*snerk*

Or, and this is crazy I know, the cheese girl HEARD the customer wrong or MISUNDERSTOOD the question. There is nothing worse than pretentious, marginally informed specialty store clerks. I remember my search for no added sulfite wine at a wine merchant in a reasonably sized city. This was pre-smartphone and I had to…

Well to be fair, distillation naturally removes gluten based on the heating and evaporation process. So Absolut (et al) are just scamming people by claiming to be GF as though other distilled liquors are not.

I decided to look up what seems like a ridiculous condition. It seems there is a calcium *intolerance* but it's kind of hard to have an actual *allergy* seeing as your entire body hangs off of a thing made up of tons of calcium. You also have calcium in your blood and calcium is needed to make muscles do stuff…

I have a friend who used dislike drinking water because she said it tasted like "mouth."

When I was in grad school studying to be a librarian, we took a class where we would have to trace a question from absurdity to completion (finding the necessary information). I'm starting to think that lots of these customers and some of the servers would probably benefit from such a class. It's come crazy to me that…

Chocolate challah is a thing that exists:

Casein allergy is a milk allergy. When you're allergic to milk, the allergy is actually to the casein. But no one knows what the fuck casein is, so people just say milk allergy. Which I'm pretty sure is what she would have said if she was actually allergic to casein.

This. I developed a brief gluten intolerance a few years ago (why? beats me) and my co-workers knew about it.

I think the posters who came up with casein are probably on the right track. You can be genuinely allergic to that protein, as in, at risk of anaphylaxis.

And it's rice, potato, or soy-based. But if you're truly allergic to casein, you know from bitter experience that you need to be very specific about what your cheese is made from, and you also know that you have to be very sure that whatever instruments are used to slice it haven't been used on mammal-milk cheeses. …

And how did her companion not look at her and "What the hell are you talking about?"

Don't even mention the word "crunchy" - it riles up my glutens something fierce!

I'd bet dairy allergy.

Don't even mention the word "crunchy" - it riles up my glutens something fierce! I assumed she meant she is lactose intolerant but got that mixed up in her addled, calcium-deficient brain.

Imagine the aneurysm he'd have if he ever saw pumpernickel.

That's gotta be the weirdest "allergy" yet. Even including red, and the great crunchy vs. crispy debacle. I'm pretty sure you literally can't LIVE without calcium. We don't need tons of it, but we've gotta have some...

Um, also, to all of the people claiming that being an introvert is abusive, you can fucking stuff it. If not wanting to socialize is abusive, so is forcing someone to socialize when they really just can't. There's a reason why introverts consider extroverts blood-suckers. You're exhausting us. That shit induces mental…

My personal take on the questions:

For letter writer 3: I get this way a lot as well. The reason I act like that is because I get so tired of dealing with people and it just spills over into my home life and it helps (me, at least) to just not talk. If I don't talk to someone, they can't talk to me and my mind can sort of reset back to "ready to deal…