[Avodah] soup

[David Riceman]

RAM:
Then I suggested that soup is an appetizer, and RDR responded:
>> But why is soup different from fruit?
> Excellent point. I suggest that soup is NOT different from fruit. When eaten as a dessert, let both get a bracha. When eaten as an appetizer, let both be covered by hamotzi.
What makes you think fruit eaten as an appetizer shouldn't get a bracha? 
See Hayei Adam 43:2.
>  Actually, as I look at the list of foods which they tell us are or 
> are not part of the meal, I see another glaring omission: Cake.
See AhS 177:10 which says that anything of which flour is a primary 
ingredient is mahmas haseudah.

<< If so, then we are free to look at our own practices, and judge soup 
accordingly. >>

What bothers me is that you are proposing that we scrap an entire 
halachic category.

David Riceman