[Avodah] Pizza - is it Pashtida?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:05:07PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
:> Not everyone agrees that Pashtida is a special case, but they hold
:> that it has the same halachos as ordinary Pas Habaa B'Kisnin.
...
: I have vague recollections that the Aruch Hashulchan might pasken like
: this little-known Taz, against the more well-known Magen Avraham.

That was my suspicion as well, because it was news to me that others do
not just simply call pashtida simply a type of PHB, and I got that far
in AhS Yomi. See OC 168:46. Also, you posted on this subject and even
this se'if of AhS already, see
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol17/v17n005.shtml#19 and RnCL's
reply at http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol17/v17n018.shtml#16 both of
which were a tangent of a thread at
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=M#MEZONOS%20BREAD
(see also the next 2 entries in the index, some wrote "Mezonos", others,
"Mezonot").


: CAVEAT: This post concerns only the Pashtida aspects of pizza, not
: any of the many other points which have been raised over the years.

I think current norms simply didn't catch up with the fact that the basis
of the pesaq of saying mezonos on one slice was based on a reality that
since changed. Few people snack on pizza today compared to in the 50s
and 60s.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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