Reply To: What would you say? – Hilchos Brochos

So why didn’t you tell the person, I am sorry but I am not finished eating yet so either please wait until I am finished, find someone else or say it yourself?

That would definitely be the appropriate reaction. You could also do your friend a favour and forget about the rice! I only thought about it afterwards; I didn’t eat the rice. In Halachah. however, it’s not good enough to just say ‘okay, I’ll just be machmir’. לימוד התורה obligates you to verify the truth of Halachah. The Netziv (Ha’amek Davar – I think at the end of קדושים) on the Posuk והבדלת בין הטמא לטהור writes that there is an obligation to clarify sfeikos rather than just “be machmir”.