“They Knew It Was Serious, Now She’s Unconscious”: 40 Careless Humans That Purposely Ignored Someone Else’s Food Allergies
As miraculous and wonderful as the human body is, at the end of the day it’s incredibly fragile. Unlike cats, we only have one life to live, one chance to make it right before we end up on the judgment table between Heaven and Hell. Where we shall end up, who knows, but the fact is—having a food allergy can speed that process up significantly.
Allergies can be annoying to begin with; however, they can also be incredibly life-threatening, with one single spoonful of forbidden fruit landing you a ticket to the emergency room. The situation is made a lot more complicated when people decide to ignore them, brushing them off as just a chosen preference.
People have shared their own personal experiences of coming incredibly close to the rainbow bridge, or stories recalling the times when they witnessed the blatant ignoration of their very important needs, all prompted by Candace D.’s tweet, which gathered 158.3K likes on the platform.
Bored Panda had the pleasure of speaking with Dave Bloom, the CEO and Co-Founder of SnackSafely.com, who was kind enough to answer some of our questions.
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There are some people who maybe don’t like something and they’ll say they’re allergic, but then eat something later that contains the same “allergen”. These people need to STOP IT. They are making it difficult for those who actually have allergies to be taken seriously!!!
Food allergies are estimated to affect 4 to 6 percent of children and 4 percent of adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You can even develop an allergy to foods you have eaten for years with no problems, as the immune system creates antibodies to the allergen of choice over time—new fear unlocked! I think it’s safe to say that no one would willingly choose to be allergic to any given food item.
Dave Bloom, the CEO and Co-Founder of SnackSafely.com, a company aiming to improve the lives of those coping with food allergies, and to educate others as a means of eliminating anaphylaxis, told Bored Panda that even a trace amount of an allergen can lead to a serious, life-threatening reaction.
“We always coach our readers with food allergies and celiac disease to know PRECISELY how their food has been prepared and if they have any doubts to forgo eating,” he said. “Even a family member or friend with the best intentions can cause a serious reaction if a trace of their allergen makes its way into their food inadvertently via cross-contact.”
I hope you recovered quickly and brought charges and sued them for expenses and lost pay and got her sorry butt fired.
Dave explains that there are 2 main reasons why people ignore their loved-one’s dietary needs, as seen in the multiple accounts mentioned in this article. “Fad diets have made people increasingly skeptical about dietary restrictions, and people are uninformed about the danger of allergic reactions; they equate reactions with a hive or a rash, but don't understand that reactions can easily escalate into full-blown anaphylaxis and lead to hospitalization or death.”
Finally, Dave believes that the best way to prevent a tragedy is to educate people of the few basic tenets of food allergy. The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) explains that symptoms of a food allergy can range from mild to severe. Just because an initial reaction causes few problems doesn’t mean that all reactions will be similar; in fact, the reactions are likely to get worse over time.
A food that triggered only mild symptoms on one occasion may cause more severe symptoms at another time, the most severe being anaphylaxis—a life-threatening reaction that impacts breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate.
While any food can cause an adverse reaction, eight types of food account for about 90 percent of all reactions: eggs, milk and dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, soy, and sesame. Thus, the primary way to manage a food allergy is to avoid consuming the food that causes you problems. Yet avoiding an allergen is easier said than done.
I have an onion allergy and people are always trying to get me to eat food safe for example out of a can or a frozen TV dinner. Onion is in everything. If I want to eat tacos I have to make this seasoning myself. In fact if I want to eat I pretty much have to make everything myself.
Some people believe that they know what’s best, adding in a little smidge of the forbidden goodie because the person will not even be able to taste it! Wow, isn’t that called poisoning, Barbara? Someone should send you to jail, darlin’. How about giving meat to a vegan? Meat’s good for you right? No, it could mean their death sentence, Barb!
These stories come in abundance, as we’re exploring but a teardrop in the vast ocean of ignorance and blatant malice. Or is there a little bit more to it? Let me introduce you to the cognitive bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect!
At what point it can be considered attempted murder, FFS?! If someone is aware that their friend is allergic to something and they SNEAKLY PUT THAT SOMETHING IN THEIR FOOD is basically like sneakly poisoning them with arsenic. It's the same level of crime, for me. Making someone go to the Emergency room is a big deal and it should have consequences. The medical staff should automatically alert the police, just like if they treat a person who's been shot.
Tainting food is legally assault. ER should go after them on patient's behalf, much like they will for other assault victims.
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People accuse her of being dramatic? What? Do they think she stayed in the ICU just for show? In the US especially? That must have cost her a fortune!
Being allergic does not equal "because I just don't like it." Had this happen with my egg-allergic toddler. MIL didn't want to make any "special considerations" for her, so my kid barfed all over her pretty dress, all over her brother, all over my car and me. She ended up wearing her dad's T-shirt home.
My brothers plane was delayed when someone with a peanut allergy was late and wanted to clean everything himself before anyone could board. This passenger had to be taken to hospital before the plane departed from Schiphol-Amsterdam. Cleaning is done with gloves and clean cloths, but in the rush the handles of the luggage compartments were forgotten.
That's a devastating level of allergy... every place, every person, every thing becomes suspect.
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How can someone accuse her of being dramatic after being in the ICU for 8 days???? What the literal F?? And they messed with food she brought? WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!???
“She spent 8 days in ICU” ~ People: “Oh, quit being so dramatic” ~ Seriously, WTF?? 🤨🤦♀️
ICU is dramatic. A very dramatic place to be. We have to do dramatic things to keep you alive. It is dramatic for the family to watch their loved one suffer and possibly die. But then really, it was actually a word that rhymes with dramatic. TRAUMATIC!🤬 They should be charged/sued or both.
Dramatic? Okay, let me tell you something- WE DONT PLACE PEOPLE IN ICU FOR BEING DRAMATIC! This kind of stuff pisses me off. As a medical professional, we see bed shortages constantly and there's no way in hell that we'd give up a bed in ICU for the hell of it. At most, she would have been in the ER for a few hours and sent home. And also, the airlift transport team would not have come out nor would they have transported her over "drama". I would really like to "talk" to this family!!
That's at least assault, probably even attempted murder. Why, why, WHY put something in SOMEONE ELSES'S food? She brings it so that they don't have to check-check-check everything, and they DESTROY her food, and risk her life!!!
Then your friend should've reported them to the police and pressed charges.
What is wrong with people? I guess this means she can only hang out with people who understand and support her. I have a friend who can never again eat at a restaurant or prepared foods because she has had so many reactions to fish that no epi-pen will save her now. The doctors have told her that her next reaction will be her last.
Attempted murder. And she brought her own food so she should not have been a single bother to anyone. Call the police.
You should be able to press charges. Was it attempted murder or just some form of assault.
As described by Psychology Unlocked, it’s a phenomenon where people seem to be unaware of their incompetence and ignorance. They lack skills or knowledge and greatly overestimate their expertise and talent, and it seems this very much fits with the types of people a lot of these Twitter users faced in their lifetimes.
“Knowing how competent we are and how our skills stack up to other people’s is more than a self-esteem boost,” David Dunning, American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, explained.
“It helps us figure out when we can forge ahead on our own decisions and instincts and when we need, instead, to seek out advice. But,” he added, “psychological research suggests that we’re not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities.”
I’m severely allergic to lemons buts not all citrus. But my BFF’s boyfriend’s bunch of friends decided to secretly squeeze juice into my drink and film my reaction to post on social media (with the title ‘Is there actually an allergy or is she just seeking attention and being dramatic?’) Needless to say, before my friends could warn me, I drank the thing and ended up in hospital. Geez.
My mother in law has celiac disease and i am proud to say our house is the only house she hasn't gotten sick at/in. I scrub everything before, after and during. Thanksgiving is a process but I love and respect her so I will be overly cautious because I wear that badge of honor proudly.
Researchers argue that people are not only incompetent, but their incompetence robs them of the mental ability to realize just how inept they are. These kinds of people tend to overestimate their skill levels, fail to recognize the genuine skill and expertise of other people, and fail to recognize their own mistakes and lack of skill.
So what does this mean in this situation? In simple terms, the concept of food allergies was simply too complex or too unfamiliar to accept; hence they decided to attempt to shift the reality back to what they believed to know to be true and correct, hoping that the situation would simply just disappear and they’d have been right all along.
Admitting to mistakes takes effort, and no one really wants to do that. But it’s better to turn off any judgment and predispositions ringing off in one’s brain, listen to the person expressing their needs, and do the best one can do to accommodate them so that apologies don’t need to then be uttered at the coffin.
I’m a little confused on this one. If she can’t be anywhere near milk how is she going to Starbucks in the first place? I would think she would have issues with cross contamination at any coffee shop.
Me too! Very allergic! If I drink it I ulcerate clean through and bleed out. Can hardly walk and have to go to the emergency. It is like drinking drano. I have had a allergist tell me I couldn't be allergic to coffee because it isn't a protein. You are the first person I know that is allergic also. I get sick from coffee cups in restaurants. I drink hot tea. They will try to serve it in a coffee cup that has just been rinsed out and you can still smell the coffee in the cup when it's empty. Nasty! Use soap for God's sake!! That was in a National pancake restaurant.
