Milk Allergy and French Fries

[pxidst119]

I’ve been noticing that French Fries are listed as being milk allergy friendly on the Disney website menus. I know a few years ago they used fries with a hydrolized milk in them. DH used to completely avoid fries but he is getting more comfortable with trusting the allergy listings at restaurants. Has anyone with a milk allergy tried them recently and successfully?

 

[abc123mom]

We were just there 3/31-4/3. My daughter is anaphylactic to milk and ate fries without any issues at Electric Umbrella in EPCOT, Cosmic Rays in MK, ABC Commissary & Backlot Express in HS and Restaurantosaurus in AK.

 

[cmwade77]

It sounds like timing wise you might have went right before Disney changed their fries to the current version which are lightly better than the previous, bot still worse than the ones before that.

Just a word of caution though, many locations will use the same fryers as they use for the chicken tenders, which most (if not all) will have milk or other dairy in their breading, so if cross contamination is an issue, you should definitely say something when ordering.

 

[Starwind]

Many of the restaurants [especially QS] have allergy friendly chicken tenders and allergy friendly fries which are milk-safe [as well as safe for many other allergens]. They may not be the same product as the non-allergy-friendly tenders and fries.

This also applies to other items on the allergy menu, e.g. buns. And for something like buns, the buns listed as allergy friendly for one allergy may not be the same ones listed as allergy friendly for another allergy.

And the allergy menus don't list all of what may be available

FWIW, we never rely solely on the allergy menus. We always ask to speak with the location's allergy-trained cast member [who will be a supervisor or manager] or a chef. The allergy menus are a useful guide, but are not always accurate, and they do not take into account cross contamination or "may contain" labels. In addition, if you are dealing with multiple allergies, you can't always just cross-reference [see comment about buns above]. And, not everything that is possible is listed on the allergy menu - whether it is a simple removal or substitution, something more substantive, or something else entirely not listed [e.g. the allergy tenders are not always listed on the allergy menu even though most QS do have them; we discovered this because they are our fallback option]. We are ana milk, tn, pn, seafood and also avoid a couple other things for medical reasons.

SW