I think my posts are devolving into #notallfoodallergicpeople

Ha!

One of my best friends has allergies to gluten, cow dairy, beef, garlic, onions, mushrooms, fish, nuts, and any food that is fermented (including vanilla). She doesn't eat out much.

Ooh, poor puppy! It's amazing how weird home feels without them there.

I have nothing to add on the dietary front, except that even though I have no restrictions myself, I get super pissy when I'm at a meeting or event and there aren't vegetarian etc options. It's 2015, people! You just have to get a little creative. Or really, it has to occur to you in the first place that there need to be alternatives.

Oh no! Poor Jack!

There are things I can't eat, things I won't eat, and things I just don't want to eat. My restrictions aren't that bad and I mostly can eat around them, but it's frustrating to have a more rare allergy that nobody warns for like they do with peanuts.

I admit that I get impatient with people who are fad diet evangelists, but that's a separate issue in my mind.

So, the new editor that my boss has asked me to help train is...kind of a hot mess. He needs help in learning how to download files from our server and then upload the edited files back to the server (which, to be fair, is complicated and daunting at first).

THIS FUCKING GUY. His problem is not that he can't upload the file to the server; he can't even fucking find where he saved it on his computer, so he can't navigate to the file to upload it.

NOPE. Teaching someone how to USE HIS COMPUTER is where I draw the line. Not my problem. If you can't use your own equipment, I cannot teach you how to use it to interface with the AMA's server. (I'm supposed to invoice them for my time -- and certainly AM -- but I'm not wasting my time and the AMA's money on teaching This Is Your Computer to someone who should already know it. I'm sorry he's frustrated, and I know that different people have different levels of computer literacy. That is certainly okay. But training someone to navigate the AMA's server is very different from "This is how you find a file you saved on your computer. Wait, you don't know what your Downloads folder IS?" NOPE.)

And I emailed my boss and told her that, in much more diplomatic terms.

One of my best friends has allergies to gluten, cow dairy, beef, garlic, onions, mushrooms, fish, nuts, and any food that is fermented (including vanilla). She doesn't eat out much.

It sounds as if she doesn't eat in much, either. What's left, salad vegetables and poultry?

What's left, salad vegetables and poultry?

Rice, corn, potatoes, pork, fruit.

All the non-cow dairy noms!

I was that person once, Teppy. Sadly, I don't think there's anyway to really learn but to do it, and screw up a lot, so I feel bad that he is doing it in a high stakes context like that, but I agree they don't pay you to be a tutor.

I am glad i don't have many food sensitivities/ allergies. I think I might take that hard, paired up with the restrictions on my life that I already have. Also, I'm finally developing a palate that doesn't just want the same twelve things...it would suck to stop.(Although I'm still often weird about texture and mouth feel and stuff that makes me think I was a sommelier in a former life.) I'm still not really sure what gluten is, I guess, as I would have guessed GF cereal to be impossible.

All the non-cow dairy noms!

She found goat milk cheddar, and she is SO HAPPY.

She found goat milk cheddar, and she is SO HAPPY.

Isn't haloumi cheese made from goats' milk? Or maybe sheeps' milk? I keep meaning to try it. I hear it's good grilled.

I'm still not really sure what gluten is, I guess, as I would have guessed GF cereal to be impossible.

It's just the protein in wheat. So many cereals made of corn, for instance (corn flakes, corn chex) are fine for GF people to eat. Also rice (like rice chex).

But Frosted Mini-Wheats are DEATH.