Thankfully, all’s well that ends well. What can we learn from this? A lot actually, but the main thing is potentially not to be a jerk to those with food sensitivities, preferences, and allergies. Because none of us are here to act as judge supreme; we’re here to have a good time and do good.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and of course, don’t forget to upvote the stories that you found to be the most interesting and shocking. I’m sure there’ll be quite a few of those… Happy scrolling, curious learning, and I hope to see you all again very soon in the next one!
I know MSG is a common additive, but I thought it also occurs naturally in a lot of different foods. I wonder what this person can eat safely.
Where does OP live? I'm in the US and I've never been served or offered a duck egg in my life. Where is this a typical thing (I'm guessing Asia)?
Very common reaction for vegetarians that are fed animal products if they have been strict with their diet for a long time.
I hate when I over emphasize that I’m diabetic and still bring me reg pancake syrup or a reg Coke. It’s like, please I really must adhere to no sugar in my diet!!! Geez.
I'm curious to know what the rest of the story said...but not curious enough to go to Twitter.
Glad he's your ex. Thanks for the tip about Worcestershire sauce, I never would have guessed that had gluten in it.
I'm allergic to all capsicums, it's amazing how hard it is to explain. 'I'm allergic to bell peppers, but also hot peppers and anything like cayenne, chili powder. I get hives and a bit nauseous, but they don't have to worry too badly about cross contamination. One caterer left the bell peppers out of this incredibly spicy dish they made and presented it to me. Sigh, they really missed the concept.
It’s infuriating to me that people get their feelings hurt when someone can’t or won’t eat the food they made. What you put in your body is a personal issue. Everyone needs to stop being food pushers. A lady at work said it was hurtful that I don’t eat on potluck days at work. I told her I’m the one who has to deal with the effects of certain foods on my body and it’s hurtful to me that she keeps trying to (figuratively) shove food down my throat.
That's probably a good thing. If her diet is that restricted I'm sure she wouldn't want to risk it.
I don’t understand the last sentence, he’s anaphylactic? You mean something caused him to be anaphylactic? It’s not a permanent condition, it happens after a severe allergic reaction, right?
This was a very oddly braggy tweet. The VIP info was really not necessary
Here's your tea, Mom. Only a little bit of drain cleaner in it, you'll never notice./s
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Not an allergy, but on a similar level; My ex-girlfriend once tried to give me a weed gummy. She offered me "I bought some gummies, would you like one?" and I said no because I'd heard her talking about them in the other room and knew what it was. She replied "Damn, I was hoping you would just take it and no ask any questions". She thought it would be fun to see me high considering how I am normally, but knew I wouldn't intentionally smoke or eat an edible. She didn't understand why I had a problem with that, or why I thought that raised some trust issues. It was the last time I went to visit her
Anything related to weed makes me so sick. Migraine with halo, nausea, vomiting, passing out, awakening to three days of terrible headache. As a roadie at rock concerts that's a tough allergy.
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So many of these seem to be based on the idea that allergies only get triggered if the person can taste it. I'm dumbstruck by how many people appear to believe this.
No it's the idea that they're faking it because they don't like it and if they don't taste it nothing will happen because their intolerance/allergy isn't real.
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Adding stuff to people's food after they've been informed should be considered assault. If you know anyone doing it to others, warn people not to trust that person. You can stop them from messing with someone's food once, but they need to know. And if you have relatives doing it to you on purpose, why do you even give them more opportunity? I can't believe that's the only way they're harmful for you. Walk away from people trying to make you sick.
It is legally assault here, and charges can be filed.
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Similarly I hate people who say they have allergies when they don't, they just don't like something. It really makes things difficult for people who actually do have allergies or intolerances. My ex kept saying that he was allergic to cheese. Has a bit of a sandwich with a slice of cheese on it? Immediate, violent, over-the-top reaction. Screaming. Yelling. "fainting". And always at the most inopportune times as well, like right before a big presentation or event. But he'll eat pizza and dishes with cheese cooked into them with no problem. I also had a friend who repeated claimed to be allergic to chocolate, but then admitted that he just doesn't like the taste of it so he tells people he's allergic. He's made fast food places throw out milkshakes because they didn't run the machine X amount of time before making his to make sure any trace of chocolate was gone. I no longer talk to him.
Yes, its annoying that the seriousness of real allergies gets watered down because people want to be "special" or want attention. Stops people taking allergies seriously. Often you can tell the type though, attention seeking elsewhere as well.
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This thread is insane. Even if it's not an allergy, but just an intolerance, a food preference because of religion, dietary choices or just because you don't like it, it's unacceptable to mess with people's food. But when it comes to allergies, the reactions can go from annoying symptoms to death. Some severe allergies are life threatening.
Yeah, I've got to say if someone doesn't want to eat something because they don't want to eat it, or because it might make them actually *die*, people really just need to respect when other people say no.
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My degree is in food science and I took whole classes in college to learn about food allergies. Trust me when I say I take them VERY seriously. Where I'm working now, we have several products that contain nuts. We treat them like they're potential bioweapons. Any equipment they touch gets a full breakdown and clean. After working with nuts we change our gloves and smocks. And outside food is not allowed inside the building. Industrial food production requires multiple levels of sanitation security to ensure the food is safe to eat.
It's not so hard, right? Someone's allergic to garlic? You don't put garlic in their food. Someone's simply dislike garlic? You don't put garlic in their food. Ugh
But when they're allergic I'd think better not use it myself or there may be a trace.
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I'm allergic to a ton of fruit but strawberries put me in the ER. A "friend" tested me years back and I ended up in the hospital all day and half the night without insurance. Still paying for it. People will tell me I'm not allergic to something just because they've never known someone who was. Where's the logic in that? And I know it's weird that I can ingest limes and lemons but can't get the juice on my bare skin. I didn't make me that way and I have no say in it. I'm also allergic to sunlight. Does that mean I'm a vampire?
my best friendhas celiac, it's super annoying bcuz peple never take it seriously because we're teenagers. like one time, we were at mcdonalds she specificly requested a gluten free burger. employee is scrolling on phone and nods blankly, we are eating while walking back to my place and my bestie says she doesnt feel well, three bites later and she projectile vomited all over the sidewalk. AND ANOTHER TIME. we were ordering pizza @pizza hut we asked for gluten free crust, repeated ourselves twice (after the mickey d's incident) and made sure to make eye contact while we said it. 20 mins later, were at my place, bestie takes a big bite of pizza and I do too, shes so hungry she eats 2 pieces then halfway thru our movie she runs to the bathroom and starts puking up blood. It was not gluten free. And that's the story of how pizza hut sent my bestfriend to the ER. But I am totally willing to not eat gluten for her she's my bestie and I love her ❤
You are a good friend! If you feel confident, you can ask your parents or hers to contact the restaurants and lodge a complaint - it can even be done anonymously if you and your bestie don’t want a confrontation or to get someone fired. But it would be a good way to raise awareness of gluten issues as sadly, you are correct, most people dismiss teenagers :( Hang in there, both of you! -from a random old fogey on the internet ;)
Load More Replies... Another story from the food industry. I was working in a brewery and my boss decided to do an oyster beer. I went full on food allergy nazi. Literally everything this liquid touches needs a full breakdown clean and all rubber components need to be tagged and replaced. I myself am allergic to shellfish so I had a horse in that race. After some humming and hahing he finally gave in. If it was up to me, shellfish would be banned from the building, but he was dead set on making it work. Well, I told him what it took to make it safe and I made sure all of that was done. Would have been easier to just skip the stupid oyster beer before we started. Call it malicious compliance, but I made sure that it was the most expensive beer to ever come out of that brewery. I seriously doubt that beer made any money but I hope my boss learned a lesson about food allergies.
Good for you, and thank you for taking this so seriously, protecting your fellow allergy sufferers.
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Bro once my friends mother got angry at me because i wouldn't eat her fruit salad. It was chock full of pineapples. I told her I was allergic and she snapped at me to "eat around them". I was like 'b***h this death juice is covering everying how am I meant to eat around it... Needless to say I didn't get invited back. Also I can't eat avocado (more of a mental thing, its makes me vomit) and the amount of people who get offended by the fact that I don't like avocado (to the point where it makes me sick) is astounding.
Most of the culprits in these posts seem to think that their actions are innocent pranks or tricks when in fact they're not just careless but outright reckless or worse. From what I read after a quick Google, it also looks like many of them may be guilty of commiting a crime - Battery, attempted battery, assault all the way up to manslaughter and homicide if the victim dies.
My sister has a host of allegries and conditions so had to deal with these types of ignorant. My thoughts to most of these cases of people who don't believe and/or do the "just a little", now matter how often told, I just want to tell them "I'll just add some rat poison to their next meal. It's just a little. Should be fine," I settled for Flashbang, crazy spicy hot sauce, to get message across.
There's an all-inclusive my husband and I like to go to every year and the host at each restaurant always asks if you have allergies. By the 2nd days they recognized me as having "too much allergies"! When it's a buffet, the Chef comes out and shows me around and tells me what I can and cannot eat. For breakfast I get juice and they clean-up everything right in front of me and then make my juice. For a sit-down, the waiters are meticulous in what I'm ordering (they check against my list of allergies). This is customer service.
