Why lie about health problems?

[Greenday]

Based on my experiences, you pretty much do have to lie and say you are allergic to something in order to:

1) Actually get them to leave something normal off
2) Not get weird looks

It's like whenever I want a steak sandwich (cheese doesn't belong on that kind of meat imo). Menus never have "steak sandwich" but they'll have "cheesesteak sandwich". So when I ask for a steak sandwich I get told they don't have that and when I ask for a cheesesteak without cheese I get a weird look and/or they put cheese on it anyway because apparently who would dare want a steak sandwich without cheese? I noticed when I started to tell people I was lactose intolerant (which I'm not), I stopped receiving dirty looks and cooks actually wouldn't put cheese on it.

I mean, for complex orders, that kind of lying to get most of the items removed from it is ridiculous, but if it's one thing, I say go for it.

[EricKei]

I have, more than once, been heading to the mall after work instead of to my house and forgotten that I wasn't going straight home and ended up taking the first left halfway there instead of the second.

I've done that before. If my dad was in the car at the time, he would usually make a comment along the lines of "that's why there are no old pilots" (meaning, going on 'mental autopilot' as an actual jet pilot could turn out very badly, indeed)

[Andara Bledin]

Based on my experiences, you pretty much do have to lie and say you are allergic to something in order to:

1) Actually get them to leave something normal off
2) Not get weird looks

I've never had to lie about it. I've sometimes had them leave something on them, and never had a problem with either strange looks or them not actually fixing it. *shrug*

^-.-^

[Eisa]

The one time I got really annoyed is when I was at a coffee place and asked for soy milk...and found out later to my detriment, they used regular. I'm lactose intolerant. I shouldn't have to say that every time. Now I will, when it comes to stuff like that. Oh, and I've also had to ask for a different soda at restaurants if they bring me a diet one instead 'cause aspartame gives me headaches of death.

I'm not allergic to fresh tomatoes, but they are so disgusting to me, I throw up. So I ask for no tomatoes. If they forget or I forget, though, I just try to scrape 'em off. This does not work very well at Taco Bell, however, depending on what you get.

I also hate going to Wendy's because I do it so infrequently, I ALWAYS forget they put mayo on their burgers. I hate mayo. Especially on burgers. And if you wipe it off, you still end up with a mayo-soaked bun. Yuck.

[Enjis]

If she's allergic to nacho cheese, lettice, sour cream, why the heck is she going to Taco Bell?? I mean, seriously, that's pretty much what the whole menu is about!
When I was younger, I didn't like onions, cheese, tomatoes, sour cream...guess what food I never ate? If you guessed Mexican, you guessed right!
(love it now...go figure)

[earl colby pottinger]

Problem here is she said she COULD NOT eat Nacho cheese when ordering one product, but want it in another.

She does not have a health problem. In my cause I would refuse to serve her, stating clearly that she already said Nacho cheese was deadly to her, thus to limit legal problems if she does eat any cheese, lettuce, onions. State it to her: Better to lose a sale than have to pay her hospital-funereal bills.

[manybellsdown]

I have the same problem with onions - fresh will make me ill, but dehydrated ones are okay.

Now my husband and son ... they both have celiac disease. Which is not really a "food allergy", it's an autoimmune disorder. The problem is, just because something doesn't ordinarily use flour does not mean it's safe for them to eat. Some things that make waitstaff give us the "duh" look when we ask about:

Mashed potatoes - some restaurants use flour in them to make the fluffy
Scrambled eggs - at least one popular breakfast joint uses pancake batter in the eggs. Again, it makes them fluffy.
Anything involving soy sauce - 99% of commercial soy sauce uses wheat flour as a fermentation aid. So if the meat is marinated, we need to know in what.

Currently, "gluten-free" is the new hip food fad, so it's easy to find menus and restaurants that understand it. I dread the day it's no longer popular with people that don't need to be on the diet and we go back to blank looks and crappy selection.

