That sounds like the gluten-free beef jerky I saw. I suppose there could be a grain-based filler in the stuff, but I think it's more marketing stuff.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Apr 10, 2013 6:14:47 am PDT #17971 of 30001
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Steph L. - Apr 10, 2013 6:15:19 am PDT #17972 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So I just had some black tea (English Teatime) and the labels is marked "Gluten free." Are there teas that have gluten?
I know there's a Celestial Seasonings holiday tea (maybe gingerbread flavor) that has gluten. It doesn't literally have gingerbread, of course, but for some reason the flavoring they use is barley-based. Weird.
But plain old tea leaves are kind of GF by default. Did the label also say "100% mayonnaise-free!"?
Sparky1 - Apr 10, 2013 6:15:30 am PDT #17973 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Are there teas that have gluten?
True tea does not have gluten, but some teas will have things like barley malt for sweetening, and thus are not gluten free.
tommyrot - Apr 10, 2013 6:22:54 am PDT #17974 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Did the label also say "100% mayonnaise-free!"?
I think it said, "May contain trace amounts of mayonnaise."
Jesse - Apr 10, 2013 6:23:00 am PDT #17975 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I just had some black tea (English Teatime) and the labels is marked "Gluten free." Are there teas that have gluten?
I was just laughing about that kind of thing with friends -- one had seen a gluten-free label on a tomato. A TOMATO.
Granted, I now see that things sold as tea may have gluten, but still.
Steph L. - Apr 10, 2013 6:25:58 am PDT #17976 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Granted, I still have a lot of people tell me they don't know what gluten IS, so they don't know how to provide gluten-free food for me,* so labelling a tomato is apparently a good idea.
*(These people have apparently never fucking heard of Google.)
Fred Pete - Apr 10, 2013 6:27:12 am PDT #17977 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Carrots, Corn, Peas, Green Beans, Baby Lima Beans
Also known as, "the 5 vegetables that Fred is willing to eat cooked."
Burrell - Apr 10, 2013 6:31:24 am PDT #17978 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I hate it when I wake up cranky.
Burrell - Apr 10, 2013 6:37:15 am PDT #17979 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I had such a parental fail this morning. I yelled at both kids. I yelled at my son because he refused to get dressed, and then refused to wear a shirt and insisted he was going to go to school that way. Oy! And then my daughter because, for the upteentn time, I found her waterbottle upside down in her backpack where it had leaked all over her schoolwork, math book, piano theory book, and the upholstered chair where it was all sitting.
sigh. Yes, annoying, but yelling doesn't fix anything. It only makes us late for the bus. It was driving away as I drove up, but luckily the driver was nice enough to pull over and let them on.
So morning of parental fail.
Jessica - Apr 10, 2013 6:38:26 am PDT #17980 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Gluten-free" also means that the item was processed in a gluten-free facility, so is guaranteed to be free of cross-contamination. It's not that the tomatoes might contain gluten, but that they might be packaged at a facility that also packages bread on the same assembly lines.
It's part marketing because gluten-free is a Thing right now, but it's also a genuine health concern for people with celiac.