I've been poisoned by accident at a couple restaurants, but why do these people have so many people in their lives who don't take dietary restrictions seriously?! If you have those people in your life, they suck. Push them out of your circle. They don't care about or respect you.
I'm deathly allergic (like in the hospital and air way closing type of thing) to celery and tree nuts (not peanuts-there not a nut) people think I'm lying about the celery because it's "mostly water" and I'm like "oh you're right I don't know my own body. I'll just have some and play Russian roulette with myself and see if the "non water" part gets me this time" Ps it gets me every time. And yes if it touches other food I can't eat that food. It's real people. Just stop
I don't remember it since I was too small, but until I was 7 I had a wheat allergy. And my grandmother tried to give me a biscuit(made with wheat flour of course) because "what kind of birthday it is without biscuits"
I’ve commented about this before, but my cuz (who has allergies to pork and dairy, and also just got diagnosed with Celiac’s) and I were eating a restaurant and the chef thought it’d be “fun” to add a bit of pork to her food. It was not fun at all…
There was a great radio program on the BBC a few weeks back that went into the reasons for allegies. If a person develops a sensitivity to one thing, the body is also "set up" to become sensitive to other things.
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If my food is cooked in an oven that has cooked something with wheat and or dairy it will cause an anaphylactic reaction. I have a halogen oven of my own. If I walk into the kitchen while someone is cooking wheat or dairy I will have an asthma attack. I'm also allergic to apples and knock on effect from being allergic to birch tree pollen. I do not eat any thing I have not made myself, its not worth the risk. My Dad and Sister did not believe me even when I showed them my diagnosis letter. Some people are such idiots! Thankfully I am an adult now.
I'm going to have to gripe about the title of this article. The "thought process" involved in a lot of these stories does not qualify as "human". A lot of these weren't "careless", either, they were willfully malicious (to the point that I'd be comfortable calling some of them attempted murder).
"Oh I just used a little bit of cyanide in your food but you can't taste it so it's fine!" This is what I hear anytime someone is dismissive of another's allergies. If I'm cooking, the first thing I ask is if there are any dietary concerns I need to take into account and if there are I look for alternative recipes. Because. It's. Not. That. Hard!
Please do not ignore it. Even if it's a dietary choice. Because people can get very ill if not DEAD.
I'm deathly allergic to avocado and mango and latex, (fun fact: all the same family) but only avocado will kill me. There is only one Sushi restaurant and one Mexican restaurant I trust to make my food.
We still use latex gloves in my dental office and I ALWAYS ask patients before i glove up- even though I've read their health history. Sometimes when people fill those out, they're only thinking of drugs they're allergic to. The five seconds it takes me to ask is worth not causing a problem for someone (other than the patient who complained that I must be new at dentistry because I'm "too cautious"- I've been doing this for 18 years).
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I'm surprised that someone in this thread equates allergies with being a vegetarian - it's really not the same! One is a choice (and should be respected of course) the other is a life condition and can be fatal.
Vegetarian def isn't an allergy, however if you've been veg for a while your stomach will make less of the stuff needed to digest meat, which causes for a high chance of initial digestive issues when eating meat. If you don't want stomach problems and want to eat meat again, it's generally suggested that you start with fish, build up to chicken, and then something like beef, and slowly build up the amount and frequency so your digestive system properly adjusts. It's like a temporary food intolerance, with (severe) cramps, diarrhoea, etc. Some vegs get such reactions after even a small amount of cubed ham, others can eat a burger and be fine. So while it won't kill you, it will probably kill your toilet.
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I have 0 allergies, but a boatload of sensitivities. Like no I won’t end up in the hospital. But I will be miserable and in the bathroom for the next 1-5 days, probably miss work, etc. Stomach issues also trigger depression and anxiety episodes (a very troublesome cycle). So, no, that bit of food I should ‘just try’ is not worth the long lasting consequences.
I’m allergic to grass pollens, when I got tested, the reaction was so bad it swallowed one of the other pinpricks
I'm allergic to eggs. Turn green and throw up for 4 hours if I eat one. We went out to a Mongolian restaurant. You pick what goes on your plate then hand it to the chef to cook on a huge black stone that looks like a milling stone. Everyone's dinner gets put on that stone. It rotates as it cooks the food and sometimes the chefs mix up people's orders. Then I saw the eggs. They were adding eggs and stirring them into the vegetables. I told them not on mine that I was allergic. Not to let eggs touch it. They cooked my food on the wheel where someone else's food was cooked all day. I was in the bathroom throwing up in just a few minutes. Never went back. How could they be in business like that?
Restaurants like that are pretty cool actually because it gives the food a certain taste due to the mixing. However, for people with allergies, a restaurant like that is absolutely a no-go. I wouldn't blame the restaurant tho because you've seen how the food was prepped and knew they wouldn't be able to make sure you don't have an allergic reaction.
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That goes for people who load up on perfume because they like the scent and dont understand when i say it is making me physically ill.they always say but it is expensive perfume like that makes a difference.it is like if i stabbed you with a knife and said "oh but it"s a japanese chefs knife not a butter knife.stupid
I have too many stories like this. My mom's cousin is allergic to peanuts, but people didn't believe him when he went to school and so he was exposed to peanuts! My cousin, who is allergic to dairy, went to a supposedly "dairy-free" restaurant where he almost died because they put REAL BUTTER on his roll! This one's nowhere near as serious because I don't have celiac, but gluten does make me really sick. I was at my grandparents' house once, and they made mac and cheese with bread on the side -- a lunch I couldn't eat. Just respect people's allergies/intolerances!! End of rant. Thank you.
I guess I have the dissenting position here, but in no way condone giving someone a food that has been adulterated with their allergy-inducing component. I would like to point out though that in my 59 years on the planet I have never met anyone with an allergic reaction to certain foods. I think it is much much more prevalent now than it ever was in the past. Not sure why that is, but the researcher in me would love to know. My dissenting opinion? It is ultimately up to you as the person with the allergy to make sure your food is safe for you. I don't have any food allergies and don't know anyone who does, but I would likely not alter a holiday meal (with generations having made these recipes) because one person can't eat it. That said, I would definitely make something specially for them to eat. I'm just not changing the whole meal.
Asking is the way to make sure it's safe for you. Also allergies have always been a thing, we just eat lots of different things these days. For instance, my sister is allergic to penicillin and mango; 100 years ago, she probably wouldn't have discovered that.
Load More Replies... Allergic to cilantro and celery. Celery I get horribly itchy, but no hives. Cilantro, my tongue swells and my throat closes. But since so many people don't like the taste of cilantro, people assume I'm like that and exaggerating. I can't taste it at all except for a burning feeling. Also sensitive to artificial sweeteners (horrible migraines). Had a friend "test" that. She was shocked that I had a reaction because I didn't know that she did it. She assumed that if I didn't know, I would be fine.
SOY, is my #1 enemy. I won’t die from eating foods with it, but get incredibly sick. I have Interstitial Cystitis. Soy causes such bad flare ups for me, amongst many many other things. It is now known that I.C. symptoms compare to someone suffering from stage 4 cancer. Yet I was told it was all in my head for 10 years! When dr.‘s can’t figure out what’s going on, they give up, & blame the patient.
I am mildly allergic to soy, which I had no idea of until I ran out of milk and tried using my daughter's soy milk on my cereal. Suddenly my mouth and throat were intensely itchy. Thankfully I didn't need anything, but I was shocked all the same, as I've never been allergic to anything ask my life,
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I have sever food allergies worst is onion our house mates who are all Mexican always cut up and cook onion in the apartment. I take a lot of allergy meds so i don't die.i don't have to ingest to react. Just breathing it can kill me.
As somebody who learned to cook and without any kind of food allergy what so ever, I can tell you it´s like tap dancing in a minefield while wearing a blindfold in the dark trying to cook for somebody with allergies. If, for instance, they tell me that they are sensitive against such and such an ingredient, I will try and avoid it to the point of questioning and studying any other substance that goes into what I am cooking. I think that cooking and cooking for people with allergies are two different things all together and should be classed as two different areas of expertese.
Cooking elaborate meals is fun for me. I've cooked for vegans and people unable to have to gluten, onions, garlic, dairy. It's a challenge for sure but only serves to make you a better cook.
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The thing I'm not quite able to figure out is the following: During my upbringing, teenage years and early adult years I've met literally no-one - not a single person with such allergies. Okay there's the frind who has a severse nut allergy... nothing big (he even had apparently more allergies which allowed him to opt out of mandatory military service). And one, at university, who was lactose intolerant, which was also not big deal. And then their was my aunt, who had every year a "new food allergy" (RIP)... but since we've entered the 2015th every second person seems to have a severe allergy, which deeply impacts their life if not being life-threatening. I'm wondering, how people before ca. 2015 survived... if it would be so grave they might have died like flies or being permanently suffering? I don't know? What I've noticed is that food has become a replacement-religion, some people heavily worship. Though it won't do any good to the people, who really have to suffer from an allergy.
