Guinness Dilemma

Kettleson · 15-07-2014 07:11PM #1

I've just found out that I have a high level gluten intolerance, and have been advised that I should never again drink Guinness.

It's just like breaking up with your first love, in the knowledge that you will see them every day for the rest of your life, yet knowing that you will never be able to make love.

It's a bit sad, and apart from the pain of the knowledge of eternal separation, the flip side is that I feel incredibly well after years of dull and misty heads and stomach cramps etc.

My dilemma is that I have 5 cans of Guinness in the fridge and don't quite know what to do with them.

I was thinking about putting them on Adverts.ie as a Free Item but that might attract under age drinkers and I'd have to ask for ID etc. Suggestions welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kEzyAYVGI

wretcheddomain · 15-07-2014 07:13PM

Upon seeing the thread title, thought it was a new brand of Guinness...devastated after reading that first post; and not for the interest of the user.

Sparks43 · 15-07-2014 07:16PM

Drink them savor them then look into glutenfree stout

Kettleson · 15-07-2014 07:16PM

I'm willing to post them to Farmleigh House if it softens your disappointment.

Frosty McSnowballs · 15-07-2014 07:17PM

Fcuk them in the bin, Guinness is ****e.

catallus · 15-07-2014 07:18PM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Fcuk them in the bin, Guinness is ****e.

SACRILEGE!!!!

I am pie · 15-07-2014 07:18PM

Drink them and go to a boardsie wedding. Let nature take it's course.

Seems to be the done thing.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-07-2014 07:21PM

Look for a second opinion. You can't be expected to just stop drinking Guinness, it's not on.

Arthur Beesley · 15-07-2014 07:23PM

OP, does Guinness give you the trots?

Kettleson · 15-07-2014 07:24PM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Drink them savor them then look into glutenfree stout

No seriously, its just not worth it. I wouldn't be able to function for the next 24 hours. But very willing to try out gluten free stouts if anyone can make recommendations.

On the serious side, I think I've been wheat/gluten intolerant for years without knowing, I feel tremendous now.

So if anyone is suffering from feeling crap, tired, misty head etc after eating pasta and the like, its worth considering if you have a wheat/gluten intolerance.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 15-07-2014 07:27PM

Is there something wrong with just keeping them in the fridge for when visitors call over

what am I missing? Is it that you want to do something special with the last cans of it you ever bought for yourself? Ever? For the rest of your life? Forever? (Not to rub it in or anything)

Sky King · 15-07-2014 07:31PM

Drink em OP. Then drink another 5 on top of them.

You don't have to give up drinking Guinness, just drink enough every time so that you don't notice the intolerance symptoms due to the manky hangover.

Ihatecuddles · 15-07-2014 07:36PM

I am pie wrote: »

Drink them and go to a boardsie wedding. Let nature take it's course.

Seems to be the done thing.

It's the norm now is it??

Kettleson · 15-07-2014 07:37PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

OP, does Guinness give you the trots?

Anything with gluten, wheat, cereal oats, gave me dodgy stomach Mr Beesley.

Apparently there was (allegedly) some genetic modification of wheat grain circa the 1970s, so that it grew taller and could be harvested easier, and that's where the nastiness lies. But I obviously cannot confirm that as fact.

Strangely enough, I have a friend called Arthur, but he's nobility of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLfbZixnaY

Birneybau · 15-07-2014 07:37PM

Give them to a homeless person. Karma dude.

Awkward Badger · 15-07-2014 07:38PM

Pour them down the sink.

Frosty McSnowballs · 15-07-2014 07:38PM

Maybe you are allergic to the dash of blackcurrant that you are adding to it!

Fancy bastard with your cocktails!

Frosty McSnowballs · 15-07-2014 07:39PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Give them to a homeless person. Karma dude.

Jesus, they've enough problems!

I am pie · 15-07-2014 07:40PM

mauzo! wrote: »

It's the norm now is it??

Yes. The norm. Absolutely.

keep up.

Dave0301 · 15-07-2014 07:41PM

Open them all and pour every last drop down the sink, all whilst weeping tears of bitter regret that you and your true first love shall never be together again.

Gone Drinking · 15-07-2014 07:44PM

Guinness and steak pie:

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/92/the-absolute-best-steak-and-guinness--pie.aspx

Birneybau · 15-07-2014 07:44PM

Wash your hair with them.

Birneybau · 15-07-2014 07:44PM

Gone Drinking wrote: »

Guinness and steak pie:

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/92/the-absolute-best-steak-and-guinness--pie.aspx

Yeah, that'd work...

Gone Drinking · 15-07-2014 07:49PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Yeah, that'd work...

Says it serves 6 and its 1 can needed per pie. If he's been drinking Guinness for this long after years of suffering, I'm sure you'll be grand after a slice of pie.

Or he could just always give the pie to his family or whatever, rather than eat it himself.

tony 2 tone · 15-07-2014 08:19PM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Upon seeing the thread title, thought it was a new brand of Guinness...devastated after reading that first post; and not for the interest of the user.

I can see the ads now, "Guinness Dilemma, Are you gonna puke or get the ****s the next morning? dendenDEN"

Wacker The Attacker · 15-07-2014 08:27PM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Jesus, they've enough problems!

this will solve one of them

Wacker The Attacker · 15-07-2014 08:28PM

Have sex with them

fleet_admiral · 15-07-2014 08:32PM

Drink them, then eat an indian straight away afterwards. It will be out of you in no time, trust me im speaking from experience, I regularly have a rake of guinness followed by a vindaloo/sometimes phall. You could set your clock by me

donegal__road · 15-07-2014 08:32PM

here you go OP.. I know its not Guinness but its better than nothing.

kowloon · 15-07-2014 09:42PM

mauzo! wrote: »

It's the norm now is it??

You must have missed it! There was this wedding and this guy... oh, eh, forget I said anything. My sincerest apologies.

Calibos · 15-07-2014 09:47PM

Were you diagnosed by a Doctor with Coeliac disease or gluten sensitivity, or by the lady behind the counter in the herbal alt med healthfood shop??

Gluten Intolerance is merely the latest fad excuse and diet that people latch onto to explain some of their health issues.

ie. If your GP told you to lay off the gluten then its no Guinness for you. If it was the lady in the health food shop or your girlfriends sister who is a reflexologist homeopath acupuncturist woo merchant who diagnosed your gluten intolerance than imbibe that Guinness without fear my friend.

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