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February 13, 2012 9:55 am at 9:55 am #997360
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I think that there are two competing principles in this case: 1) What is the make-up of the item 2) How is it used.

1) The dough used for a soft hot pretzel is usually a bread dough. Furthermore, being soft, it has the texture and taste as bread.

OTOH

2) People generally do not consider a soft pretzel as a food that one makes a meal with (kovai’a seudah)

I cannot pasken for you, but I follow what I saw in the Kaf HaChaim, where he says that the bracha for a pretzel (and bagel – and he spells them in Hebrew) is Hamotsi.