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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs in cheese sauce beset with croutons

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 02:00pm on 17/04/2014
I started noting down where I've eaten out this year, as well as books and gigs and films and stuff. This has the side effect of being a log of how many times they fail to follow through on a proclaimed understanding that I cannot eat gluten or dairy.

So far this year: 15 meals out, -1 creamy risotto, -1 salad with croutons, -1 sorbet on a bed of biscuit crumbs, -1 stealth ingredient (the other three I detected in time to not eat them) = 27% failure rate which is pretty fucking appalling.

I feel bad about making such a fuss every time I eat out, peering suspiciously and double checking everything instead of trusting them to have given me safe food, but with a hit rate like that I'm not going to stop any time soon.

NB Not currently broken from food, despite the userpic, and I have a lovely dairy free Easter egg to look forward to :-)
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posted by [identity profile] saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com at 01:54pm on 17/04/2014
You can make gluten free meatballs with cornbread as long as it was made with olive or some kind of oil, not butter. I like to use leftover polenta.
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posted by [identity profile] jcbemis.livejournal.com at 08:40pm on 17/04/2014
At least gluten and dairy are fairly widely recognized as allergens now; my chief sensitivity is to garlic, which chefs out use a bit of in LOTS of dishes :(
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:14pm on 18/04/2014
And think it's such a small amount of garlic you won't notice the taste, therefore won't complain. Until you get ill.
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posted by [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com at 11:03am on 18/04/2014
Beer festival with us Sunday evening ?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:19pm on 18/04/2014
I'm free, didn't know of any beer festivals, whereabouts is it?
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posted by [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 18/04/2014
Red Lion Histon
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:42pm on 18/04/2014
Okay, I'm no drinker at the moment (especially beer), would you like me to drive? I can do that sort of thing now!
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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 11:09am on 18/04/2014
This sucks completely. It would make me very anxious about eating out, and it must take a fair amount of determination to keep on doing it.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 18/04/2014
T only told me yesterday that M had sent a tub of chocolate mousse which was in the freezer. I shall not need to leave the house to eat for a while!
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posted by [identity profile] sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com at 12:01pm on 18/04/2014
It demonstrates an ignorance of their product and a disregard for their paying customers which should get them blacklisted whether one has food allergies/sensitivities or not. I wouldn't trust their staff not to have stuck their thumbs in the food; they certainly seem to lack any pride in their work.

Name and shame!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:12pm on 18/04/2014
5/17 or 29% now! Happened again at lunch today. I told them my food restrictions, asked after a lamb kebab, was told it would be fine without the flatbread, and it came with a ramekin of suspicious dip which I tasted, asked after, and is made of yoghurt.

Lunch companion suggested I write them a letter. I'm thinking I could write a form letter.
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 03:49pm on 19/04/2014
I know someone had a business card made up with "No MSG" on it in several east asian languages. I suspect that size card because it's easy to get some made cheaply in quantity.

Maybe something that says "No dairy. No gluten" "How much?" "Not even a little. Nope. Nada. None."
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