Reply To: What would you say? – Hilchos Brochos

Sam2 – Interesting sevara. I thought along those lines too, although I wonder if it’s true.

1) Do you have any basis to say that Al Hamichya ends a beracha rishonah? I would say that they are two independant chiyuvim.

2) Why do you say that the bracha is only chal on the food when you begin eating? (My father said something very similar, but agreed that it is not muchach.) Although the eating is the mechayav, are you sure that the brocho hasn’t taken effect until you actually begin eating?