[Moogles]

I have a rare genetic disorder, and there's A LOT of stuff I can't eat. Essentially, my body is missing certain enzymes, and eating food that's had any contact with the following WILL land me in the hospital:

Anything in the cabbage family (brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, turnip)
Peppers
Milk products
Beef, Chicken, Pork *includes base used in soup stock*

The meat thing? Yeah, I'm missing the enzyme to break the protein down completely. I will end up exceedingly stomach sick to the point that I won't even be able to sip water.

Went to a restaurant once, and ordered their vegetarian quesadillas. They gave me chicken ones. I had to send it back TWICE and they refused to comp for the server deciding that I actually meant chicken (she actually told me that herself). I haven't been back yet.

I'm so lucky there's an organic vegetarian restaurant where I live. I always feed bad asking for specific things to be off my food. You want gluten-free? No problem! They make everything themselves, and bake their own gluten-free bread before anything else.

[Moon]

If she's allergic to nacho cheese, lettice, sour cream, why the heck is she going to Taco Bell?? I mean, seriously, that's pretty much what the whole menu is about!
When I was younger, I didn't like onions, cheese, tomatoes, sour cream...guess what food I never ate? If you guessed Mexican, you guessed right!
(love it now...go figure)

This reminds me of a bit I saw awhile back by a comedian... He joked that mexican food is all the same-- Tortilla with cheese, meat or vegetables.

http://comedians.jokes.com/jim-gaffi...-bottled-water

Relevant part of the clip starts at around 1:50, but the whole routine is funny. (last line references first part of clip if you skip ahead).

[TruthHurts]

Girls like Ms. Allergic tick me off. It's makes things harder for people who actually have food allergies. I actually am allergic to onions and have had numerous people accuse me of faking it.

[froglet]

If she had thought REALLY hard, she could have said they were for different family members and all had different allergies!

Thats going to be the new thing that bugs me about SCs, their lack of imagination and originality

[Cia]

Aspartame makes me sick, literally sick - stomach cramps and praying to the porcelain god sick. I never drank diet pop cause of the nasty aftertaste but one Turkey Day we were over at my BIL's house and the only pop they had was diet. I was desparate for a pop so I drank the stuff. Boy did I pay for it four hours later.

[zombiequeen]

Aspartame makes me sick, literally sick - stomach cramps and praying to the porcelain god sick. I never drank diet pop cause of the nasty aftertaste but one Turkey Day we were over at my BIL's house and the only pop they had was diet. I was desparate for a pop so I drank the stuff. Boy did I pay for it four hours later.

My husband is similar, any artificial sweetener makes him cry in the bathroom for a few hours while I bring him wet washrags and gatorade. :/ He thinks it's his ADHD coupled with a sensitivity.

[tropicsgoddess]

Too bad you couldn't tell her that you're DEATHLY allergic to bullshit. That was just fucked up she outright lied about her allergies as an excuse to get her way on her food!

[Shangri-laschild]

You can be allergic to some forms of foods but not others

Ah the joys of weird allergy type things. I love peppermint stuff. Never had a problem with it. But my friend got one of those incense things that uses essential oil, powder (sand like stuff) and a charcoal piece. When he used lemon oil with it, it felt a little claustrophobic but it was fine. When he used peppermint, it felt like my throat was closing. Not so much that I couldn't breath at all but laying down made my throat relax because of gravity but unlike how you usually wouldn't notice it happening, my throat was swollen enough for me to notice it and so laying down meant feeling like I couldn't breath even though I kind of still could. Still no clue why. And I know it was the oil itself because it happened even worse when I accidentally got some on my hands (which transferred to my face). I've avoided it sense then but still have no problem with any peppermint type food.

This was of course right around the time that I started having some problems with Dominos. Something in their new crust seasoning was having the same effect on me for some reason and once that hit, other pizzas started bothering me as well but not as much. Weirdly enough that has died off some but I still get a little bit of an odd throat feeling every so often from Dominos and I have no clue why.

Of course both of those came up right around the time of my knee surgery so having to tell the dr about my two "allergies" for my upcoming surgeries got some interesting looks.