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Oh my gosh, I know! Like I'm REALLY gluten intolerant and it makes me feel tired and lethargic if I have any. People don't take you seriously when you ask restaurants to make sure their entrees are gluten free. I once had to send back a salad because I found a crouton at the bottom and it took them forever to fix it so I was stuck eating the free bread while everyone else had their lunch. :(

Free gluten-free bread?

yeah, that threw me off too. I can't think of any place that would give away baskets of gluten free bread, though maybe OP lives somewhere where that's not crazy

sa

wait nvm, I just got that they're joking. like, they're being a parody of those people who aren't actually insensitive to gluten and won't eat certain foods that contain gluten, but will eat other foods that obviously contain gluten because they're too dumb to realize that it has gluten (I've typed "gluten" so much that it doesn't even look like a word anymore)

Yeah the valley girl speak gave me that impression.

...Where was the valley girl speak?

Is it just me who hears "oh my gosh, I know!" combined with starting sentences with "like" in that tone then?

Edited 2015-02-09 04:52 (UTC)

DA - Maybe just you. It sounded a bit ditzy, yeah. But not what I think of as "Valley Girl" speech.

Um. ...Yeah. Just you.

....you can't eat a crouton but you can eat the free bread?

The restaurant's free bread is gluten-free, but their croutons aren't? Or you sent a salad back because it touched a wheat crouton but then gave up and ate the wheat bread anyways? If you found the crouton at the bottom, doesn't that mean you'd basically finished the salad already?

What is happening????

i think it might have been a joke

either that or someone really stupid

ayrt

Okay, yeah, on a second read it does look like a joke. Slightly embarrassed that I didn't catch that...

ayrt
Yeah, it seems obvious in retrospect, but I didn't catch it at first either. It's probably because I've met a lot of people who have jumped on the gluten free bandwagon who sound exactly like that (I also know someone who legitimately has celiac disease, and I feel kind of sorry for them that a bunch of loud and obnoxious people have made actual sufferers look bad)

sa

Sorry, I meant nayrt. opps

Yeah, I have a couple friends with gluten intolerance who have TERRIBLE THINGS happen if they DO have gluten. As far as dietary restrictions go, I would never want theirs; it's an expensive, difficult one.

(Which is why I'm kinda astounded folks would do it for non medical reasons. Rice and potato flour cost out the nose!)

--Rogan

I have some celiac friends, and Passover time is heaven for them. There are TONS AND TONS of replacements of everyday foods that have gluten, but they're made 100% without it - chocolates, wafers, cereals, bread, everything. And potato flour isn't that expensive that time of year either.
Most of them stock up for the entire year :)

I was going to ask where the heck you lived that had such a great selection of Passover products... and then the username registered (I'm used to your lemon-thing icon) and I remembered it's Israel! I felt silly there for a sec. :)

Anyway, the supermarket Passover selection in my suburban US neighborhood has shrunk significantly over the last 10-15 years, despite the Jewish population here staying just as large, if not larger. *sigh*

Haha, yeah, I recently changed it. tbh I didn't think I commented enough that it would throw people off XD but either way I wanted something new.
(it was actually an esrog, that previous one)

That sucks, though :( I'm sorry they're not stocking up on Pesach stuff anymore. I wonder why it's happening. Is it worthwhile trying to have the community arrange an import for Pesach or something? Because seriously, there's more stuff here every year. I mean, pasta! /Decent/ pasta! There's everything, I tell you.

Oh man, that is a BRILLIANT idea. I had never even thought of that; I don't know very much about Passover and such. I'd stock up too if I were them!

--Rogan

:) the basics of Passover are that you're not allowed to eat any leavened grains, so anything that would have any kind of grain+water is a no-no. So lots of replacements show up, using potato flour/corn/whatever, and they're incredibly strict about making sure that there's no wheat anywhere nearby.

Man, celiac heaven!

I actually might be moving in with a couple folks who keep kosher and have Passover and such. I plan to pick their brains about kosher meat in the area, because I approve of the slaughtering methods and want to get in on that. (I can't be vegetarian, or I get sick, but I'm still under the belief that if I can't stand the idea of how that meat got on my plate, I shouldn't blithely go eating it.)

--Rogan

Oh wow, good luck with that! A word from me to you - be *super* careful about their dishes, because if you mix stuff up it can actually be a bit problem for them. Kudos for taking the time to learn about it, though :)
I'm actually glad to hear you say it, because one of the antisemitic claims often used is that the Kosher method is barbaric - which it actually *isn't*, it kills the animals extremely quickly. And ensuring the meat remains kosher does demand a bit better treatment of the animals, because blemishes render the meat unkosher.
I'm actually 99% vegetarian - I don't have any meat at home. Once every few months I'll go out with friends for meat, but that's it.

It's good that if you can't be vegetarian you're doing your best to be careful about your meat :)

Oh yes, that part I know! And it actually works well for me, because I have a tiny stock of my own dishes that I like to use, and I prefer to wash my dishes by hand because... well, there aren't enough of them for an electric washer to be efficient. I might even make sure I have my own little set of silverware, just so I don't actually contaminate one of theirs by mistake.

(It's kind of nice that for once, my ED weirdness is USEFUL to someone, rather than just being weird and uncomfortable.)

What? I mean, most antisemitic bull I see is incredibly stupid, but still, that's so... STUPID. Are most people AWARE of how a lot of animals are slaughtered? In my country, at least, it's pretty horrendous! It's how I became AWARE of kosher meat, because I had a lot of Jewish friends who were like, "hey, if that bothers you..." and otherwise, it's actually REALLY hard to find out how your meat was slaughtered here.

--Rogan

Wait, I just realized! If you live in Israel, you can tell me what the climate's like there as an insider! What's the weather and such like?

(I uh. Might be writing a fantasy series where the Roman Empire never came to be, the Second Temple never fell, and thus there was no following diaspora. I enjoy writing it and people like reading it, but I am highly unlikely to ever make it to any of the locations mentioned in it.)

--Rogan

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