[Avodah] Soup

[Arie Folger]

RDR wrote:
> I don't know of any experimental evidence, and I certainly don't think
> that people can eat more when they start the meal with fruit; in fact,
> since one of the cues the body uses to indicate satiety is the volume of
> food contained in the stomach, I would expect that fresh fruit make you
> eat less.

On the contrary, fruits will definitely stimulate the appetite. See
"Sugar triggers our reward-system. Sweets release opiates which
stimulates the appetite ..." at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15962882 , for example.

By the way, one answer to your natata devarekha leshiúrin is that we
perhaps follow rov people of today, but that means standards can
change from generation to generation. Ask the cook, heĺl tell you what
is 'iqar and what is tafeil.

You also mentioned how you recognize that we eat differently nowadays.
So, tell me, how is a main dish of meat and potatoes and gravy ba
lelafeit et hapat? Should the main dish - according to your definition
- not also require a set of berakhot? Or perhaps this is evidence that
we do use a different definition, perhaps closer to RAM's?

-- 
Arie Folger,
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