Food Allergies - Enough!

[BSmithington]

This is going to sound harsh but I am so over people complaining about their food allergies. Last night we dined with a couple at a new local restaurant. The restaurant specializes in southern-fusion dishes. Our “friend” has suddenly developed food allergies that include everything from the standard peanut/glutton to raw vegetables to processed sodium.

The night starts with our dinner companion demanding to speak with the Chef. She goes over everything she cannot eat (which is pretty much the entire menu). The chef says the safest option is for him to make a mustard seasoned chicken dish (not on the menu). She agrees and off he goes.

Over the next 30 minutes she complains the food is taking too long and once the specially created dish arrives she complains it’s not seasoned enough and bland tasting. She then says she doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about! I reminded her that she didn’t try anything the restaurant is known for. She said she was going to write a review that the restaurant wasn’t allergy friendly even though the restaurant was her suggestion.

I feel like this allergy thing has gone way too far! How can a chef prepare any dish when someone is allergic to 99% of the ingredients? And why even eat out when you can’t have anything!

 

[usnuzuloose]

I don't have allergies to food per say, but with something I am going through I have to be careful of what I eat now. If not my poor old body goes back to being inflamed. Ouch. My poor diet consists of quite a bit of not having enough to choose from the menu anymore. I mean I would not have the chef come out, so I just usually go with a salad or something with a sandwich, and by pass the bread. You just learn to see what it is you can have and don't eat what you can't have from ordering it. I probably get weird looks, and am sure the waitress scratches her head. LOL at myself..

 

[cleverclovers]

Sounds like your friend is allergic to common sense and manners. Has she always been a drama queen?

 

[Mizzoufan]

I think that would be my last dining trip out with them.

 

[mefordis]

OP - sounds like you could use a good laugh today. (Please know this is all in fun!)

 

[kimblebee]

I'm deathly allergic to nuts. If I go out to eat I choose something that doesn't have nuts. I don't ask about cross contamination or special dishes because I'm a plain eater so I usually get a burger or chicken fingers. I never get dessert because there is a risk there and I don't like making a fuss asking for special dishes.

 

[DisneyLvr55]

This isn't about people with allergies - I grew up with major food allergies and couldn't eat half of what was on any menu and we dealt with it on our own. I know plenty of people with kids with major food allergies, and they don't act like this at all, they just order what they know is okay for their child. Sometimes they will ask if something is fried in peanut oil, but thats pretty much the extent of it.
This has to do with your company, and your company alone.

 

[Luv2Run]

I think I'd suddently develop an allergy to this friend.

 

[disykat]

I agree. Your friend doesn't have a food allergy problem, she has a rude, entitlement problem.

 

[dashofsunshine]

This goes back to a common "belief" from people these days that they are more special and important than everyone else and deserve extra special treatment in every aspect of their lives. Food allergies is just the tip of the iceberg. It's fine to ask questions/talk to the chef if someone has a medical concern; but they shouldn't be snooty about it.

 

[BSmithington]

She's normally a dramatic person. This allergy thing has taken her to a whole new level...

What annoys me is that they as a couple eat out just about every night. If I had a chance of death every time I put food in my mouth I probably wouldn't be trying to hit all the hot spots.

 

[kimj88]

Unfortunately it is people like your friend who make it harder for people with real true life threatening food allergies. Who, by the way, can eat out at a restaurant and not make a huge ordeal and spectacle of themselves like it sounds like she did.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

This is going to sound harsh but I am so over people complaining about their food allergies. Last night we dined with a couple at a new local restaurant. The restaurant specializes in southern-fusion dishes. Our “friend” has suddenly developed food allergies that include everything from the standard peanut/glutton to raw vegetables to processed sodium.

The night starts with our dinner companion demanding to speak with the Chef. She goes over everything she cannot eat (which is pretty much the entire menu). The chef says the safest option is for him to make a mustard seasoned chicken dish (not on the menu). She agrees and off he goes.

Over the next 30 minutes she complains the food is taking too long and once the specially created dish arrives she complains it’s not seasoned enough and bland tasting. She then says she doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about! I reminded her that she didn’t try anything the restaurant is known for. She said she was going to write a review that the restaurant wasn’t allergy friendly even though the restaurant was her suggestion.

I feel like this allergy thing has gone way too far! How can a chef prepare any dish when someone is allergic to 99% of the ingredients? And why even eat out when you can’t have anything!

I doubt your friend has many, if any of the allergies he or she claimed. Sounds to me like she's one of those fad hypochondriacs that have read too many websites claiming this, that and the other is toxic. You'll see em around here on these boards from time to time.

 

[jdb in AZ]

I'm deathly allergic to nuts. If I go out to eat I choose something that doesn't have nuts. I don't ask about cross contamination or special dishes because I'm a plain eater so I usually get a burger or chicken fingers. I never get dessert because there is a risk there and I don't like making a fuss asking for special dishes.

I'm allergic to nuts too -- the nuts that grow on family trees.

 

[BSmithington]

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I doubt your friend has many, if any of the allergies he or she claimed. Sounds to me like she's one of those fad hypochondriacs that have read too many websites claiming this, that and the other is toxic. You'll see em around here on these boards from time to time.

No doubt! How can someone be allergic to salt and survive 40+ years. I always think about the Louis CK joke about people with peanut butter allergies...

 

[usnuzuloose]

There is always a way to deal with things in eating out. I guess if I had a friend that really had issues I would let order what they want from where they could get it and then order my food to go and enjoy our time together. But that is just me.

I know when your on a cruise a chef will come out and talk to you about your issue so they know what your needs are.

 

[DisneyLvr55]

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No doubt! How can someone be allergic to salt and survive 40+ years. I always think about the Louis CK joke about people with peanut butter allergies...

No salt would be due to water retention issues, which would be due to something that has nothing to do with allergies...

 

[diznygirl]

I'm with the others that think this has nothing at all to do with food allergies. My son has them and we do sometimes have to talk to the chef. Your friend is a drama queen. So far we have always been treated with respect, but I'm worried that restaurants will start rolling their eyes and stop being so accommodating because of people like your friend.

 

[chartle]

to raw vegetables to processed sodium.

Whats processed sodium? Sodium is an element. Maybe its MSG or Sodium Nitrate, but we are all allergic to pure sodium. Well allergic is not really the proper term it will just kill you as your insides burn up.


And raw vegetables, how cooked do they need to be before they are not raw?

 

[BSmithington]

No salt would be due to water retention issues, which would be due to something that has nothing to do with allergies...

If you ask her she is allergic to processed sodium. She is also allergic to raw veggies, all things of the ocean and if peanuts are in the same 100 mile radius she will spontaneously explode.