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What do you use for karpas?

Carrots

[ 1 ]

Radish

21%

[ 20 ]

potato

46%

[ 43 ]

celery

[ 4 ]

onion

[ 8 ]

parsley

[ 5 ]

more than one

10%

[ 10 ]

other

[ 1 ]

Total Votes : 92

Rubber Duck

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:01 pm

Potatoes!

↑ lkwdgirl

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:07 pm

amother Kiwi wrote:

Voted radish, because you only gave 2 options.
But we have potatoes, radishes and celery

I thought I put 4 options. Carrots radishes potatoes celery. Oh well

↑ singleagain ↓

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:09 pm

lkwdgirl wrote:

I thought I put 4 options. Carrots radishes potatoes celery. Oh well

Would you like me to edit the poll? I can do that as a mod. Should I maybe also add a poll for other?

amother

Snapdragon

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:20 pm

Never heard of carrots or radishes. And I’ve been going to Pesach programs since I was born so I’ve seen plenty of different minhagim.
We’ve used potatoes and sometimes celery.

amother

Silver

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:37 pm

Never heard of using carrot or radish. Grew up with parsley. Been using potato since I got married (as potato or onion is Chabad minhag).

funkyfrummom

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:47 pm

We use onion... but I also have celery and/or parsley available because of our guests. We have each man build his own kaarah.

Never heard of using carrot.

amother

Purple

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 10:52 pm

My teacher in seminary taught us a mnemonic for KaRPaS:

(K)arrot
(R)adish
(P)otato/(P)arsley
(S)elery

I never heard of onion till Imamother

a2z

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 2:23 am

singleagain wrote:

Would you like me to edit the poll? I can do that as a mod. Should I maybe also add a poll for other?

Please do

Simple1

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 2:42 am

Celery. My picky eater eats potato.

amother

Denim

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 2:56 am

I grew up with radish, my DH with potato and parsley. I prepare a bit of both and everyone picks what they want.

amother

Candycane

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 3:07 am

I grew up with potato. DH's mom grew up with tomato and his father uses potato. DH learned that it should be something green so he likes parsley but will take celery or even a green pepper in a pinch. We try to have a bit of everything on the seder plate, especially if we're having guests.

amother

Daylily

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 4:06 am

My husband's family eats celery.

In my fathers and his patents house we technically ate onion, but also had potato for my grandmother who grew up w potato and did not want to eat onion. Guess what most of us ate!
My other grandparents ate parsley.

I never heard of carrot until now.

amother

Moccasin

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 4:08 am

Grew up with potato and celery (and onion on the keara)
DH does potato and cucumber

Hashem_Yaazor

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 4:51 am

Celery. Both growing up and after married.

essie14 ↓

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 6:29 am

potato, radish, kohlrabi, parsley

coffee icecream

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 7:07 am

Wow never heard of most of these options.. carrots cucumbers radish..
We've always done onion or potato
Knew that parsley was done in theory as that was always on the pictures.
Simply just curious, isn't karpas to remind us of the tears/ bitter times mitzrayim? How does carrot/ cucumber remind us?

ETA that would be in reference to the saltwater
Regarding the vegetable, it seems to be any can be used in theory

See here:
The Name Karpas
The Talmud does not specify which vegetable should be dipped, and in fact any vegetable may be used, other than those that may be used for the maror. However, many have the custom to use a certain vegetable by the name of karpas,since the word karpas (כרפס), when reversed, can be read as ס' פרך. The letter samach has the numerical value of 60, and perach means “hard labor,” so the word karpas alludes to the sixty myriads of Jews (600,000) who were enslaved with hard labor.8
But which vegetable is identified as karpas? Some say it is a leafy green like parsley or celery. Yet, many have the custom to use root vegetables such as potatoes, radishes and onions. The Chabad custom is to use onions or potatoes.

↑ singleagain ↓

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 7:15 am

coffee icecream wrote:

The saltwater reminds us of the tears/ bitter times

The vegetable to dip into it can be any vegetable that is with the bracha of hadama with one exception you are not allowed to use marror.

If however, marror Is the only vegetable you have then you do the bracha of marror at the karpas portion of the seder.

This is one reason why I like banana and sometimes strawberry.

Well banana was the minhag of Rav of my community. The Rav who founded my community. I forget if it was either to prove that the banana was hadama or if it was to make the children ask questions.

Plus there's something that I just really enjoy about the banana in the salt water which I know kind of defeats the purpose because it's like actually really sweet but it's one of my favorite minhagim, So much so that the year I was married and had pesach with my ex's family I asked my FIL to make sure to buy a banana for me.

ETA..I was posting before you added your ETA. I didn't like erase the bottom of your post and rewrite it

amother

Hotpink ↓

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 7:38 am

amother Fern wrote:

Same. I didn't realize carrots and radishes are most common?

They're not...
Most people use pototo or celelry

watergirl

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 7:57 am

We use potato now, but both my husband and I are BTs, I grew up conservative and he was reform, and both of our families used parsley because it represented the greenery of spring (and the egg represented spring and new growth, so on and so forth).

bsy

Wed, Apr 03 2024, 8:52 am

Celery. But my father doesn't really eat celery (bec of bugs) so he takes a cherry tomato or cucumber

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