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.

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

Well, not really, because they're the reason people who have serious issues can't have nice things, by which I mean, they're the reason people who have serious issues get the sideeye and assumptions that they are Paltrowing.

That's what I meant, but you put it more succinctly, Plei.

I got goat milk cheddar at Cowgirl Creamery and it is delicious!

Okay. I need to go wrangle work tasks. And not cry.

As you know, Bob, I was down for the pumpkin spice burger, but I think Pimpkin Spice Vodka is where I draw the line. For some reason.

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Well, not really, because they're the reason people who have serious issues can't have nice things, by which I mean, they're the reason people who have serious issues get the sideeye and assumptions that they are Paltrowing.

But also ironically the reason they can have nice things, in that without all the fad gluten-free folks there's substantially fewer options in the grocery aisle and at the bakery.

My coworker brought goat milk candy from Mexico, which I have been eating all day! Mmmmm....leche de cabra.

I think Pimpkin Spice Vodka is where I draw the line. For some reason.

Because pimpkin ain't easy??

But also ironically the reason they can have nice things, in that without all the fad gluten-free folks there's substantially fewer options in the grocery aisle and at the bakery.

This is also true. One hopes it doesn't dry up with the fad.

But also ironically the reason they can have nice things, in that without all the fad gluten-free folks there's substantially fewer options in the grocery aisle and at the bakery.

This is also true. One hopes it doesn't dry up with the fad.

I will cry if that happens. (I don't actually get much in the way of GF processed foods, but I love that they exist when I need them, like tortillas to make enchiladas [because corn tortillas, while GF, are too small] or fucking graham crackers so I can have a s'more when I'm forced to camp. Also, beer.)