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cornsail said:
Has anyone tried gluten free bread btw? It's so so so terrible. My heart goes out to the gluten-averse folks.
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I think it's really hard to find good tasting gluten-free, vegan bread. If you aren't vegan, your options are much better. :)
 
cornsail said:
Whether or not the woman should have prepared her own food from scratch is irrelevant with regard to whether the restaurant did something wrong. Saying you're going to serve someone a gluten-free dish and then serving them a dish full of gluten is a no-no, period. That said, some mistakes are inevitable and I don't see a single mistake as a reason to avoid a restaurant.
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No doubt the restaurant was wrong and is totally responsible if they were advertising gluten free fair, but IMO she was a bit cavalier with her well being.

My wife had a co-worker 25 or so years ago who had a deadly allergy to nuts. They worked at a sheltered workshop for developmentally delayed adults. One of the gals offered her a cookie, she asked if it had any nuts in it, the gal said no, while technically true it wasn't correct as it had almond extract and there was no way for a woman with her disabilities to ever know that counted as nuts. Damn near killed my wife's co-worker who should have known better. She would have died if her co-workers didn't know how to use the adrenalin shot she carried with her and the paramedics didn't get there as quickly as they did. Definitely a WTF was she thinking moment.
 
You know, in retrospect, it could have happened to anyone at any restaurant anywhere. But I guess this was in the news because it happened at a restaurant owned by a celebrity chef, one known for pushing "healthy food". One of the main reasons why I posted it here is because I was under the impression that a lot of people on VV have a hatred, or at least a strong dislike for Jamie Oliver. :???:

When I first opened up the article to read about, I thought the woman got sick because it was contaminated by a fungus or something, or someone in the kitchen sneezed on it or didn't wash his hands before preparing it. Which might have happened anyway. Then I read the article and thought maybe the kitchen staff was deliberately trying to sabotage the dish for some perverse reason. Who knows? :shrug:
 
oh, I forgot he told people to buy veal to support the dairy industry......what an ***.
 
I have a couple of his cookbooks and like the recipes I've tried. I think I'm a decent judge of the healthiness of a recipe based on it's ingredients, though, and accept that or make adjustments.
 
The article also stated she had other health problems. Anywho. Lets leave that a-be now.

As for the veal thing...It doesnt make me hate him just as Hugh Fernly Whatshisname promoting fish doesnt make me hate him...I just respect them a little less.
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As anon...

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Forster said:
No doubt the restaurant was wrong and is totally responsible if they were advertising gluten free fair, but IMO she was a bit cavalier with her well being.

My wife had a co-worker 25 or so years ago who had a deadly allergy to nuts. They worked at a sheltered workshop for developmentally delayed adults. One of the gals offered her a cookie, she asked if it had any nuts in it, the gal said no, while technically true it wasn't correct as it had almond extract and there was no way for a woman with her disabilities to ever know that counted as nuts. Damn near killed my wife's co-worker who should have known better. She would have died if her co-workers didn't know how to use the adrenalin shot she carried with her and the paramedics didn't get there as quickly as they did. Definitely a WTF was she thinking moment.
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Yeah I guess a lot of it comes down to framing. "Hold the nuts please" is very different from "I have a deadly nut allergy. Can you make absolutely certain that this contains no traces of nuts?" I think a restaurant's degree of responsibility is dependent on that sort of thing. A mistake involving a menu item listed as "suitable for people with nut allergies" would be worse than a mistake involving a waiter saying "nah, I'm pretty sure that doesn't have nuts in it" and so on.
 
Alanis Morissette is being awesome again:
Morissette was recently photographed, au naturel, on a Hawaiian beach. After years of near-constant scrutiny, this kind of photographic attention should come as no surprise to a star on vacation — But instead of getting ****** about her lack of privacy, Morissette used the opportunity to promote positive body image with her bedazzled bikini bottom that spelled out “Self Love.”

Her simple, direct message essentially took the power away from the tabloids that might have normally jumped at the opportunity to criticize her post-baby curves (her son, Ever, is two). It also goes to show that “celebrity beach bodies” aren’t even realistic for celebrities! And even though I can’t condone rhinestones on clothing, I can definitely get behind a butt with a message like that (in a totally not weird way).
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Jamie Oliver's special on ABC, the documentary Food Inc., and the movie adaptation to Fast Food Nation, none of which were advocating a vegan or vegetarian diet, helped me to stop being a dick to animals.
 
Forster said:
IDK why someone with that severe of Coeliac disease would be ordering pasta in a restaurant, between the waitress, cook, etc. too many ways a mistake could happen. It's almost as if she was hoping it would happen so she could sue... nah people don't do that.
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Maybe she was just an idiot.
 
maybe she just really likes pasta......I love it myself.
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Pickle Juice said:
Not sure it's lol-worthy, but he slit the throat of a lamb on his show, without stunning the lamb first, which is in violation of UK animal cruelty laws at the very least. I know it's a minority opinion, but I think there is a huge difference between people who mindlessly consume meat without bothering to think hard about where it comes from, and people who are capable of doing their own killing.
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Not cool on the no stun (or the kill at all) BUT killing a lamb live on TV probably created a lot of vegetarians.
 
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