People just died. Or were permanently incapacitated (like brain damage from lack of oxygen). It's like autism or mental illness, it's not that they're occurring more, but we are able to identify them more. You may notice them more in your friend and family group because some people develop new allergies as they age.
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Antibiotics. 'Most all of them. Penicillins. Sulfa. Vancomycin. Morphine. Levofloxacin. Keflex Cipro. Cephalosporin. Quinine. Any penicillin derivative. So guess what VA doctor gave me? Twice.
VA medical are a bunch of quack hacks. They've done more harm to the people I love than war has. And there's no recourse or justice for the life changing mistakes they make.
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funny thing is that not so long ago (in relative terms) even doctors in my country would say "an allergy are not an illness" and now there are more and more allergists..
Not very good doctors. Illness is something wrong with your body and allergens can cause illness among other responses.
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I'm curious to know how you find out if you have a gluten sensitivity or something like it because there are times after I eat that I will have stomach cramps and diarrhea for hours, but I can't figure out what the common denominator is.
Remove everything. Have chicken and rice for a few days to normal out then slowly as things. It's not fun but it'll teach you what your body can and cannot digest.
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We had dinner with some friends about a year ago and made BBQ. Suddenly one friend got shortness of breath and asked if there was chili in the food and I told her, that there was indeed chili on some of the different flavoured chicken parts. She did mention before that she didn't like "hot" food, but she didn't mention, that she was allergic to chili. It went all well in the end, but I was ready to call an ambulance, if she wouldn't recover quickly... I still feel bad about this and whenever she comes over to eat together, I check every item twice to make sure, that there is no chili in the ingredients. I can't understand, why someone should do this an purpose...
Please don't feel guilty, it was an honest mistake. She never told you that she had an allergy. I dislike sweet peppers, but it won't kill me if I eat them, the way shrimp will. There's a big difference.
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I intentionally gave someone with peanut allergies something that came in contact with peanuts. Reading this list makes me regret doing that even more. I regret it too much now
OW! Rolling my eyes that hard hurts. I think I saw my brain.
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Had a client that was allergic to rosemary, she couldn't eat by mouth and had a feeding tube, still never kept any rosemary in the house. My ex husband is allergic to jalapenos, went to Whataburger and asked for the plain cheese, was given the jalapeno cheese instead. My sister was on the phone with me when he started to have a reaction. I think my family just thought he was kidding until that day. Scared the hell out of her. Lucky for us we were close to a gas station and was able to get him some Benadryl and that stopped the reaction. I always checked the ingredients before I cooked anything for him. Just bought myself some jalapeno Tabasco sauce to add to my own food after it was on my plate. My niece has a severe peanut allergy, one of her elementary teachers handed out fudge during a field trip, said she thought that my sister was over reacting about her allergies and didn't bother to tell anyone that the fudge had peanuts in it. Luckily another teacher knew about her allergies.
I've recently developed a minor allergy to arugula and it's everywhere nowadays, so I always have to ask- and people are usually confused because who's allergic to arugula? But my mother, sister, one of my brothers and my sons are all anaphylactic to peanuts and tree nuts, and my BIL has been vegan for a loooong time, so we're all hyper aware of dietary restrictions, and people know they can trust us to cook for them. Luckily our area is also very nut aware, so they're very careful when we order food...that being said, some parents are still so clueless. We were at a kids' event once at a farm (so general public, not people who knew us), and taking a tractor ride, the woman beside us opened up her bag and handed her young (as in, will touch everything with dirty hands, young) children peanut butter sandwiches. Surrounded by hundreds of children, when peanuts are such a common deadly allergy! I had my kids move to the other side of the tractor and told them not to touch anything...
Pip fruit, especially apples. Do you know how many things have fructose in them? You know fructose is made 90% of the time from apples? I ask for people to check, they wave it aside, it's an impossible allergy. No it's not! I make all my food from scratch because I can't trust anything
I feel this so much. I am celiac and ppl are constantly "glutening" me. It's to the point that I carry gluten dogesting enzymes with me wherever I go, and even then I will be down for the next 24 hours with a raging migraine and lightheadedness. gluten affects my brain instead of my digestive system. I have nearly blacked out multiple times. It's terrifying to eat at restaurants now. I pretty much just eat at home. My mom has accidentally got me a few times, but it really was an accident on her part. The last time I tried to eat at a local restaurant (supposedly GF friendly), the waitress asked if I was ok with a regular baguette on my plate. Like, no, you raging imbecile, I am not. All I can say is thank God for digestive enzymes because I am legitimately concerned that wheat can potentially put me in a coma.
I'm not sure if this counts but I found out I can't eat spicy foods when I was 13 after I projectile vomitted while being sang at for my birthday after eating spicy fried rice. I also am not allowed alcoholic beverages and coffee since both has a negative effect if mixed with a medication I take, alcohol can put me on a coma while coffee makes me palpitate so bad.
My sister and I are both allergic to all alliums (garlics, onions, etc.), and for either of us to eat them means at least 30 hours of pain, misery, and having to stay home because there isn't a bathroom close enough if we're out of the house. My former MIL never believed I was allergic to both garlic and onions, and would put both of them into many of the dishes she cooked. It got to where, when she and FIL invited us to dinner, I'd just drink coffee, eat dinner rolls/biscuits, and have dessert because I couldn't trust her at all. Now I rarely eat out because I know perfectly well that the same grill they're cooking my steak (hamburger, eggs, etc.) on also cooked onions just a little while earlier, and I can't risk it.
I've worked in food-service for many years. And yes, there are times when we think someone is lying about a food allergy. BUT even so, we always do our best to prepare said food safely (changing gloves, etc), and we always warn people "We cannot rule out that there might be traces" of that allergen in their food. Most of the time they're fine with that. Even if we think someone is lying, there's no way to know for sure, and that is simply too big a chance to take. So we might talk about it among ourselves. But we still respect the customer's order.
I'm an alcoholic (sober for 13 years). Thanksgiving/Christmas time gets my antennae up. Have to ask frequently if there is alcohol in everything celebratory. You just never know.
A friend of mine can't have any alcohol due to his medication. If he has any he throws up A LOT and is basically out of order for a day or two. We want to a party recently and some of our friends friends thought it be funny to give him drink promising it's a mocktail. He only had one sip when he noticed the taste of vodka. He spent the rest of the night throwing up and not being able to go into work the next day because his whole body hurt - ITS NOT FUNNY
I had a dysfunctional liver for years, so I had to avoid a lot of foods and alcohol. The pressure people put on me to drink was horrible. I have so much admiration for and sympathy with recovering alcoholics.
i cannot eat turkey meat it makes me vomit i tried several times. i wasnt tested or anything and i dont understand why every other meat is fine for me. luckily in my country it is not the most common meat, you have chicken, pork or beef more often. but on an occasion when turkey meat was served and I didnt want to eat it a "friend" rolled her eyes with "you still have some problem". like wtf i said it makes me feel sick i ate it for not to be hungry and was sick later. luckily didnt vomit that time, but i didnt eat much. that was the last time i had turkey. she is not my friend anymore, not only because of this
I've a friend with coeliac disease who was very sick after eating a Gluten Free chocolate cake in a cafe. When she went back to say she'd been sick from it and didn't think it had been gluten free, the owner said it wasn't GF, but it sold better if they said it was.
I absolutely have no intention of deliberately serving someone with an allergy or intolerance the foods that they will react to. But I do think a majority of these complaints revolved around fast food and group meal events. There comes a point where you need to accept you cannot trust certain dining arrangements unless you provide your own food. And I know that sounds harsh, but if I'm cooking to feed 30 people, I won't alter my recipe for you. And requesting restaurants alter their kitchen setup is unrealistic. Sure, onions off a burger or transparency about ingredients I fully support, bit I can't remake multiple dishes to avoid a seasoning
It's amazing how few people take my wife's Latex allergy seriously.
I didn't find out about my food allergies until I was 32, when my food-allergic daughter was 17 months old and had a reaction to peanut (her first time). She'd had other reactions to food and I was done guessing. I took her to a board-certified allergist who provided me with her laundry list of allergies. About a month later, I broke out in hives from my head to my toes about 4 times a year, and it clicked - I went to the allergist and got my own list. Some of our allergies overlap (eg milk and eggs), some don't, but suffice it to say we don't eat out and convenience food is not an option.
I once got really sick so I was prescribed some penicillin, i started to feel better then I got big rashes all over and had headaches. turns out im allergic to penicillin
I have an insanely severe allergy to tree nuts, which is all the nut’s except peanuts (they are legumes) and coconuts (not actually nuts). And almost all my allergic reactions have been someone not knowing if there are nuts in a food and telling me there isn’t! And then when within ten minutes when my mouth and throat start to itch and taste weirdly metallic, so I ask again and they go actually I’m not sure let me check with xyz, and by the time they come back, I’m trying to keep breathing while giving myself the epinephrine injection while also calling 911! And funfact: epinephrine makes your heart beat much faster, so if someone takes theirs then passes out, call 911 because they need to be treated and have their heart rate monitored.
