up when they
cook.  Admittedly my story is third hand, and is not related to gezeiras kitniyos,
but it is evidence that a community in Morocco forbade potatoes.

David Riceman
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