Does two flavors of the same thing count for mishloach manos

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amother

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 3:20 pm

For instance, two different kinds of seasoned olives

Or two kinds of cookies (eg regular chocolate chip and cocoa with white chocolate chips)

amother

Yarrow

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 3:21 pm

Yes! I remember my halacha teacher in high school teaching this, and a girl gave him one black jelly bean and one white jelly bean. He loved it!

amother

Diamond

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 3:22 pm

I asked if 2 flavor cookies is 2 things. I was told that it is. I do homemade cookies in different flavors every year.

amother

Dimgray

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:35 pm

Doesn't it have to be two things with different brachot? Like, one mezonot and one shehakol or ha-adama?
That's how we always do it, but I don't know if that's minhag, halacha or just a family thing.

amother

Lightcyan

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:37 pm

amother Dimgray wrote:

Doesn't it have to be two things with different brachot? Like, one mezonot and one shehakol or ha-adama?
That's how we always do it, but I don't know if that's minhag, halacha or just a family thing.

It's a standard misunderstanding and many of us were taught this way.

Look inside the seforim and you'll see that there is no basis for that.

amother

Daylily

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:38 pm

I don’t think that CC cookies and chocolate cookies with white chips necessarily have different flavors. They are distinct but I am not sure if that would be OK. You can definitely ask your LOR.
Chocolate chip and raspberry thumbprint (or peanut butter) would definitely work.

chicco

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:39 pm

You can even take a roast, cut it in half and that is kosher MM.

goodmorning

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:45 pm

chicco wrote:

You can even take a roast, cut it in half and that is kosher MM.

Two pieces of the same roast would not be considered two minim. (There is an opinion that two manos, two portions, is sufficient, even if they are the same min, but if you are trying to satisfy the "classical" psak that two different types of foods are required, two halves of the same roast would not qualify.)

However, two different types of meat would work (e.g. dark and light chicken, a steak and a tongue, etc.).

zoom

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:48 pm

Wow!
Really?

I heard that has to be 2 completely different foods.

Reality

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:52 pm

zoom wrote:

Wow!
Really?

I heard that has to be 2 completely different foods.

Nope. You can give a red apple and a green apple and be yotzei.

zoom

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 5:09 pm

Why are we all taught 2 separate brochos?

Gosh I will ask my kids what they have learnt..

Imabubby60

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 5:16 pm

I learned that it should be 2 different Brachot, so it's interesting hearing other drachim.

chicco

Wed, Feb 22 2023, 5:21 pm

goodmorning wrote:

There definitely is an opinion that says 1 piece of meat cut in half works.

"The basic requirement is to send two portions, but what exactly constitutes “two portions”? The Shulchan Aruch states “two portions of meat.” Based on this, some understand that even one large piece of meat that can be divided into two reasonable portions would suffice, and indeed Eshel Avraham (Buchacher, last comment in OC) entertains this possibility."

This, and other related halachos can be found here:
https://outorah.org/p/33324/

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