Valid, but how many people know exactly how you make a dish? If the ingredient isn’t common or listed, how is one to know.

Valid, but how many people know exactly how you make a dish? If the ingredient isn’t common or listed, how is one to know. I make it my business to watch almost all the food porn shows so that if I have to go out to eat for work, I might know how to avoid making myself miserably ill and following that up with…

This is the dumbest response one can possibly have to the above post. If you are working in food service (and I’m assuming you are), you should really get a different job that would be more to your mental speed. Like, perhaps, a job where someone pays you to smash your face into a wall over and over.

You know what’s worse than serving some dipstick who insists s/he can’t have gluten or raw tomatoes or tree nuts? Killing them with whatever they’re allergic to. Also BEING that person, because food allergies suck so, so bad. Of COURSE people with food allergies are paranoid in restaurants. I can’t believe people with…

You’re right, people unfortunate enough to have food allergies should just be hermits and never go out anywhere ever. Right. Makes total sense.

Why do people who don’t have allergies/dietary restrictions feel the need to play the “what would happen if you ate this” game? i have had two colon resection and there’s a bunch of shit I’m not supposed to eat. I probably won’t die if someone slips a little flour or dairy in my food but too much can be very painful…

Also, like, not all picky people are just being special snowflake adult babies. There are things like OCD where you have a lot of trouble eating a food for various reasons, e.g. texture. Or people with ED’s, or hypochondria. Etc. I don’t like the common characterization of all picky people as assholes. As someone with…

Tbh, it’s not really a problem in restaurants (the pieces of tomato are either large enough to just pick off if they fuck it up, or it’s not something I can order anyway), but if I’m at a cookout or dinner party or whatever, the conversation is always

I went to college with a girl who died from a peanut allergy. She ordered chili and asked if the meat was cooked in peanut oil. The answer was no, so she ate a couple bites and then her throat closed up because the chili was thickened with peanut butter. She died in the car while her friends frantically drove her to…

Yep. It’s weird, though - I have a shellfish allergy, like anaphylaxis throat swelling kind of allergy, and no restaurant has EVER given me the slightest bit of shit about it. I also carry an EpiPen for that.

I love mangoes. My stomach does not love mangoes. A restaurant once failed to honor my “seriously, no mango in this please” request and I ended up projectile vomiting all over everything, in full view of a ton of potential customers.

I had a coworker (who was otherwise an excellent server) get fired because he told someone a dish was nut-free when it actually had a cashew spread on it. We were busy, and he forgot, but it was extremely careless. He didn’t even bother to mention the allergy to the kitchen. I saw her get carted off in an ambulance on…

Thank you for writing this and for sharing this person’s story. I hope this gets mainpaged on every website across the interwebs. My daughter has a serious allergy to tree nuts (as in her throat will swell shut and she could die) and a good fifty percent of the time, when asking the server about the ingredients of a…

Bananas, plantains and avocados, and the sheer number of times some asshole has informed me that “you just don’t like ethnic food” or (the reason I ate for free at On The Border for the entire tenure of the manager that was dating my cousin) “don’t be such a bitchbaby about a little guacamole, it’s not that…

BIG WIG HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER: Let's get Dakota Fanning!

I am honestly, thoroughly perplexed over why so many of my peers - who by all other rights are informed, educated, sensible adults - fawn over everything Allen does despite its lack of integrity or variety. What gives? (It has gone beyond a question of taste at this point, I think...)

Big Wig Hollywood Producer: And it's set on a college campus, right? So we can appeal to young people? Maybe sneak in some of the music they're listening to for the soundtrack?

I have a great idea for a Woody Allen movie. It's about this guy, right, and he seems to get away with molesting his daughter until one day the cops come knocking. It's a drama that ends with the main character dying in jail.

WOODY ALLEN: [leans in]

These Sony Leaks are getting more and more fascinating by the day.