Dublin café VS. the Gluten Free by choice

Synode wrote: »

Complete horse ****.

Yeah, it's nonsense.

Sure I bought many a many a book on wheat intolerance back in the 90's after my coeliac diagnosis (mentioned Terrance Stamp's Wheat free cookbook on the other thread recently) and that was long before the Internet was available to all and sundry.

NiallBoo wrote: »

what kind of gravy? Home-made from scratch with flour or something using bisto? Pretty sure the latter would be gluten/wheat free.

Standard gravy isn't but most of the main brands do a GF line.

Have seen stuff by this place before posted online. Every single time it reads: "small café seeks publicity, puts edgy and humourless shitpost on social media to generate interest".

I'm curious as to if people would cool their heels if it was called "gluten sensitivity" or something instead? Maybe "gluten intolerance" is considered to sound too medicky?

While the plural of anecdote is not data, there seems to be enough evidence out there to suggest that there is a fairly large minority population who don't do well on gluten (or perhaps wheat for a similar reason). There's a list of foods that disagree to some extent or another with various people depending on something as small as a specific gene setup on one particular loci. Red wine, chocolate for those who tend to get migraines, milk for the lactose intolerant (a far more documented issue with up to 99% intolerance in regions of sub-Saharan Africa and China where there isn't a history of drinking cow's milk), - I once tried to replace milk in my diet with rice milk. Once. Never again. Horrible reaction that I see no reason to court again merely because some busy-bodies think that they know my body better than I do! :pac: You don't have to live with the results!

People react differently to different set-ups of nutrients. Sure, rarely are they bad enough to make it a case of "this food will kill you" (obvious exceptions being foods known to cause anaphalaxis in unfortunate victims), but otherwise, it's probably best that everyone keep their noses out of other peoples' business and lay off the judging when someone who avoids gluten eats it occasionally (sometimes one just can't be arsed and live in vague hope that it won't have an effect this time or with a small dose - again, this discounts people who could actually -die- from eating X!). I ate too much gluten this weekend and my stomach is in a state of rumbling discontent. Nothing that's going to harm me particularly, but it's unpleasant. I'm trying to steer a bit clear of it, but gluten-free food is expensive. But honestly, I've spent most of my life in a vague state of awareness that my stomach is grumpy, but when it's continuous, one doesn't really think of it as not being normal.

If I want to try to avoid that situation (and including being allowed to fail at it, thanks!), that's no-one's business but my own (and my partner's since he does the majority of the cooking). I don't think that it's at the same level of importance as coeliac disease or anaphilaxis, but nor do I reckon that I should have to eat the dratted stuff just because other people think it's a craze.

oh for ****s sake , this dropkick has made the news in Australia....talk about enabling his rubbish....

brandnewaward wrote: »

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32542153/the-white-moose-cafe-paul-stenson-takes-aim-at-gluten-free-epidemic/#page1

('Doctor's note required': Irish cafe owner takes aim at 'gluten-free fad'

Krystal Johnson - Yahoo7 News on September 6, 2016, 10:15 am )

spose she won't be near any real news for a bit

An over-zealous, young Yahoo 7 journalist who ignored publishing protocols and directly published an article online, causing a murder trial to be aborted, could now face contempt of court charges.

Sydney-based reporter Krystal Johnson published the article on the first week of the Supreme Court murder trial, which contained information that had not been presented to the jury.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/yahoo-7-journalist-krystal-johnson-faces-contempt-of-court-charges-20160830-gr49i2.html

the dudes a douche,

if you sell gluten free food who cares who orders it.

if he had such a problemt hen dont sell it.

im as gluten free as i can be... ive crohns and its one of the things that its recommended i avoid, but i can tolerate it to a certain degree ie i can have a normal white bread sandwhich but couldnt have pasta then for dinner...

if im out for dinner and the restaurant has a gluten free option (lets say gluten free pizza base over a regular one) i will normally pick that and happily pay the extra.

the guy is a judgemental asshole doing it all for publicity, if his cafe was any good he wouldnt have to pull **** stunts like that.