<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">RZS:</font><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">In fact I'll go further: I don't believe that there has ever been a <br class="">posek of any stature who forbade potatoes as kitniyos, nor any community <br class="">that ever accepted such a practice. I have seen many sources claiming <br class="">that someone else, somewhere else forbade it, or that some other <br class="">community far away treats it as kitinyos, but never any first hand <br class="">acccount. When the Rosh writes that in Provence they said Tal Umatar <br class="">from Marcheshvan 7th I believe it, because he was there and saw it with <br class="">his own eyes. But I have never seen anyone report having seen with his <br class="">own eyes a community that forbids potatoes, or a psak din to that <br class="">effect. It's always someone else somewhere else. Until I see a first <br class="">hand account I don't believe it.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div>This doesn’t quite fit RZS’s request, but I heard a story from a friend who gave a <div class="">shiur making essentially RZS’s claim. An elderly gentleman from Morocco told</div><div class="">him that in his (childhood) town no one ate potatoes on Pesah because they puff up when they</div><div class="">cook. Admittedly my story is third hand, and is not related to gezeiras kitniyos,</div><div class="">but it is evidence that a community in Morocco forbade potatoes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David Riceman</div></body></html>