While laws can vary by area, this behaviour ABSOLUTELY constitutes assault most places if not everywhere and should be prosecuted as such. From Cornell law school:

YEP. As a sufferer of a palate limited by autism, I cannot imagine that sort of behaviour from a mom who knew she was dealing with disabled kids. After 13 years, she’d have to have a routine down. Feed the kids beforehand, talk to the bride and groom about her kids’ needs, bring their own food, anything. This just…

This was me and my sister too! Anything that one person in the family hated, another one loved. My parents did very little to cater to anyone’s pickiness [bless them] so we would always work it out amongst ourselves. My sister got all my celery and I got all her mushrooms. Mom got dad’s sprouts and he got her…

This is actually some of the best advice I’ve heard in a long while. A side effect of my autism has always been a limited number of foods I consider “safe,” and those are the only things I can eat on bad days. My desire to not impose my pickiness on others feels incredibly limiting sometimes. I love the idea of trying…

HA! I’m the opposite! I hate vegetables but can stomach even gross ones if they’re cooked, but on the extremely short list of veggies I love, broccoli and brussels sprouts top the list.

I can actually combine this AND movie theatres. Back when I was a tiny wee one, my parents had promised to take me to the theatre to see Stuart Little for my birthday. Unfortunately, I had a doozy of a stomach flu when the day came. I was sobbing about missing the movie, absolutely inconsolable, when my dad came out…

I want to live somewhere with 50c avocados. They can run as high as $3 here, though more commonly $1-1.50.

Cashew cheese is actually /the shit/ as far as doing an incredibly good job for the dairy-free crowd at imitating the cheesy creamy goodness one might find in dishes like queso or macaroni and cheese. In the right recipe, I’ve been fooled by it. It ain’t cheese, but in a dish where the cheese is more of a gooey…

This is actually a concern for people with Celiac disease, especially children who put everything in their mouths. Even a minute amount of ingested gluten can cause pretty debilitating symptoms, so it’s not unreasonable for sufferers to want to avoid putting products containing gluten around their hands or face. One…

Actually, Common Core standards were designed pretty specifically to PREVENT students from making mistakes like that, the goal being to help them actually understand numbers instead of just memorizing arithmetical formulae that lend themselves to un-caught mistakes..

I’ve been noticing a glut of news stories lately affirming that pigs are smart, self-aware, emotional, loving, etc. That they have the traits people associate with their pets, not their food, basically. I think as those facts become more and more common knowledge people are having a harder time justifying eating…

I see this argument about breast milk circulating through vegan communities every now and then too. It usually comes down to a matter of consent—a human woman can consent to using her body to feed her baby but a cow can’t consent to using her body to feed a person. I think that line of reasoning applies to the BJ…

Well, pretty explicitly because it doesn’t come from animals? I can only speak for myself here, but as someone trying not to eat meat, it comes from a concern about the ethics of animal rights, not an issue with meat. I won’t deny that meat is damn tasty, and if I can get the delicious flavour and utility without the…

We really ought to put together an ace superhero/villain team. The things we could do with that invisibility...

Do you happen to work at the sugarhouse location? That’s my home store and I’ve never had anything but stellar service there.