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I cannot agree with this article more
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11894335
People's invented allergies are a complete pain in the arse and they need to educate themselves and stop making their own issues someone elses. If you don't want to eat the food as described on the menu then don't go in there, try and find somewhere that will pander to your demands or be a miserable git and stay at home.
Chefs are more than happy to provide vegetarian or vegan options within their style, many are even happy to mark their menus with whether a dish contains certain 'problem' ingredients. You aren't paying enough for them to be your personal chef though and tailor everything to your fussiness.I have just had my sister in law and niece staying with us and both have convinced themselves that most food is poison. It is complete bullshit though. 'I can't eat gluten but I can eat sourdough bread', 'I won't eat meat but I do eat a bit of chicken' somehow also means they don't even care if the chicken is factory farmed because they won't pay for free range /good quality.
Don't even start me on how embarrassing it is to go out with them. The poor restaurants just get endless questions about everything and then they order next nothing with everything disassembled so they can pick through it and just want free water. We end up trying to compensate at the end with a tip to cover the fact that the place just lost two seats to someone unwilling to actually buy anything and I usually slip aside to apologise to the kitchen. -
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
Should peanuts be banned on planes? Mid-air emergency sparks debate
A mother-of-two backs a call to ban peanuts on planes from the parents of a young boy who suffered a dangerous allergic reaction onboard a Singapore Airlines flight, saying she had a similar experience with the airline.
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@antipodean I was feeling some sympathy and could kind of understand the issue, until I read this bit:
"I had two upset children because they were looking at their mummy who was a bit of a mess, and she knew the reason and just opened another packet [of peanuts] and started eating."
Baaaahahahaha
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
Should peanuts be banned on planes? Mid-air emergency sparks debate
A mother-of-two backs a call to ban peanuts on planes from the parents of a young boy who suffered a dangerous allergic reaction onboard a Singapore Airlines flight, saying she had a similar experience with the airline.
"spoke out after travelling home from a holiday in Thailand with their son Marcus, 3, who suffers from anaphylaxis."
Anaphylaxis is not a disease. The kid has an allergy that triggers an anaphylaxic response from his body.
Everyone in his path is meant to now change their own choices because of that? Sorry, but if you want to go out in public you take the risk. Don't want the risk? Stay at home.
My wife will go into anaphylatic shock from a bee sting. Doesn't stop her taking calculated risks outside (she gardens, tramps, picnics etc) just doesn't do things like walking barefoot through flowering clover."They had asked for a nut-free meal for Marcus, but they had not expected other passengers to be served peanuts as a snack."
Peanuts ARE a snack! The vast majority of people think so and will request them. Dumb shits.
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@Crucial Following this I'm going to start taking peanuts everywhere, including flights because fuck you if you're allergic to them. Pandering to this has made the issue worse.
Should peanuts be banned on planes? Mid-air emergency sparks debate
A mother-of-two backs a call to ban peanuts on planes from the parents of a young boy who suffered a dangerous allergic reaction onboard a Singapore Airlines flight, saying she had a similar experience with the airline.
What surprised me about this is that I thought they stopped serving peanuts on flights 30 years ago. For exactly the reason stated. Part of me wonders whether this is a "fake news" story based on an historic happening reported as something that happened recently picked up without proper checking. Happens regularly.
I digress slightly ... back in the day (25 years ago ) I was working for an upholsterer from the footy club who did a job for a bloke who worked for Continental Airlines. Bloke gave the boss these BIIIIGGG bags of individual serves of peanuts as they didn't serve them in flight anymore. Kept me in beer nibblies for months!
I've always been cynical about the greater prevalence of allergies in recent times. I've always wondered if helicopter mums over worrying about "what ifs" and avoiding nuts create an issue by avoiding substances that cause potential allergies meaning that kids bodies don't get used to them. But that is my own personal woo and not based on any science.
Now, having said all that, one of Ms boo jr's friends was (well still is but they moved away) severely allergic to nuts. Carried an epipen everywhere and had to be be really really careful about what she ate. So too her mum. So have sympathy for those with genuine allergies.
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@booboo This issue has arisen as a direct result of a generation who think they know better how to raise humans than the grand total of human history. The easiest, and now preferred way, to limit allergies is early exposure.
