Originally Posted by
txrandom
You should probably familiarize yourself with celiac disease.
I know what it is. Believe me, I have been told about the evils of gluten more times than I can count. My point is restaurants don't have to cater to every illness known to man, especially every disease like Celiac that affects less than 1% of the population. If they did, about the only items on the menu would be water. Well probably not since someone somewhere is probably allergic to that as well.
Adam Carolla had a funny bit about gluten allergies on his podcast recently....essentially saying nobody's allergic to anything when they're hungry and/or poor. But Americans being fat and rich, can afford to be allergic to everything under the sun. And it is interesting how 20 years ago when I was in school nobody was allerfic to anything. Today, 2/3 of the kids in my kids' class are allergic to something, which means my kids' lunches can't contain anything that's on the forbidden list.