Why lie about cheese?

[Null Requiem]

If I couldn't have tomato products, I'd be upset.

I used to drink a half gallon of milk in a day or so. It was quite an adjustment to quit drinking milk. Of course, I buy the occasional half gallon of Silk instead, but it's expensive and tastes odd.

... I have to ask here, what exactly is 'Silk'?? I ask because my imagination has gifted me with the lovely image of a bolt of cloth being fed into a blender...

[blas]

Silk is a more expensive brand of lactose-free milk. It comes in regular, light, chocolate, vanilla, almond, and extra calcium and vitamin D regular.

It doesn't break me out the way regular milk does, I'm assuming because it doesn't have all the bacteria and crap that regular milk still contains even after pasteurization. I've read that the hormones from the pregnant cows can cause a person with oily acne prone skin to have even worse skin. I wish I knew that a long time ago.

[Treasure]

silk is soy

[PepperElf]

I think it's the hormones and other means to take the fat out of skim and 1 and 2% milk, because if I drink whole, I'm alright.

I don't know if hormones are normally used to take the fat out of milk but I do know there is hormone-free organic milk out there. Sis reacts badly to hormone-filled milk.

[EricKei]

This is certainly one of things I gotta talk to my doc about...I may have acquired an allergy to shrimp lately (which sucks, given how much I love the stuff). Also, my brother came down with an allergy to mustard one day, after YEARS of quaffing honey-mustard pretzels by the bagful >_< It's basically reversed itself now, tho. Better than that was when he was at a pizza place, and discovered the hard way that he had an allergy to the flour they used for the pizzas...so he wore gloves -- allergy to the powder inside them...he bought some non-powdered gloves for his own use (he was the SM) -- was ALSO allergic to the latex. He just couldn't win. The "pizza joint" ones were all contact allergies, made his skin break out and itch like a mofo, but with no other apparent effects; it just made it physically impossible for him to TOUCH the actual pizzas x.x He could throw toppings on safely if someone else was sliding the dough skin down, tho.

[Setsunaela]

Found out the hard way that I'm allergic to the powder inside gloves.. Company of Noodle had a mix of powdered and powder-free, and I guess I'd happened to use powder-free every time before...
Was prepping feta cheese, breaking it down from the big blocks in the bucket of brine that we get, to small pieces "no larger than a small blueberry" I had to prep enough for the whole day as the night girl couldn't handle the brine smell and it made her sick.. so 45-50 minutes of wearing this one pair of gloves, breaking down all of this feta. I took the gloves off and I swear it felt like I peeled a layer of skin off with them. They were red, slightly swollen, got lots of little red bumps everywhere, they itched, burned, and hurt all at once. Ugh.
New Manager tried to tell me it was impossible to be allergic to the powder, it must be a latex allergy, and fussed at me that I should have known better. sigh.

OnTopic: I saw basically the exact thing when Hubs and I went out to Buffalo Wild Wings the other night. Couple at the table beside us, the lady demands no cheese on her burger, she's "deathly allergic to dairy!!1!1!eleventy!!1" and then proceeds to in the same breath order a basket of wings to share with her dining partner, with "extra extra blue cheese dressing to dip in, it's my favorite!!<3<3" and the guy orders the same burger but with extra cheese.. actually he said "put her cheese on mine" The server walked away rolling her eyes.. When their food came, person set a burger on the table and the woman snatched it over and pulled the top bun off, going 'THIS HAS CHEESE I SAID NO CHEESE YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME!!" and the guy was like "ma'am.. that's HIS burger. Here's yours." handing her another plate...
Made me feel bad for their server.. >.< makes no sense to me

[BlaqueKatt]

Milk (for drinking) is one of my acne triggers. I found this out by not drinking any milk for a week and only getting one or two new pimples versus the usual several.

I think it's the hormones and other means to take the fat out of skim and 1 and 2% milk, because if I drink whole, I'm alright.

But I can have stuff with milk IN it, I just can't drink a glass of milk with a meal.

actually whole milk contains cortisols-skim and 2% don't, and according to one of my co-workers(who is actually a medical doctor at her full time job-lab is part-time), acne is a liver disorder, which would also explain why alcohol is a trigger for you.

[bainsidhe]

A former coworker had a family member that couldn't eat raw tomatoes, but could eat ketchup and most forms of processed tomato. His problem was with the seeds, which would wreak havoc on his insides. Can't remember the details, just that he couldn't eat anything with small seeds (tomatoes, kiwi, strawberries, etc).

[MoonCat]

A former coworker had a family member that couldn't eat raw tomatoes, but could eat ketchup and most forms of processed tomato. His problem was with the seeds, which would wreak havoc on his insides. Can't remember the details, just that he couldn't eat anything with small seeds (tomatoes, kiwi, strawberries, etc).