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@booboo This issue has arisen as a direct result of a generation who think they know better how to raise humans than the grand total of human history. The easiest, and now preferred way, to limit allergies is early exposure.
I am one of four. We were all raised the same, eating the same shit. One of my sisters, the poor girl, is allergic to fucking everything, and especially nuts. Usually very careful when she goes out to eat, not annoyingly so, but gets the right info. But bad info can have dire consequences. Like her husband getting the Eden Park officials coming to his seat during a world cup game to go let him no his wife is really fucking sick at the aid station. Apparently the restaurant they went to prior may not have given entirely accurate info.
My uncle is the same with gluten, and has been for ever. He's really good about it when he goes out. But it's much easier now thanks to the "lifestyle allergies". But i feel sorry for him when he asks for absolutely no gluten, and you just know the waiter thinks he's just another piston wristed gibbon.
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I had a mate in the army who was allergic to nuts. His parents grew almonds. Commercially. A fuck off big farm full of them. I said to him one day; just wander into the live fire trace, I'll tell everyone you went for a piss...
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A uni mate was super allergic to eggs. He had a mild reaction when using a pot that another flatmate had boiled eggs in. Now it'd only had a 'student flat' wash, but all of us were tripping out about the level of sensitivity.
During teacher training there was one (quite odd) little dude in my class with severe allergies. There were several epipens around the school and we got clear instructions on how to use them. There were a few other kids with known allergies but he was the only one where it could be life/death.
We are introducing food to our bubs (7 months) one at a time. Then starting to give her blends of stuff she's already tried. That's the suggested approach from our Plunket nurse. Seems to be working ok so far. Is it wrong that I sent a pic of bubs gnawing on a steak to my vegan sister?? ha ha
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My mate died of anaphylactic shock , as he lay there choking he kept trying to give me his epipen , he was very insistent that it be passed on to me and it seemed a bit rude not to take it. It was a bit hard to understand him of course what with his throat swollen shut but every time I open the drawer and see it there I think of him.
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My mate died of anaphylactic shock , as he lay there choking he kept trying to give me his epipen , he was very insistent that it be passed on to me and it seemed a bit rude not to take it. It was a bit hard to understand him of course what with his throat swollen shut but every time I open the drawer and see it there I think of him.
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@antipodean said in Woo:
@booboo This issue has arisen as a direct result of a generation who think they know better how to raise humans than the grand total of human history. The easiest, and now preferred way, to limit allergies is early exposure.
See! I knew it! (Must have read it somewhere ... )
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Get your popcorn and read this response from a gynaecologist who was targeted by Gwyneth Paltrow for suggesting that some of her GOOP advice was rubbish:
GOOP’s misogynistic, mansplaining hit job
GOOP and Gwyneth Paltrow have a case of GOOPitis, which according to Dr. Steve Gundry is due to my potty mouthed facts. Or tomato skins. Or something. I find it all very disjointed, inadequately re…
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Get your popcorn and read this response from a gynaecologist who was targeted by Gwyneth Paltrow for suggesting that some of her GOOP advice was rubbish:
GOOP’s misogynistic, mansplaining hit job
GOOP and Gwyneth Paltrow have a case of GOOPitis, which according to Dr. Steve Gundry is due to my potty mouthed facts. Or tomato skins. Or something. I find it all very disjointed, inadequately re…
Loved this line (dropped in out of the blue
"Addressing GOOP errors like this one is not disrespecting women it’s pointing out the fucking truth."
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Rabies anyone?
Not a shot! Anti-vax movement prompts Brooklynites to withhold inoculations from their pets, vets say • Brooklyn Paper
Some locals are refusing to vaccinate their pets against virulent and potentially deadly illnesses thanks to a growing crusade against the life-saving inoculations, according to borough vets.
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Rabies anyone?
Not a shot! Anti-vax movement prompts Brooklynites to withhold inoculations from their pets, vets say • Brooklyn Paper
Some locals are refusing to vaccinate their pets against virulent and potentially deadly illnesses thanks to a growing crusade against the life-saving inoculations, according to borough vets.
People are fucking dumb:
'she has heard clients suggest the inoculations could give their pups autism'
