I never met Susannah, but the orange story made the rounds in Conservative Jewish circles, particularly the egalitarian ones, and it's a permanent part of our plate.
I don't remember where I first heard it. I must have been at Brandeis, because prior to that our seder plate was probably a fairly standard Ashkenazi half-agnostic, working off three different kinds of Haggadah and the abbreviated version my grandfather had written for me and my brother in 1993.
This year we also added a tomato in honor of a local religious leader who used to be a regular seder guest who helped get tomato growers to give their pickers fairer wages and went toe to toe with Taco Bell about the prices paid for tomatoes and the associated labor.
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I don't remember where I first heard it. I must have been at Brandeis, because prior to that our seder plate was probably a fairly standard Ashkenazi half-agnostic, working off three different kinds of Haggadah and the abbreviated version my grandfather had written for me and my brother in 1993.
This year we also added a tomato in honor of a local religious leader who used to be a regular seder guest who helped get tomato growers to give their pickers fairer wages and went toe to toe with Taco Bell about the prices paid for tomatoes and the associated labor.
I like that!