I saw that slogan on the CFON can and smirked.
We got a world where maybe one out of every one hundred thousand people are allergic to nuts and the whole world has to watch out for them.
So of course CFON has to reassure the low information voters that there are, indeed, NO nuts in their coffee. Idiots, the whole lot of them.
Now I got a lady coming to my book club thing next week and she can’t eat gluten.
I don’t know nothing about gluten but I know it’s the latest and greatest way for boring people to get attention, that’s how I see it.
I have no idea what to serve her but all I can do is ask her what the hell she can eat.
She tells me that even though something says no gluten it doesn’t mean it’s free of it so even something hyped as having NO gluten might, indeed, have gluten.
Well gag me with a spoon.\
Anybody got any suggestions/experience with this sort of thing?
Tell her to bring her own snacks if she can’t tell you what she CAN eat.
Yeah, gluten (glue)...found in abundance in refined wheat flour.
It's "a protein composite found in foods processed from wheat, barley and rye. Gluten gives elasticity to dough, helping it rise and keep its shape and often gives the final product a chewy texture."
Most processed foods contain a lot of it. That and tons of sugar are probably a large reason why Americans are so...well, large.
I’d tell her politely she’s SOL. Happy New Year to all.
Put out a bowl of nuts.
Gluten intolerance is quite real and rather painful. Ask her to bring her own snack as you know nothing about gluten. Not that I am insulting you, it’s not as uncommon as it used to be, and you would both be more comfortable.
She should not expect you to conform to her dietary issue, it’s her issue.
End of story.