TrayfBerries?

[vvalkyri]

So I had already noticed that the list of kitniyot seemed to be getting longer over time; a friend told me the other day that at least the MO rabbis in New England kept expanding the list of "home cooks can't possibly inspect this well enough to find any bugs- you can only eat these things packaged and frozen, with hexure." I had been familiar

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[smofbabe]

Hadn't heard this one but some quick net research reveals a supposed problem with strawberries and blackberries, and here are instructions for checking strawberries, with a photo of the bug.

Not sure how widespread this injunction is, but here's what I would consider a sane view on the issue.

[richardf8]

I think the men are just working toward a general issur on fruits and vegetables that don't go into Cholent so that they can tell the women in their lives that it's a sin to eat your veggies.

[mick_hale]

That's odd, they were kosher for my grandfather and great-grandfather. I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't be kosher today.

Oh, that "bugs are getting into them easier"? Does that mean you validate micro-evolution? Or is this just another cognitive dissonance of extremist rabbis that are trying to control the lives of their worshippers followers? Or worse yet, another way to claim hegemony over what's kosher and what's not by denying something that comes straight from the ground and therefore automatically kosher to something that needs to be processed and therefore hechshered?

The berry issue is old news to me. My ongoing disgust with power-hungry rabbis is too. It was good enough for my grandfather. It should be good enough for me.