Gah, I have one friend who is a good guy and I generally enjoy, but he is the weirdest food police ever. I posted on FB that I'm having an IBS flare, and then later posted that I made coffee cake. He replied to the coffee cake post "I'm going to have to revoke your IBS card."
Because...I shouldn't eat food? Ever? I honestly don't know if he's trying to be the annoying moralizing food police on purpose, or if he really thinks he's enlightening me as to how I'm destroying my GI tract. Either way, it's really fucking annoying. He's not a gastroenterologist (not a doctor at all, to be clear), and he doesn't know anything about my IBS (triggers, etc.), so I'm unclear on why he needs to be judgey.
(This is the same guy who once posited that, since I ate a scone after going to the gym, I "undid all the work I did" at the gym. Because, again, I'm getting the sense he thinks I just...shouldn't eat food. Ever.)
That's annoying no matter what his intent is. (Also, even if you cannot eat coffeecake you could very well be making it to serve to others.)
(Also, even if you cannot eat coffeecake you could very well be making it to serve to others.)
I think my post was that it was tasty, so he cleverly Sherlocked that I must have eaten some and therefore don't have IBS. Or something.
But yeah, it's annoying as shit, and I've mostly just tried to ignore his weird food-policing comments, but I think the next time it happens I need to push back. I seriously don't think he's doing it maliciously; I think he just has this idea in his head that he knows what's best (for...everyone, I guess?) and spouts off his opinion where it's not solicited.
Maybe I'll go have some coffee cake right NOW!
So, if you make coffee cake you are not allowed to have IBS?
From what you say, it sounds like he is generally anti-baked goods. Which I cannot condone, baked goods are our friends. And food.
So, if you make coffee cake you are not allowed to have IBS?
Or if you have IBS, you are not allowed to eat baked goods. Or food.
From what you say, it sounds like he is generally anti-baked goods.
I think so. Or at least he is of the opinion that *I* should not eat baked goods. And he is allowed to have that opinion, but I definitely didn't solicit it, nor do I want to hear it.
I think he's just jealous of my coffee cake.
That is what makes the most sense.
So, if you make coffee cake you are not allowed to have IBS?
Well, problem solved then!
I feel like coffee cake is bland enough that it might help IBS?
Clearly, the coffee cake should be sent to ME.
