Reply To: What would you say? – Hilchos Brochos

It has to be that way (according to this svara that the bracha of mezonos is still “chal” on the rice even after the al hamichya) Otherwise, anytime someone makes a Mezonos on a regular mezonos product and he has in mind that his bracha should cover any foods he will eat that have the bracha on Mezonos (as the Rema says that one should have in mind), then after he makes an al hamichya, if he wants to eat rice at some point later on, he wouldn’t make a new bracha, since his original bracha is still “chal” since the al himichya didn’t end it. That is ridiculous! I don’t think that anyone would say that.

I disagree. According to your rationale, the reason you cannot continue eating forever (as long as you haven’t made a ברכה אחרונה) is because the brocho is only chal when you eat it – so if you make a brocho on a large challah, and begin eating it, can you continue eating the challah without a new brocho tomorrow? Obviously not.

A brocho (according to almost everyone) is not chal on a food item, it is chal on an achila. This achila is with a bracha, so is muttar. Any form of hesech hada’as will stop the effect of the brocho, not because you were mesiach da’as from the brocho, but because the achila is now a different achila. It loses the tziruf.

I do wonder, however, what would be if you make a mezonos with two cakes in front of you; a chocolate cake and a marble cake (both mezonos, both al hamichya), with specific da’as to eat both, and make an al hamichya on the chocolate cake with specific intention to immediately continue eating the marble cake. Was this what you meant to say? It is very possibly the same shailah there.