Gerrymandering is a bipartisan issue.

Let’s see how well California does after it secedes from where they get all their water.

Please take a look at California’s balance sheet and get back to me about how well off they are. They are 443B in debt, and begging for fed for money as it is.. Not to mention the impending water crisis we will have in the 21st century will buckle California to its knees.. also worth mentioning an eventual natural…

And what exactly would the defense budget be for the People’s Republic Of California? And the troops and hardware come from where, again?

The easiest reason is that their primary water sources run through states that wouldn’t secede. If they opted to say fuck the US, the US could easily say fuck California. Their entire agriculture industry is unnatural in the sense that they couldn’t grow things without substantial water resources which they don’t…

For the record, thyroid issues can and do lead to psychotic-appearing behavior- doctors have known about the link to thyroid dysfunction and hallucinations/disordered behavior since 1888. (I get why the server thought Meth, but knowing is half the battle- and binge eating is far more likely to be associated with…

For what it is worth, this guy is a lawyer.

There has been only one time I can remember where I literally wanted to strangle a parent and whip a child. It was in the early 2000’s and I was on vacation in Orlando and stopped in at a Planet Hollywood. At the table next to me, this 5 or 6 year old was literally screaming at the top of his lungs, throwing food at…

I have two kids, and I also have social anxiety that can make me just not want to go out with them, like ever. My kids are on the Autism spectrum, which means that, not only are they dicks the way regular kids are dicks, but that they multiply that by Dr. Sheldon Cooper levels of social awkwardness and cluelessness.…

I despise peppers, hate them, the taste permeates everything it touches and makes me gag. That being said when I ask for them to be removed from things I say “I just really hate them and won’t like the food at all if it has peppers” because I do not wish to cheapen allergies by pretending I have one.

As a cook, I take allergies Extremely seriously. I know ppl that have life threatening allergies (who doesn’t) and i really don’t want anyone to get sick. So I preface this reply with that....

Once grabbed takeout potato salad on a break from a cafe. Halfway through I bit into a piece of something unfamiliar...tuna. I’m deathly allergic to everything that lives under water.

If a common food could kill me, why am I trusting complete strangers to feed me? “Sir, I don’t know you but can you shoot this apple off my head with an arrow?”

where did i suggest otherwise? however those who do indeed fake allergies seem to have no idea, or give no fucks, about the hoops the kitchen has to jump through to accommodate them. it’s selfish and a big fat time-waster.

I worked restaurant, and here’s what I was taught: if someone makes a reasonable request about taking out an ingredient, it’s not your job to make life difficult. Just listen. Accommodate the request if you can, or explain why you can’t. Offer an alternative. Try to be gracious.

While I agree with your overall point, I think there is a distinction between “not liking” and “allergy” as far as the kitchen is concerned. I always take any special diet requests very seriously. If someone “doesn’t like tomatoes” that means not putting tomato ingredients in their food. If they’re “allergic to…

I wish that people would realize that not all food allergies result in dramatic symptoms, especially if ingested in small quantities. The tomato lady could have had fatigue, muscle aches, itchy skin, numbness in her mouth, dizziness, mild shortness of breath, nausea, diarrhea, or many other symptoms that the staff…

I was diagnosed with Celiac disease 5 years ago and, at first, no one took me seriously. I remember going to Olive Garden a few months after my diagnosis and biopsy. I told the kitchen staff about my situation and returned to my seat (I was on a date). I was given my meal, and both of us ate. An hour later, I became…

I’ve been glutened maybe 5 times at restaurants in the last couple of years, and some of those times were definitely MY FAULT, not double-checking seasoning or whatever. But a couple times were absolutely not.

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…