At my wife’s insistence I bought and cooked some gluten free pasta. It ended up as 1/4 inch strands. Back to Prince for me.
I get so furious when I see “gluten free” on things like mixed nuts, or roast beef deli meat. OF COURSE it’s gluten free. Modern Americans are more superstitious than midieval peasants.
Food Warnings by Luddites
In 1968, the book, “Population Bomb”, said we’d all be dead by now because we’d all starve to death. Proof positives given in the book.
In 1979 Saccharin was said to give us all cancer. It was all a lie brought on by competing product manufacturers.
In 1974, eggs were attacked by cereal manufacturers that said eggs gave us heart disease. We know better now.
In 1974, sugar was being attacked as a fattening product. We now know it is good for us and more so than sugar substitutes.
Since 1869, Margarine manufacturers have tried to replace butter by making all kinds of claims that butter is unhealthy. We now know that margarine is evil and butter has good health qualities.
In the early 1990s we banned CFCs, the pressurized gases used in canned goods like hair spray. The Luddites told us that it made the ozone hole. They were wrong and the hole is still there. It is a naturally occurring atmospheric phenomenon. Ozone is created by all kinds of things and we ain’t about to run out.
Salt has been attacked for decades as bad for us. We now know that probably isn’t so true. In fact, many people have a deficiency in salt that causes all kinds of health problems like aching joints and muscles.
Gluten has been attacked and has become the food fad of recent years. People that don’t even know what gluten is will recall one web site after another claiming it is killing us all. However, we also know that isn’t true, and thousands of years the human race has consumed gluten products like wheat, and beer. Funny how people claiming to not eat gluten eat plenty of it in many foods they ignorantly do not know contain gluten.
High temperature foods are another latest food fad. Ridiculous things are said about heat such as, “Don’t eat pizza! It is baked at high temps that kill ALL nutritional value of the ingredients. Besides, pizza contains gluten.” Another favorite is, “Don’t eat Corn Flakes cereal! It is puffed at high temperatures that kill ALL nutritional value!”
Ian Marber is full of shiite.
My wife suffered painfully for years with Celiac. She would get yearly sinus infections that were debilitating. Gastro-intestinally she was in pain every day.
She worked out what was happening and has been 100% better since eliminating wheat products from her diet.
Where Mr. Marber gets it totally wrong is the yeast assumption. My wife makes wonderful breads with no wheat products but uses yeast in them. It has no ill effect on her. I cannot testify as to anyone else's reaction to yeast.
Quit screwing with my food!!!!!!
Eh, there need not be a fuss. I’ve got gluten intolerance, I don’t make a big deal about it, but I did learn to not go asking about a gluten-free beer in a pub in Australia! (”Why don’t you just have a propah pint?” was the response)
You just learn to adapt without whining. There are some pretty good gluten free alternatives to just about everything. Fortunately, for those times when you cannot do without a piece of crusty bread and a Guinness (there is no acceptable gluten free substitute for those) - I found a product - called “Gluten Cutter” which allows me to actually eat wheat-based foods on a limited basis.
My trip to the supermarket will be a time of laughter and me rolling in the aisles: “Cleanup on aisle six! Man on the floor laughing!” The gluten free craze will soon see such things as tomatoes with “gluten free” signs attached. I wonder when the next diet fad will be obsessed with “oxygen free” foods.
This health foods movement is targeting the Baby Boomers who are starting to feel their immortality. The marketers know the Boomers will pay any price to turn their life into the youthful life of their youth. These are food snake oil scammers who promise the fountain of youth to the vulnerable Boomers who will pay any price and buy into any non-science. The non-science is something not to laugh at.
Gluten allergy is WAY more common than 1 in 100. Probably more likely 1 in 20 have at least some type of allergic reaction to gluten.
I know someone who claims to be allergic to gluten, to have fibromyalgia, celiac disease, to be allergic to seafood, shellfish and to be able to eat nothing but pork, cookies, and candy. Oddly enough, she’s quite overweight.
At the grocery store today, I noticed all the new gluten free labels on everything under the sun including the meat and dairy. Wow, who knew meat wasn’t a grain?!? I once had to drive someone all over town so they could get the best fries because they couldn’t eat a burger due to their celiac disease. Of course, she ordered a burger with her fries. Along on that long ride was another airhead who orders pepperoni pizza but throws the pepperoni in the garbage because she’s vegetarian. And I wonder why the country is in the shape it is...
Thank god for the increased interest in gluten-free lifestyles. I am not a celiac but I am gluten intolerant ever since I had an adverse reaction to a gout medication. Being gluten free is much easier now days as almost every store carries some. The corn & brown rice pastas are just as good as the regular pastas.