I'm also allergic to tree nuts, and they're surprisingly difficult to avoid.
Load More Replies... Meanwhile I once offered some cookies to my coworker that I just bought on my launch break, he took one, realised they were coconut (he assumed they were vanilla, I did not think to go into details about flavouring, honest mistake on both part), and he just sat there with a very funny expression, not wanting to be rude and spit it out but really hating the taste. It was not any sort of allergies, he simply hates coconut flavour with a passion. I still felt bad for a long time for another accidentally "forcing him" to eat something he hates. I would never even think of putting stuff in someone's food on purpose who told me - for whatever reason - they didn't want to eat x, y or z.
The only MILDLY similar thing I ever do is offering experimental food to my partner without telling him what's in them. It's just to see if he can taste the chocolate cream was made from zucchini etc. I know he's not allergic, he knows it's something weird, and we both know there isn't anything in there he would specifically not want to eat. We trust each other and it's just a game. But I won't hide olives in anything when I know he hates them.
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The only thing that I saw that I disagreed with was the "of you want pepper you can add it later" in the beginning. When you add spices effects the flavor. I'd much rather make two versions of the dish. But i love to cook and making multiple dishes so everyone can enjoy is a good time for me
Pepper does little to enhance the flavor of the ingredients and can very easily be completely omitted in any dish.
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If you are gluten intolerant or suffer from celiac or colitis, or any gluten-based reaction, avoid any product with undeclared dextrose. It is often sourced from gluten products.
No. Just no. If someone mentions that they have an allergy or sensitivity to a food or other substance, take it as a fact. I am allergic to many perfumes, colognes, air fresheners, beauty products and other chemicals. I have a fantastic rash, swelling and respiratory issue that comes with it. This is not a joke nor something to be trifled with. Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners trigger a migraine for me too. Not fun.
It's not food, but I have a penicillin allergy. I found out when I ended up in hospital for 19 days and had to be on dialysis because my kidneys shut down. My nephrologist told me I can't have any beta lactam antibiotics at all, ever. TWICE I've had doctors prescribe me antibiotics and I've asked them if it's in that family and they've said no and given me the prescription paper, but when I ask again at the pharmacy desk it turns out it is, and the doctor has to redo the prescription for an antibiotic that WON'T kill me. I get that a lot of people think they're allergic to penicillin who aren't actually (apparently it's really common to think you are when you aren't) but geez guys, even the allergist wasn't willing to mess around with that strong of a reaction on the table. You really could have killed me.
My dad is deathly allergic to rosemary. If he eats anything with rosemary in it he goes into anaphylaxis like a peanut allergy. My mom's family is fully aware of this. Well, couple years ago, we went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving, and everything they made had rosemary in it. My dad couldn't eat any of it. I should also mention me and my dad are the outcasts of the family because we're "dirty city people" so it was absolutely intentional.
im allergic to shellfish and the SMELL of fish. if ur wondering how thats possible the smell of fish is a fish protein in the air. im allergic to that. weirdly enough i can eat it fine but only salmon and cod any other kind ill get the same reaction i do as wen there is a fishy smell. anyways we called up a restaurant my aunt wanted to go to for her 50th bday. it was a steak and seafood place. we asked if it had a fishy smell bc i had an allergy to the smell and they said no. we get there and it does smell like fish. my parents and everyone else in my family demanded to see the manager. wen they came out my family told them about the call and the manager said that he never heard of an allergy to the smell of fish and as i was walking out to get fresh air i had a terrible reaction. ambulance and police came and my parents explained to the emts wat happened a cop overheard her and arrested the manager for endangering my life. the restaurant shut down after awhile bc it ended up on the local news and ppl stopped going there. wen u live in a town where basically everyone knows each other the last thing u should do is endanger someones life. not only will u get arrested but u will also put all the ppl u worked with in a now unemployed situation. we found out later that even if it didnt smell i wouldve had a reaction bc their fried shrimp and french fries were fried in the same oil. either way theyd b in trouble. how did we find out a girl who had a shellfish allergy but loved fish wen there and got fries with her baked cod filets. she mentioned the allergy too. her situation was also on the news and thats wen their business really tanked. they lost half after me and then the rest after her. ud think a new manager would fix the situation but nope. the cooks ignored both waiter and new manager. ur probably wondering y my aunt would chose a seafood restaurant in the first place knowing everyone including me would b there. well we did tell her anywhere she wanted and it was her 50th bday and any milestone bday gets a celebration in my family. we took the precautions and called but they were just rude and ignored it all.
My husband is vegan. I've lost track of how many times his mom will pour her extra dipping sauce into his cup of sauce, even though she had been dipping chicken in hers. She thought she was being nice by giving him more sauce /sigh. She's got celiac and is very limited in the restaurants she can eat at, so finding ones for her that also has food for my husband is challenging. Especially as he's allergic to most things that go in salads, and no longer eats a salad we didn't make ourselves.
I react to fragrance of any kind and chemicals( have gotten chemical burns from fabric softener). Have been told there's nothing work can do to make people not wear fragrance at work. Done people think it's funny or pull the but it smells good or wouldn't you rather smell this than whatever? It's always fun to get vertigo and be sick for days because whoops! "I just put on scented lotion but it barely smells". But according to my Dr my body just acts like it's dying, I'll survive.
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If I develop a deadly allergy, I won’t tell anyone, to avoid stuff like this. I would not trust anyone’s word if what they consider a white lie could kill me. I have a certain phobia and have never told anyone to avoid some joker getting word of it and trying to be funny. It’s not even a dangerous thing. Don’t tell people your kryptonite
Depending on maturity of your friends and acquaintances, you could have a valid point.
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Not an allergy, but on a similar level; My ex-girlfriend once tried to give me a weed gummy. She offered me "I bought some gummies, would you like one?" and I said no because I'd heard her talking about them in the other room and knew what it was. She replied "Damn, I was hoping you would just take it and no ask any questions". She thought it would be fun to see me high considering how I am normally, but knew I wouldn't intentionally smoke or eat an edible. She didn't understand why I had a problem with that, or why I thought that raised some trust issues. It was the last time I went to visit her
Anything related to weed makes me so sick. Migraine with halo, nausea, vomiting, passing out, awakening to three days of terrible headache. As a roadie at rock concerts that's a tough allergy.
Load More Replies... So many of these seem to be based on the idea that allergies only get triggered if the person can taste it. I'm dumbstruck by how many people appear to believe this.
No it's the idea that they're faking it because they don't like it and if they don't taste it nothing will happen because their intolerance/allergy isn't real.
Load More Replies... Adding stuff to people's food after they've been informed should be considered assault. If you know anyone doing it to others, warn people not to trust that person. You can stop them from messing with someone's food once, but they need to know. And if you have relatives doing it to you on purpose, why do you even give them more opportunity? I can't believe that's the only way they're harmful for you. Walk away from people trying to make you sick.
It is legally assault here, and charges can be filed.
Load More Replies... Similarly I hate people who say they have allergies when they don't, they just don't like something. It really makes things difficult for people who actually do have allergies or intolerances. My ex kept saying that he was allergic to cheese. Has a bit of a sandwich with a slice of cheese on it? Immediate, violent, over-the-top reaction. Screaming. Yelling. "fainting". And always at the most inopportune times as well, like right before a big presentation or event. But he'll eat pizza and dishes with cheese cooked into them with no problem. I also had a friend who repeated claimed to be allergic to chocolate, but then admitted that he just doesn't like the taste of it so he tells people he's allergic. He's made fast food places throw out milkshakes because they didn't run the machine X amount of time before making his to make sure any trace of chocolate was gone. I no longer talk to him.
Yes, its annoying that the seriousness of real allergies gets watered down because people want to be "special" or want attention. Stops people taking allergies seriously. Often you can tell the type though, attention seeking elsewhere as well.
Load More Replies... This thread is insane. Even if it's not an allergy, but just an intolerance, a food preference because of religion, dietary choices or just because you don't like it, it's unacceptable to mess with people's food. But when it comes to allergies, the reactions can go from annoying symptoms to death. Some severe allergies are life threatening.
Yeah, I've got to say if someone doesn't want to eat something because they don't want to eat it, or because it might make them actually *die*, people really just need to respect when other people say no.
Load More Replies... My degree is in food science and I took whole classes in college to learn about food allergies. Trust me when I say I take them VERY seriously. Where I'm working now, we have several products that contain nuts. We treat them like they're potential bioweapons. Any equipment they touch gets a full breakdown and clean. After working with nuts we change our gloves and smocks. And outside food is not allowed inside the building. Industrial food production requires multiple levels of sanitation security to ensure the food is safe to eat.
It's not so hard, right? Someone's allergic to garlic? You don't put garlic in their food. Someone's simply dislike garlic? You don't put garlic in their food. Ugh
But when they're allergic I'd think better not use it myself or there may be a trace.
