people with allergies shit me
nuts are a really healthy food which most of us could do with eating more of, but I can't give any to my daughter to take for lunch or snacks because maybe some other kid might take my daughters food and go into anaphylaxis so they're banned as an entire food group. I don't mind making allowances for people if it's a bit more work or cost, like building wheelchair ramps, but when their rare shit stops me from doing everyday activities they should fucking well stay at home. One of my favourite food is imperial mandarins when in season. Some sheila in the office claimed anybody eating citrus anywhere on the same floor gave her migraines so they denied me even that simple pleasure. So now they're going to force minimum wage waiters to memorise long lists of ingredients of each nightly dish, and kitchen staff to premeditate and record every single culinary decision down to each constituent component or get sued or charged with manslaughter. I did dishpigging a few times, and every cook I worked with was a fucked-up drunk barely holding it together.
anyway, rant over. I feel better now
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 13 Sep 2019, 15:31,
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I think that the point is
that any safety system should not rely on humans as they are inherently unreliable.
Allergen information should be presented in a common format to mandated standards. It should also be relied on to be complete. Unfortunately the law as it stands allows information to be presented in a wide variety of ways. Not all of them obvious or reliable.
Byron’s policy of having it at the bottom of the reverse of the menu (the small print), remote from the food itself, in a difficult to read text/background colour combination, and then relying on online staff training, looks more like they’re trying to protect the company instead of their customers.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 13 Sep 2019, 16:05,
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Don't you be coming here
with all your sensible reasonable points. We're gearing up for civil war right now and this kind of sanity is unpatriotic.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 13 Sep 2019, 23:08,
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I've had allergies since childhood, I don't rely on others to avoid triggers.
It is the dependency, drama types and unthinking people you seem to be suffering from.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 13 Sep 2019, 16:28,
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If I had a restaurant and was asked if something contained an allergin from today
I'd probably just say yes. Better safe than sorry, and there's plenty of other people out there who won't go and die after drinking a glass of water or whatever. Fuck em, I say - if you can't eat a buttered roll without your cock exploding you should probably either be dead already or be living in a plastic bubble.
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If I had an food allergy that serious.
I wouldn't be eating anything at random restaurants.
I'd be getting treatment for it or preparing my own food.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 13 Sep 2019, 16:46,
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^ This
Spot on. If I had something like that which could kill me no WAY would I eat at a restaurant and trust the staff to tell me "yeah it's OK" as if they know.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 13 Sep 2019, 23:10,
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Yes, the obvious solution
is to label every single item on your menu with every single allergen.
"Yes, I'm afraid our Vegan pasta contains egg, milk, molluscs, crustaceans and fish... you'll just have to fuck off."
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ah no worries. I was having one of those middle-aged moments when you look back on what you've written and think, "Christ, that sounds like something fucking Clarkson would say"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 14 Sep 2019, 0:14,
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