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Originally Posted by DougL
You're saying that both cross the lines from time to time, not just as often. Right?
If I'm a restaurant owner or someone hosting people for dinner, and I've read up on what is required to make someone with food issues comfortable, and then the person with the special requirement has seconds on "food that would make them sick", I wonder why I bothered. OK, we carefully cleaned one side of the kitchen. We used separate utensils. We carefully didn't mix any ingredients. Oh, you like the gluten full desert? That's fine, but it is basically saying that all the work that went beforehand was a waste of time.
Maybe it is just a Boulder thing, but it seems like 10%-20% of people who would show up somewhere have a "food allergy". It is described as being like a shellfish allergy -- straight to the hospital if not honored. My eyes tell me that for the vast majority, it is a preference. For the person who truly needs the special food handling to not be horribly sick, it seems a disservice. Just like for the person who truly needs the dog. At some point the rest of us think everyone is gaming the system.
Well neither celiac nor lactose-intolerance are allergies.
I had a roommate in college who had celiac. You knew it was legit because no one else even knew wtf gluten was at the time, but he was actively avoiding it (this was 2006).
He'd still come to mcdonald's with us and have a burger or something occasionally, he'd just accept the consequences of spending the rest of the night in the bathroom.
The vast, vast majority of gluten-avoiders are full of **** though. And studies have shown that gluten-intolerance does not exist outside of celiac disease. Yet there are millions of people claiming intolerance without being diagnosed with celiac.