Load More Replies... I'm allergic to a ton of fruit but strawberries put me in the ER. A "friend" tested me years back and I ended up in the hospital all day and half the night without insurance. Still paying for it. People will tell me I'm not allergic to something just because they've never known someone who was. Where's the logic in that? And I know it's weird that I can ingest limes and lemons but can't get the juice on my bare skin. I didn't make me that way and I have no say in it. I'm also allergic to sunlight. Does that mean I'm a vampire?
my best friendhas celiac, it's super annoying bcuz peple never take it seriously because we're teenagers. like one time, we were at mcdonalds she specificly requested a gluten free burger. employee is scrolling on phone and nods blankly, we are eating while walking back to my place and my bestie says she doesnt feel well, three bites later and she projectile vomited all over the sidewalk. AND ANOTHER TIME. we were ordering pizza @pizza hut we asked for gluten free crust, repeated ourselves twice (after the mickey d's incident) and made sure to make eye contact while we said it. 20 mins later, were at my place, bestie takes a big bite of pizza and I do too, shes so hungry she eats 2 pieces then halfway thru our movie she runs to the bathroom and starts puking up blood. It was not gluten free. And that's the story of how pizza hut sent my bestfriend to the ER. But I am totally willing to not eat gluten for her she's my bestie and I love her ❤
You are a good friend! If you feel confident, you can ask your parents or hers to contact the restaurants and lodge a complaint - it can even be done anonymously if you and your bestie don’t want a confrontation or to get someone fired. But it would be a good way to raise awareness of gluten issues as sadly, you are correct, most people dismiss teenagers :( Hang in there, both of you! -from a random old fogey on the internet ;)
Load More Replies... Another story from the food industry. I was working in a brewery and my boss decided to do an oyster beer. I went full on food allergy nazi. Literally everything this liquid touches needs a full breakdown clean and all rubber components need to be tagged and replaced. I myself am allergic to shellfish so I had a horse in that race. After some humming and hahing he finally gave in. If it was up to me, shellfish would be banned from the building, but he was dead set on making it work. Well, I told him what it took to make it safe and I made sure all of that was done. Would have been easier to just skip the stupid oyster beer before we started. Call it malicious compliance, but I made sure that it was the most expensive beer to ever come out of that brewery. I seriously doubt that beer made any money but I hope my boss learned a lesson about food allergies.
Good for you, and thank you for taking this so seriously, protecting your fellow allergy sufferers.
Load More Replies... Bro once my friends mother got angry at me because i wouldn't eat her fruit salad. It was chock full of pineapples. I told her I was allergic and she snapped at me to "eat around them". I was like 'b***h this death juice is covering everying how am I meant to eat around it... Needless to say I didn't get invited back. Also I can't eat avocado (more of a mental thing, its makes me vomit) and the amount of people who get offended by the fact that I don't like avocado (to the point where it makes me sick) is astounding.
Most of the culprits in these posts seem to think that their actions are innocent pranks or tricks when in fact they're not just careless but outright reckless or worse. From what I read after a quick Google, it also looks like many of them may be guilty of commiting a crime - Battery, attempted battery, assault all the way up to manslaughter and homicide if the victim dies.
My sister has a host of allegries and conditions so had to deal with these types of ignorant. My thoughts to most of these cases of people who don't believe and/or do the "just a little", now matter how often told, I just want to tell them "I'll just add some rat poison to their next meal. It's just a little. Should be fine," I settled for Flashbang, crazy spicy hot sauce, to get message across.
There's an all-inclusive my husband and I like to go to every year and the host at each restaurant always asks if you have allergies. By the 2nd days they recognized me as having "too much allergies"! When it's a buffet, the Chef comes out and shows me around and tells me what I can and cannot eat. For breakfast I get juice and they clean-up everything right in front of me and then make my juice. For a sit-down, the waiters are meticulous in what I'm ordering (they check against my list of allergies). This is customer service.
I've been poisoned by accident at a couple restaurants, but why do these people have so many people in their lives who don't take dietary restrictions seriously?! If you have those people in your life, they suck. Push them out of your circle. They don't care about or respect you.
I'm deathly allergic (like in the hospital and air way closing type of thing) to celery and tree nuts (not peanuts-there not a nut) people think I'm lying about the celery because it's "mostly water" and I'm like "oh you're right I don't know my own body. I'll just have some and play Russian roulette with myself and see if the "non water" part gets me this time" Ps it gets me every time. And yes if it touches other food I can't eat that food. It's real people. Just stop
I don't remember it since I was too small, but until I was 7 I had a wheat allergy. And my grandmother tried to give me a biscuit(made with wheat flour of course) because "what kind of birthday it is without biscuits"
I’ve commented about this before, but my cuz (who has allergies to pork and dairy, and also just got diagnosed with Celiac’s) and I were eating a restaurant and the chef thought it’d be “fun” to add a bit of pork to her food. It was not fun at all…
There was a great radio program on the BBC a few weeks back that went into the reasons for allegies. If a person develops a sensitivity to one thing, the body is also "set up" to become sensitive to other things.
Load More Replies... If my food is cooked in an oven that has cooked something with wheat and or dairy it will cause an anaphylactic reaction. I have a halogen oven of my own. If I walk into the kitchen while someone is cooking wheat or dairy I will have an asthma attack. I'm also allergic to apples and knock on effect from being allergic to birch tree pollen. I do not eat any thing I have not made myself, its not worth the risk. My Dad and Sister did not believe me even when I showed them my diagnosis letter. Some people are such idiots! Thankfully I am an adult now.
I'm going to have to gripe about the title of this article. The "thought process" involved in a lot of these stories does not qualify as "human". A lot of these weren't "careless", either, they were willfully malicious (to the point that I'd be comfortable calling some of them attempted murder).
"Oh I just used a little bit of cyanide in your food but you can't taste it so it's fine!" This is what I hear anytime someone is dismissive of another's allergies. If I'm cooking, the first thing I ask is if there are any dietary concerns I need to take into account and if there are I look for alternative recipes. Because. It's. Not. That. Hard!
Please do not ignore it. Even if it's a dietary choice. Because people can get very ill if not DEAD.
I'm deathly allergic to avocado and mango and latex, (fun fact: all the same family) but only avocado will kill me. There is only one Sushi restaurant and one Mexican restaurant I trust to make my food.
We still use latex gloves in my dental office and I ALWAYS ask patients before i glove up- even though I've read their health history. Sometimes when people fill those out, they're only thinking of drugs they're allergic to. The five seconds it takes me to ask is worth not causing a problem for someone (other than the patient who complained that I must be new at dentistry because I'm "too cautious"- I've been doing this for 18 years).
Load More Replies... I'm surprised that someone in this thread equates allergies with being a vegetarian - it's really not the same! One is a choice (and should be respected of course) the other is a life condition and can be fatal.
Vegetarian def isn't an allergy, however if you've been veg for a while your stomach will make less of the stuff needed to digest meat, which causes for a high chance of initial digestive issues when eating meat. If you don't want stomach problems and want to eat meat again, it's generally suggested that you start with fish, build up to chicken, and then something like beef, and slowly build up the amount and frequency so your digestive system properly adjusts. It's like a temporary food intolerance, with (severe) cramps, diarrhoea, etc. Some vegs get such reactions after even a small amount of cubed ham, others can eat a burger and be fine. So while it won't kill you, it will probably kill your toilet.
Load More Replies... I have 0 allergies, but a boatload of sensitivities. Like no I won’t end up in the hospital. But I will be miserable and in the bathroom for the next 1-5 days, probably miss work, etc. Stomach issues also trigger depression and anxiety episodes (a very troublesome cycle). So, no, that bit of food I should ‘just try’ is not worth the long lasting consequences.
I’m allergic to grass pollens, when I got tested, the reaction was so bad it swallowed one of the other pinpricks
I'm allergic to eggs. Turn green and throw up for 4 hours if I eat one. We went out to a Mongolian restaurant. You pick what goes on your plate then hand it to the chef to cook on a huge black stone that looks like a milling stone. Everyone's dinner gets put on that stone. It rotates as it cooks the food and sometimes the chefs mix up people's orders. Then I saw the eggs. They were adding eggs and stirring them into the vegetables. I told them not on mine that I was allergic. Not to let eggs touch it. They cooked my food on the wheel where someone else's food was cooked all day. I was in the bathroom throwing up in just a few minutes. Never went back. How could they be in business like that?
Restaurants like that are pretty cool actually because it gives the food a certain taste due to the mixing. However, for people with allergies, a restaurant like that is absolutely a no-go. I wouldn't blame the restaurant tho because you've seen how the food was prepped and knew they wouldn't be able to make sure you don't have an allergic reaction.
Load More Replies... That goes for people who load up on perfume because they like the scent and dont understand when i say it is making me physically ill.they always say but it is expensive perfume like that makes a difference.it is like if i stabbed you with a knife and said "oh but it"s a japanese chefs knife not a butter knife.stupid
I have too many stories like this. My mom's cousin is allergic to peanuts, but people didn't believe him when he went to school and so he was exposed to peanuts! My cousin, who is allergic to dairy, went to a supposedly "dairy-free" restaurant where he almost died because they put REAL BUTTER on his roll! This one's nowhere near as serious because I don't have celiac, but gluten does make me really sick. I was at my grandparents' house once, and they made mac and cheese with bread on the side -- a lunch I couldn't eat. Just respect people's allergies/intolerances!! End of rant. Thank you.