Diverticultis, I think.

[mharbourgirl]

A former coworker had a family member that couldn't eat raw tomatoes, but could eat ketchup and most forms of processed tomato. His problem was with the seeds, which would wreak havoc on his insides. Can't remember the details, just that he couldn't eat anything with small seeds (tomatoes, kiwi, strawberries, etc).

It could be a high sensitivity to alkaloids. I have that problem, so does the Hubster. As long as I'm careful to take the seeds out of tomatoes, we can eat them raw with no significant issues. Miss a few, and suddenly only having one bathroom becomes a big problem. Tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family, and the seeds are heavy with alkaloids.

Other small seeds, well, it could be diverticulitis, or IBS, or any of the other lovely conditions that the GI tract can develop, since seeds and other fibers are irritants meant to keep things moving along.

Back to the OP, I would like to explain why I am not afraid to claim I'm allergic to something at certain restaurants - because they don't listen when I say I want something left off my food. I've had too many meals where the thing I requested they leave off was put on anyway, left on, sometimes scraped off before it was served but with obvious traces left on the meal. I HAVE to say I'm allergic to tomatoes otherwise they'll just take it back to the kitchen, take off the tomatoes, and bring it back with seeds and goop all over it, which was what I was trying to avoid in the first place. Or a condiment I hate the taste of, say. Sometimes, for example, I'm just not in the mood for mustard. Good luck getting anyone to listen to that. I don't want the mustard scraped off, I want it not to have been there in the FIRST place! I do try to always be nice about it, wait staff don't make the menu and they're not the cooks.

I used to work in restaurants, I was always careful to pay attention to special orders/alterations, so I don't think I'm being a special snowflake in this regard.

[bainsidhe]

I've had too many meals where the thing I requested they leave off was put on anyway, left on, sometimes scraped off before it was served but with obvious traces left on the meal. I HAVE to say I'm allergic to tomatoes otherwise they'll just take it back to the kitchen, take off the tomatoes, and bring it back with seeds and goop all over it, which was what I was trying to avoid in the first place.

This is why I don't mind if a server asks if it's all right for the kitchen to just pick off the offending food. Ask my feedback and I'll be honest with you. I don't like the taste or texture of avacado for example, but I'm not allergic. If the kitchen picks it off, I'm good to go. However if I told them I was allergic, I'd expect the kitchen to take great care in remaking my sandwich.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Why lie about cheese?

Because the cheese is better than the salami and the bologna combined.

[Shalom]

Re silk:

We just discovered that my daughter (19 months) is allergic to whole milk. We'd been using the formula with the broken-down protein, as the other sorts gave her a stomach ache, and every time we tried to switch her off the formula to whole milk, at one year, she was cranky the whole day. As an experiment we decided to switch to Silk (or the store brand, 70¢ cheaper) and presto, no more stomach aches, but we hadn't got an official diagnosis yet. Finally last month we went to an allergist and she did the skin test, and sure enough, milk allergy. She also said that cheese is almost as bad, cooked cheese (as in pizza) might not react as much (no such luck, unfortunately), and "hidden" milk like in cheez-its or similar was probably all right (which we don't buy anyways: not kosher, and I can't stand the smell besides).

You know how hard it is to find non-dairy cheese that doesn't also have casein (milk protein) in it? Only one I've come across yet is Tofutti, and it's awful. Baby seems to like it, though.

[pageantmama]

... I have to ask here, what exactly is 'Silk'?? I ask because my imagination has gifted me with the lovely image of a bolt of cloth being fed into a blender...

Silk is a brand of soy milk. The regular tastes funny but the vanilla flavor is decent. Even in cereal. My daughter is highly allergic to dairy protein, among other things, and it is not just lactose intolerance. If she even touches anything with any milk derivatives like casein or whey she will break out and if she eats or drinks anything, she has to be epipenned because she will start gasping and breaking out in hives. She is 3 and knows mostly what she can and cannot have because there are other foods she cannot eat either. I was so worried when she started daycare and sent her lunch and reminded them every day of her allergies. They finally told me not to worry about it, that she will tell them. They said a boy offered her a donut at snacktime and before they even had to tell her and him no she said, no thank you, it will make me sick. There are only a few foods she can eat but she knows what they are.

[Sliceanddice]

I've had people tell me it's physically impossible to be allergic to mangoes and not be allergic to latex... and yet, here I stand!

I understand how that feels. Im allergic to Pineapple and am Latex Sensitive but if i say Hey No pineapple people look at me funny cause you can't be allergic to it. Heaven forbid i break out in to hives the moment a drop touches my skin.