mik5 -“Is it true that the bracha on “mezonos rolls” is really hamotzi?
So can you make Kiddush on them?”
Ya’ know 20 years ago all the Farfrumta guys I know started with there is no such thing as “Mezonos rolls”. I, of course, being the naive guy that I am – of course believed them. In actuality there is a big Machlokes Haposkim regarding this. The reason that people call them “Mezonos rolls” is because the Rav Hamachshir on the bakery holds they are Mezonos.
So there are two reasons you can use these rolls for a Seudah:
1. You hold that they are really Hamotzay like some Poskim.
2. You hold like others that they are Mezonos, but the S’A Paskens you can make a Hamotzay on Mezonos if you are Koveah Seudah.
And of all places, in Willi, they only sell “Mezonos rolls” in restaurants, not really only but mostly. And they put meat on them like burgers & dogs. So their Rav Hamachshir obviously holds they are still Mezonos and eating them with meat doesn’t automatically make them Hamotzay, not like other Poskim. And this isn’t a mistake from the restaurant owner, because they all say the same thing -so they got this from their Rabbonim. I heard this for many years there in different restaurants.