I guess I have the dissenting position here, but in no way condone giving someone a food that has been adulterated with their allergy-inducing component. I would like to point out though that in my 59 years on the planet I have never met anyone with an allergic reaction to certain foods. I think it is much much more prevalent now than it ever was in the past. Not sure why that is, but the researcher in me would love to know. My dissenting opinion? It is ultimately up to you as the person with the allergy to make sure your food is safe for you. I don't have any food allergies and don't know anyone who does, but I would likely not alter a holiday meal (with generations having made these recipes) because one person can't eat it. That said, I would definitely make something specially for them to eat. I'm just not changing the whole meal.
Asking is the way to make sure it's safe for you. Also allergies have always been a thing, we just eat lots of different things these days. For instance, my sister is allergic to penicillin and mango; 100 years ago, she probably wouldn't have discovered that.
Load More Replies... Allergic to cilantro and celery. Celery I get horribly itchy, but no hives. Cilantro, my tongue swells and my throat closes. But since so many people don't like the taste of cilantro, people assume I'm like that and exaggerating. I can't taste it at all except for a burning feeling. Also sensitive to artificial sweeteners (horrible migraines). Had a friend "test" that. She was shocked that I had a reaction because I didn't know that she did it. She assumed that if I didn't know, I would be fine.
SOY, is my #1 enemy. I won’t die from eating foods with it, but get incredibly sick. I have Interstitial Cystitis. Soy causes such bad flare ups for me, amongst many many other things. It is now known that I.C. symptoms compare to someone suffering from stage 4 cancer. Yet I was told it was all in my head for 10 years! When dr.‘s can’t figure out what’s going on, they give up, & blame the patient.
I am mildly allergic to soy, which I had no idea of until I ran out of milk and tried using my daughter's soy milk on my cereal. Suddenly my mouth and throat were intensely itchy. Thankfully I didn't need anything, but I was shocked all the same, as I've never been allergic to anything ask my life,
Load More Replies... I have sever food allergies worst is onion our house mates who are all Mexican always cut up and cook onion in the apartment. I take a lot of allergy meds so i don't die.i don't have to ingest to react. Just breathing it can kill me.
As somebody who learned to cook and without any kind of food allergy what so ever, I can tell you it´s like tap dancing in a minefield while wearing a blindfold in the dark trying to cook for somebody with allergies. If, for instance, they tell me that they are sensitive against such and such an ingredient, I will try and avoid it to the point of questioning and studying any other substance that goes into what I am cooking. I think that cooking and cooking for people with allergies are two different things all together and should be classed as two different areas of expertese.
Cooking elaborate meals is fun for me. I've cooked for vegans and people unable to have to gluten, onions, garlic, dairy. It's a challenge for sure but only serves to make you a better cook.
Load More Replies... The thing I'm not quite able to figure out is the following: During my upbringing, teenage years and early adult years I've met literally no-one - not a single person with such allergies. Okay there's the frind who has a severse nut allergy... nothing big (he even had apparently more allergies which allowed him to opt out of mandatory military service). And one, at university, who was lactose intolerant, which was also not big deal. And then their was my aunt, who had every year a "new food allergy" (RIP)... but since we've entered the 2015th every second person seems to have a severe allergy, which deeply impacts their life if not being life-threatening. I'm wondering, how people before ca. 2015 survived... if it would be so grave they might have died like flies or being permanently suffering? I don't know? What I've noticed is that food has become a replacement-religion, some people heavily worship. Though it won't do any good to the people, who really have to suffer from an allergy.
People just died. Or were permanently incapacitated (like brain damage from lack of oxygen). It's like autism or mental illness, it's not that they're occurring more, but we are able to identify them more. You may notice them more in your friend and family group because some people develop new allergies as they age.
Load More Replies... Antibiotics. 'Most all of them. Penicillins. Sulfa. Vancomycin. Morphine. Levofloxacin. Keflex Cipro. Cephalosporin. Quinine. Any penicillin derivative. So guess what VA doctor gave me? Twice.
VA medical are a bunch of quack hacks. They've done more harm to the people I love than war has. And there's no recourse or justice for the life changing mistakes they make.
Load More Replies... funny thing is that not so long ago (in relative terms) even doctors in my country would say "an allergy are not an illness" and now there are more and more allergists..
Not very good doctors. Illness is something wrong with your body and allergens can cause illness among other responses.
Load More Replies... I'm curious to know how you find out if you have a gluten sensitivity or something like it because there are times after I eat that I will have stomach cramps and diarrhea for hours, but I can't figure out what the common denominator is.
Remove everything. Have chicken and rice for a few days to normal out then slowly as things. It's not fun but it'll teach you what your body can and cannot digest.
Load More Replies... We had dinner with some friends about a year ago and made BBQ. Suddenly one friend got shortness of breath and asked if there was chili in the food and I told her, that there was indeed chili on some of the different flavoured chicken parts. She did mention before that she didn't like "hot" food, but she didn't mention, that she was allergic to chili. It went all well in the end, but I was ready to call an ambulance, if she wouldn't recover quickly... I still feel bad about this and whenever she comes over to eat together, I check every item twice to make sure, that there is no chili in the ingredients. I can't understand, why someone should do this an purpose...
Please don't feel guilty, it was an honest mistake. She never told you that she had an allergy. I dislike sweet peppers, but it won't kill me if I eat them, the way shrimp will. There's a big difference.
Load More Replies... I intentionally gave someone with peanut allergies something that came in contact with peanuts. Reading this list makes me regret doing that even more. I regret it too much now
OW! Rolling my eyes that hard hurts. I think I saw my brain.
Load More Replies... Had a client that was allergic to rosemary, she couldn't eat by mouth and had a feeding tube, still never kept any rosemary in the house. My ex husband is allergic to jalapenos, went to Whataburger and asked for the plain cheese, was given the jalapeno cheese instead. My sister was on the phone with me when he started to have a reaction. I think my family just thought he was kidding until that day. Scared the hell out of her. Lucky for us we were close to a gas station and was able to get him some Benadryl and that stopped the reaction. I always checked the ingredients before I cooked anything for him. Just bought myself some jalapeno Tabasco sauce to add to my own food after it was on my plate. My niece has a severe peanut allergy, one of her elementary teachers handed out fudge during a field trip, said she thought that my sister was over reacting about her allergies and didn't bother to tell anyone that the fudge had peanuts in it. Luckily another teacher knew about her allergies.
I've recently developed a minor allergy to arugula and it's everywhere nowadays, so I always have to ask- and people are usually confused because who's allergic to arugula? But my mother, sister, one of my brothers and my sons are all anaphylactic to peanuts and tree nuts, and my BIL has been vegan for a loooong time, so we're all hyper aware of dietary restrictions, and people know they can trust us to cook for them. Luckily our area is also very nut aware, so they're very careful when we order food...that being said, some parents are still so clueless. We were at a kids' event once at a farm (so general public, not people who knew us), and taking a tractor ride, the woman beside us opened up her bag and handed her young (as in, will touch everything with dirty hands, young) children peanut butter sandwiches. Surrounded by hundreds of children, when peanuts are such a common deadly allergy! I had my kids move to the other side of the tractor and told them not to touch anything...
Pip fruit, especially apples. Do you know how many things have fructose in them? You know fructose is made 90% of the time from apples? I ask for people to check, they wave it aside, it's an impossible allergy. No it's not! I make all my food from scratch because I can't trust anything
I feel this so much. I am celiac and ppl are constantly "glutening" me. It's to the point that I carry gluten dogesting enzymes with me wherever I go, and even then I will be down for the next 24 hours with a raging migraine and lightheadedness. gluten affects my brain instead of my digestive system. I have nearly blacked out multiple times. It's terrifying to eat at restaurants now. I pretty much just eat at home. My mom has accidentally got me a few times, but it really was an accident on her part. The last time I tried to eat at a local restaurant (supposedly GF friendly), the waitress asked if I was ok with a regular baguette on my plate. Like, no, you raging imbecile, I am not. All I can say is thank God for digestive enzymes because I am legitimately concerned that wheat can potentially put me in a coma.
I'm not sure if this counts but I found out I can't eat spicy foods when I was 13 after I projectile vomitted while being sang at for my birthday after eating spicy fried rice. I also am not allowed alcoholic beverages and coffee since both has a negative effect if mixed with a medication I take, alcohol can put me on a coma while coffee makes me palpitate so bad.
My sister and I are both allergic to all alliums (garlics, onions, etc.), and for either of us to eat them means at least 30 hours of pain, misery, and having to stay home because there isn't a bathroom close enough if we're out of the house. My former MIL never believed I was allergic to both garlic and onions, and would put both of them into many of the dishes she cooked. It got to where, when she and FIL invited us to dinner, I'd just drink coffee, eat dinner rolls/biscuits, and have dessert because I couldn't trust her at all. Now I rarely eat out because I know perfectly well that the same grill they're cooking my steak (hamburger, eggs, etc.) on also cooked onions just a little while earlier, and I can't risk it.
