“You’re not allowed to eat without saying a brachah. If you don’t know the correct brachah, find out, otherwise eat something else or don’t eat.”
Who/what was this in response to?
“However, she should have called a rav, or at least some type of Bais Horaah (or perhaps look it up on a reliable website). I don’t know if any if those options were available to her, though.”
I was assuming that those options weren’t available or she would have done so. (or at the very least – they were available, but for some reason, she didn’t think of it or was uncomfortable).
In any case, for whatever reason, she apparently felt like like her only options were either: a) not making a bracha, or b) making a guess as to which bracha to say.
Since, (for whatever reason) she felt as though those were her only 2 options, she did the correct thing by choosing a) even though it would have been very tempting to choose b), and some might have done so, so I felt it deserved commendation.
I wasn’t getting into what she should do in the future, since I thought it was important to first praise her for acting correctly in this case, based on her current knowledge.
And btw, I would be a bit hesitant about the website idea. And hasn’t that already been discussed?