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Horseradish
While few of the traditional seder foods trace their origins as far back
as matzoh, it should be noted that the lowly horseradish root also crossed
the Red Sea with the fleeing Israelites.

As impoverished slaves, they had access to few vegetables and the hard and
woody horseradish was a household staple.

While most of the fleeing Israelites carried with them horseradish, there
is a story told of one family where, while gathering up their few
belongings, discovered that they had no horseradish left in their house.
The wife sent her husband into the field to dig up a large horseradish
root, but in the darkness and confusion, he unearthed a large ginger root
by mistake.

The story continues that after forty years of wandering in the desert, the
Israelites finally entered the promised land. But it was another year
before the family with the ginger arrived to settle among the rest of the
Israelites.

When asked where they had been, the matriach of the family, now grown old,
shrugged and answered, "My husband insisted on taking an alternate root."