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!"?

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.

Did the label also say "100% mayonnaise-free!"?

I think it said, "May contain trace amounts of mayonnaise."

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.

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.)

Carrots, Corn, Peas, Green Beans, Baby Lima Beans

Also known as, "the 5 vegetables that Fred is willing to eat cooked."

I hate it when I wake up cranky.

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.

"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.

I've had a morning of decent human being and co-worker fail. When complimented on outfit, compliment the fuck back, woman. Also, don't be thirty minutes late for a meeting (aka, forgot entirely about 8:00AM start time), and I also suspect the carwash guy might be wondering about a tip, since I paid up front and didn't give him one. But I don't know if he sucks yet!

This week is just...I am not operating correctly.

When you say "true tea", you mean "unflavoured camellia sinensis", right? I was reading (what I consider) an odd tea instructions document that said that tisanes had to be brewed longer, because they weren't really tea. I don't think that's in the definitions anywhere, tea-brewing internet page.