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I feel like part of the problem is, in a modern, urban environment, we don't know what we're looking for, so we look for everything.

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Apr 10, 2023Liked by Boruch Clinton

One of the main types of produce that is infested is lettuce. It doesn't seem they used to eat lettuce during their meals (hence the historical need for karpas to patur the marror... which by the way is why my husband says to eat a kzayis of karpas, make a borei nefashos, and since lettuce these days is an integral part of meals - as per my teenage daughters - it doesn't need to be patured, and this then solves other issues involved with paturing maror). So workers were probably not munching on lettuce, leafy veggies, and artichokes anyways. ('man est gruz du in america').... And flour and grain is not so tasty either. Nice juicy dates (easy to check when holding up to light), grapes (which didn't used to have bugs eons ago in my childhood), pomegranates, were probably good workers' choices, and buggless.

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