[Avodah] Mezonos Becomes HaMotzi

[Marty Bluke via Avodah]

R' Akiva Miller wrote:
"But as I pointed out above, the halacha was already aware of people who try
to minimize their bread intake, and this "sif 2" appears very clearly in
the MB, the AhS, and many other acharonim. It's NOT a new situation where
we need imaginative and inventive gedolim to break totally new ground; much
of the work has already been done. We only need to apply the existing rules
to our situations."

The rules in the shulchan aruch distinguish between things that are part of
the meal and those that are not part of the meal, but meal seems to be
defined by bread. Therefore, I do think it is a new situation. The Aruch
Hashulchan writes an expression that there are a few rich people who don't
want to eat a lot of bread so we aren't going to change the halacha for
them. We see clearly that the majority of people still viewed bread as the
main part of the meal and it was only a few indiviudals who didn't want to
eat bread. Today it is just the opposite. Many people never eat bread
(except for a kzayis on Shabbos and Yom Tov) and bread is not king anymore.
I don't think you can easily apply rules made for a bread eating society
where bread was the main focus and meals were defined by bread, to a
non-bread eating society.

The Aruch Hashulchan writes that there are 2 distinct reasons why hamotzi
exempts other foods from a beracha:
1. The food is tafel to the bread
2. Hamotzi paturs any food that is coming to fill you up
He doesn't explain why this should be so he just states it as a fact, can
someone explain the sevara behind this? The Mishna Berura seems to argue on
this and therefore is mistapek what is the din if you eat the bread just to
patur the other food? The Aruch Hashulchan on the other hand has no safek
he says based on 2 that you are definitely patur.
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