I've worked in food-service for many years. And yes, there are times when we think someone is lying about a food allergy. BUT even so, we always do our best to prepare said food safely (changing gloves, etc), and we always warn people "We cannot rule out that there might be traces" of that allergen in their food. Most of the time they're fine with that. Even if we think someone is lying, there's no way to know for sure, and that is simply too big a chance to take. So we might talk about it among ourselves. But we still respect the customer's order.
I'm an alcoholic (sober for 13 years). Thanksgiving/Christmas time gets my antennae up. Have to ask frequently if there is alcohol in everything celebratory. You just never know.
A friend of mine can't have any alcohol due to his medication. If he has any he throws up A LOT and is basically out of order for a day or two. We want to a party recently and some of our friends friends thought it be funny to give him drink promising it's a mocktail. He only had one sip when he noticed the taste of vodka. He spent the rest of the night throwing up and not being able to go into work the next day because his whole body hurt - ITS NOT FUNNY
I had a dysfunctional liver for years, so I had to avoid a lot of foods and alcohol. The pressure people put on me to drink was horrible. I have so much admiration for and sympathy with recovering alcoholics.
i cannot eat turkey meat it makes me vomit i tried several times. i wasnt tested or anything and i dont understand why every other meat is fine for me. luckily in my country it is not the most common meat, you have chicken, pork or beef more often. but on an occasion when turkey meat was served and I didnt want to eat it a "friend" rolled her eyes with "you still have some problem". like wtf i said it makes me feel sick i ate it for not to be hungry and was sick later. luckily didnt vomit that time, but i didnt eat much. that was the last time i had turkey. she is not my friend anymore, not only because of this
I've a friend with coeliac disease who was very sick after eating a Gluten Free chocolate cake in a cafe. When she went back to say she'd been sick from it and didn't think it had been gluten free, the owner said it wasn't GF, but it sold better if they said it was.
I absolutely have no intention of deliberately serving someone with an allergy or intolerance the foods that they will react to. But I do think a majority of these complaints revolved around fast food and group meal events. There comes a point where you need to accept you cannot trust certain dining arrangements unless you provide your own food. And I know that sounds harsh, but if I'm cooking to feed 30 people, I won't alter my recipe for you. And requesting restaurants alter their kitchen setup is unrealistic. Sure, onions off a burger or transparency about ingredients I fully support, bit I can't remake multiple dishes to avoid a seasoning
It's amazing how few people take my wife's Latex allergy seriously.
I didn't find out about my food allergies until I was 32, when my food-allergic daughter was 17 months old and had a reaction to peanut (her first time). She'd had other reactions to food and I was done guessing. I took her to a board-certified allergist who provided me with her laundry list of allergies. About a month later, I broke out in hives from my head to my toes about 4 times a year, and it clicked - I went to the allergist and got my own list. Some of our allergies overlap (eg milk and eggs), some don't, but suffice it to say we don't eat out and convenience food is not an option.
I once got really sick so I was prescribed some penicillin, i started to feel better then I got big rashes all over and had headaches. turns out im allergic to penicillin
I have an insanely severe allergy to tree nuts, which is all the nut’s except peanuts (they are legumes) and coconuts (not actually nuts). And almost all my allergic reactions have been someone not knowing if there are nuts in a food and telling me there isn’t! And then when within ten minutes when my mouth and throat start to itch and taste weirdly metallic, so I ask again and they go actually I’m not sure let me check with xyz, and by the time they come back, I’m trying to keep breathing while giving myself the epinephrine injection while also calling 911! And funfact: epinephrine makes your heart beat much faster, so if someone takes theirs then passes out, call 911 because they need to be treated and have their heart rate monitored.
I'm also allergic to tree nuts, and they're surprisingly difficult to avoid.
Load More Replies... Meanwhile I once offered some cookies to my coworker that I just bought on my launch break, he took one, realised they were coconut (he assumed they were vanilla, I did not think to go into details about flavouring, honest mistake on both part), and he just sat there with a very funny expression, not wanting to be rude and spit it out but really hating the taste. It was not any sort of allergies, he simply hates coconut flavour with a passion. I still felt bad for a long time for another accidentally "forcing him" to eat something he hates. I would never even think of putting stuff in someone's food on purpose who told me - for whatever reason - they didn't want to eat x, y or z.
The only MILDLY similar thing I ever do is offering experimental food to my partner without telling him what's in them. It's just to see if he can taste the chocolate cream was made from zucchini etc. I know he's not allergic, he knows it's something weird, and we both know there isn't anything in there he would specifically not want to eat. We trust each other and it's just a game. But I won't hide olives in anything when I know he hates them.
Load More Replies... The only thing that I saw that I disagreed with was the "of you want pepper you can add it later" in the beginning. When you add spices effects the flavor. I'd much rather make two versions of the dish. But i love to cook and making multiple dishes so everyone can enjoy is a good time for me
Pepper does little to enhance the flavor of the ingredients and can very easily be completely omitted in any dish.
Load More Replies... If you are gluten intolerant or suffer from celiac or colitis, or any gluten-based reaction, avoid any product with undeclared dextrose. It is often sourced from gluten products.
No. Just no. If someone mentions that they have an allergy or sensitivity to a food or other substance, take it as a fact. I am allergic to many perfumes, colognes, air fresheners, beauty products and other chemicals. I have a fantastic rash, swelling and respiratory issue that comes with it. This is not a joke nor something to be trifled with. Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners trigger a migraine for me too. Not fun.
It's not food, but I have a penicillin allergy. I found out when I ended up in hospital for 19 days and had to be on dialysis because my kidneys shut down. My nephrologist told me I can't have any beta lactam antibiotics at all, ever. TWICE I've had doctors prescribe me antibiotics and I've asked them if it's in that family and they've said no and given me the prescription paper, but when I ask again at the pharmacy desk it turns out it is, and the doctor has to redo the prescription for an antibiotic that WON'T kill me. I get that a lot of people think they're allergic to penicillin who aren't actually (apparently it's really common to think you are when you aren't) but geez guys, even the allergist wasn't willing to mess around with that strong of a reaction on the table. You really could have killed me.
My dad is deathly allergic to rosemary. If he eats anything with rosemary in it he goes into anaphylaxis like a peanut allergy. My mom's family is fully aware of this. Well, couple years ago, we went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving, and everything they made had rosemary in it. My dad couldn't eat any of it. I should also mention me and my dad are the outcasts of the family because we're "dirty city people" so it was absolutely intentional.
im allergic to shellfish and the SMELL of fish. if ur wondering how thats possible the smell of fish is a fish protein in the air. im allergic to that. weirdly enough i can eat it fine but only salmon and cod any other kind ill get the same reaction i do as wen there is a fishy smell. anyways we called up a restaurant my aunt wanted to go to for her 50th bday. it was a steak and seafood place. we asked if it had a fishy smell bc i had an allergy to the smell and they said no. we get there and it does smell like fish. my parents and everyone else in my family demanded to see the manager. wen they came out my family told them about the call and the manager said that he never heard of an allergy to the smell of fish and as i was walking out to get fresh air i had a terrible reaction. ambulance and police came and my parents explained to the emts wat happened a cop overheard her and arrested the manager for endangering my life. the restaurant shut down after awhile bc it ended up on the local news and ppl stopped going there. wen u live in a town where basically everyone knows each other the last thing u should do is endanger someones life. not only will u get arrested but u will also put all the ppl u worked with in a now unemployed situation. we found out later that even if it didnt smell i wouldve had a reaction bc their fried shrimp and french fries were fried in the same oil. either way theyd b in trouble. how did we find out a girl who had a shellfish allergy but loved fish wen there and got fries with her baked cod filets. she mentioned the allergy too. her situation was also on the news and thats wen their business really tanked. they lost half after me and then the rest after her. ud think a new manager would fix the situation but nope. the cooks ignored both waiter and new manager. ur probably wondering y my aunt would chose a seafood restaurant in the first place knowing everyone including me would b there. well we did tell her anywhere she wanted and it was her 50th bday and any milestone bday gets a celebration in my family. we took the precautions and called but they were just rude and ignored it all.
My husband is vegan. I've lost track of how many times his mom will pour her extra dipping sauce into his cup of sauce, even though she had been dipping chicken in hers. She thought she was being nice by giving him more sauce /sigh. She's got celiac and is very limited in the restaurants she can eat at, so finding ones for her that also has food for my husband is challenging. Especially as he's allergic to most things that go in salads, and no longer eats a salad we didn't make ourselves.
I react to fragrance of any kind and chemicals( have gotten chemical burns from fabric softener). Have been told there's nothing work can do to make people not wear fragrance at work. Done people think it's funny or pull the but it smells good or wouldn't you rather smell this than whatever? It's always fun to get vertigo and be sick for days because whoops! "I just put on scented lotion but it barely smells". But according to my Dr my body just acts like it's dying, I'll survive.
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If I develop a deadly allergy, I won’t tell anyone, to avoid stuff like this. I would not trust anyone’s word if what they consider a white lie could kill me. I have a certain phobia and have never told anyone to avoid some joker getting word of it and trying to be funny. It’s not even a dangerous thing. Don’t tell people your kryptonite
Depending on maturity of your friends and acquaintances, you could have a valid point.
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