People like me with real fucking allergy to something.
Look, if you claim to be allergic to peas, and they sneak some pureed peas into say brownies, which you eat with evident ease and no reactions to, then obviously you were lying about being allergic. If more people lie about being allergic when they are not, then shit like what happened to me. I got deliberately fed hidden mushrooms, which sent me into shock and ended up with a very expensive ride in an ambulance and visit to the ER. People will gleefully feed people who say they are allergic to something that exact item hidden in your food with every expectation of being able to jump up and down taunting you about having eaten exactly what you said you were allergic to and you had no bad reaction and are a liar!!!11!!eleventy!!1! If I had not had epipens with me, I would have fucking died because of shit like this.
So in your opinion I can turn down food because
1)a medical reason
2)a religious reason
3)an ethical reason
Why not because of “a personal reason” (ie I don’t like it).
What if I said
1)Try just a little, I’m sure your allergies won’t flare up
2)Your God won’t mind if you’re just being a polite guest
3)the cow is already dead, might as well have a few bites, right?
What gives you the right to say that my reason is any less valid than the reasons you gave.
Basically, what you’re saying is that the arbitrary reasons you picked out are the right reasons for being able to turn down food and that my reason is silly.
A friend of mine is one of those people that ends up in the ER once or twice a year because of food allergies. She carries an epipen but she has a pacemaker so if she uses the pen she needs to go have the ER people or cardio people deal with everything going haywire.
Anyways, one of the things she does whenever she’s out with new people, because she’s so ridiculously allergic to foods is to pull out her epipen and say “everyone, here’s my epipen, if something happens to me, it’s right here in this pocket of my purse.”
If you’re with a group that you’re worried about it might be worth putting on a little show like that 'yeah guys, I’m allergic to this and that, in fact, here’s my epipen, I carry it with me all the time just in case I even accidentally get a mushroom in my food at a restaurant or something".
As I said, I am not as far as I know, allergic to aniseed; however if someone sneaks that stuff into anything I consume, it won’t be unnoticed and the reactions will be messy. No-one should force any food a person rejects, for any reason.
But you’re just acting like a child, you should at least have a bite of my aniseed brownies before subtly hiding the rest in your napkin, it’s only proper.
As someone who gags at a lot of foods (mainly vegetables), no, you shouldn’t be able to say you’re allergic to something just because it makes you gag. Heck, unless it’s something that will kill you if you eat it, you probably should just shut up about it to anyone but those actually serving/preparing your food.
edit:But by no means should anyone over 12 feel obligated to eat something they don’t want to no matter the reason. under 12 you’re still under “mom can force you” rules
It’s become a sort of hipster thing to claim to be a supertaster, but having an explanation for my weird food dislikes is such a relief after all these decades, I can’t help talking about it at every opportunity.
Anyway, a supertaster is someone who has extra-sensitivity to bitter and sweet foods, though it varies for each.
Not at all. I don’t like the taste of alcohol, even projectile vomited on the priest during my first communion because of it, and therefore just told people that I’m allergic to alcohol for quite a while, at least through the first couple of years of college.
Seriously? that makes no sense, because it seems like hipsters are also the driving force behind hot peppers in everything, and as a scientifically verified supertaster (you can be given paper with chemicals on it, and it will either taste bitter, or just taste like paper, to check for one kind of tasting ability), and generally supertasters are really sensitive to capsaicinoids (the compounds that make peppers hot). To me, for example, peppers, like jalapenos, just make my mouth burn. They don’t taste like anything, because my mouth is so overwhelmed with the burning sensation.
All supertasters I know personally have the same problem.
It would seem polite society shouldn’t require anyone to get over their aversion to anything. An awkward performance of prevarication such as you prescribe would leave a less tasteful flavor in my mouth.
Supertaster, but I happen to like the extremes of bitter and salty and sour [not so much sweet] I really really really hate the peppers in everything movement because bell peppers taste like ass, and anything hotter tends to leave my mouth burning so badly I then have to tank up on about half a gallon of milk trying to drown out the burn. I also detested the trend to dump handsfull of cilantro on and in everything, I could carry around a box of soap flakes and add my own contamination to food if I really wanted everything to taste soapy.
And if someone presses for detail as to why you can’t, you respond “Why on earth would you need to know that?”
As to the OP - I’m not really sure… of course the word ‘allergic’ is bandied around a bit.
Sometimes it might just be easiest to say (despite it being a lie) that you’re allergic to something you absolutely don’t want to eat, but expect to be pressed on.
But then again, there are assholes out there who don’t believe people when they talk about their genuine allergies - and lying about something that is a preference may reinforce their idiocy.
This. I have an autoimmune disorder and am allergic to quite a few different things. People never believe me if I say I’m allergic to something and quite frequently sneak something in as a test. It’s a totally despicable thing to do.
The assholes who “test” your allergy are prepared to risk your life to catch you out in a fib. Do you honestly believe they’ll change their behaviour if people stop telling them they have a food allergy to make them back off?
I like bitter food that has been cooked, but raw bitter food (like raw broccoli) is too much for me. I like strong tea, but it has to have a little sugar in it (not a lot-- that hummingbird food they drink in the south makes me scratch my head). I also like cream and sugar in coffee, although I’m not always in the mood for coffee. I know people who swill it all day long, and I couldn’t do that. I like salt on food, but it only takes a little for me to be able to taste it, and the new fad of salting sweet things (like hot chocolate) doesn’t appeal to me at all. It’s just too much flavor.
I hate cilantro with the fire of a thousand suns. It tastes like something in between dish soap and dirt. I used to like Mexican restaurants, but lately, it seems that everything has hot peppers, cilantro, or both, liberally.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who just feels burn from peppers. There’s no flavor, just burn. I’m really getting tired of finding them in unexpected places, like pizza places that add them to the regular tomato sauce, or all-you-can-eat places that put them in the macaroni and cheese.
Well, if they hadn’t caught people eating things they claimed to be allergic to in previous instances, they wouldn’t think other people are lying. My brother has an irrational hatred of tomatoes, except he eats ketchup, and pizza with tomato sauce. He’s 43, and my mother actually cooks special versions of things because of his tomato phobia. When he was a kid, he used to tell people he was allergic to tomatoes so he wouldn’t be expected to eat them, then he’d go and eat ketchup, or pizza, so it was obvious he wasn’t allergic. He’s wised up to the point that he doesn’t tell people he’s allergic anymore, but he can still be a real baby about being served something with tomatoes in it.
I do not like onions. I don’t like the taste of raw or cooked onions, I do not like the crunchy texture, I do not like onions. If, in polite company, I am presented with a food containing onions, I have two choices: don’t eat it, or swallow it whole without tasting or chewing. Mom used to chop them up really small so I wouldn’t know they were there. I’d much rather she left them BIG so I could pick them out.
Most recently, I placed a telephone order for a couple of Philly Cheesesteaks for my husband & myself. His comes with onions. Mine gets requested “with no onions anywhere near it.” They always ask if I’m allergic, because that means cleaning the grill completely before making my sandwich. Definitely not necessary, but it’s nice that they ask.
Edited to add: I LURVES me some garlic. I know they’re botanically related, onions & garlic, but onions are gross & garlic is heavenly.
Yup. If they are assholes enough to ‘test’ other peoples’ claimed allergies, then I really don’t see how being honest about really disliking something is going to fix them.
