[From many - one.]

Hey..I’ve got Italian background.

Maybe you had steak tomato cheese pie.
Not pizza. Capisce? ;-)

Just curious...is the gluten thing an allergy or personal taste?

[muawiyah]

It's not exactly an allergy. It was always there in my genes but it hadn't been triggered on a regular basis until abdominal surgery.

My T-cells treat gluten as if it is a serious poison to be expelled at all costs IMMEDIATELY.

About 1.33% of the US white population has the genes to be affected negatively by gluten. There's a similar hereditary "allergy" to birch, apples and pears. There aren't so many people involved so it's rarely recognized. I did some experimenting and found I don't have that one but I have a different one involving an allergy to apples, pears and peaches. A cousin has a variation of that where it's apples, pears, chocolate and peaches. Worked with a lady who was a Chipewa Indian. She had what is known as a "rotating" allergy to chocolate, coffee and tea ~ involves a protein usually found associated with caffeine producing plants. You can use one of the three until you get sick, then you switch to the other two. Goes on for a lifetime.

These "allergies" are protecting you from consuming cyanide laden plants and plant byproducts.