> CP wrote --
>> I came down fr breakfast & there was my meal from the night bhefore, at my
> place at the kitchen nook's table, still chilled from the fridge.
> I don't think that ever happened to me.
>>> chew the cracker once or twice and immediately wash it down with champagne.
> That is only done to not offend the host.
>> I would simply tell the host, "I'm sorry; I'm sure it's good, but I just
>can't eat it; I don't getr anaphylaxis, so it's not technically amn allergy --
> more a severe food intolerance." (only if they insist on quizzing me)
> I was always told to simply take a bite, not to offend the host/hostess
> and go on with the meal.
Mt family bever visited anywhere for meals, so that's a lesson that I didn't
need to learn. On my own, I've figured out how to not offend, yet not eat
whaqy I won't/don't.
& without lying. . . I'm polite & all, & do all I9 can not to give offense,
bnut neither do Io concern myself withthose who insist on TAKING offense..
I was raised to not take things that don't belong to me, so if I see an offense
or resentment. . .
I also disagree with the "Finders Keepers" philosophy. If it isbn't ine, I
don't take it -- except for unidentifiable cash-only (e.g. $20 bill on the
ground); I call those gifts from the universe. . .
Natch, if I can figure out a way to link it to the correct owner, I would do
so. . .
MC, over speakers, "Mr. Johnson here says he los a wallet containing $400, & is
offering $50 for its safe return."
Voice in the back of the hall: "I'll give $100 reward!"
> There was only one time I had any other reaction to food or drink.
> It was a covered dish dinner at church and I ate or drank something that
> caused me to itch all over and had to leave.
So many ingredients -- might have been hidden in a commercial preparation, so
identifying the item wouldn't tell you the exact thing to beware of, outside of
that particular bottle of something. . .
Food sensitivities are no minor thing. My courtesy cousin is allergic to most
foods, cross categories. True story, happemned in Ontario: a woman didn't
believe her husband's cvlaim of being allergic to salmon, as that sounded
ridiculous to her, so she made a beef meatloaf & mixed in a small amount of
salmon just to givew him the old, "Hah! Caught you in your BS!" treatment
later.
Yup, anaphylaxis & he died.
She was not charged.
>> I'm an adult; I eat what I like & I like what I eat.
> As a bachelor I eat only what I like.
There you go, & why shouldn't you?
I'm odd, like my dad -- we're of the philosophy that it doesn't matter if you
just ate "that" earlier or yesterday, if you like it -- I can eat something I
like every day, if I were so inclined, or it came up that way. . .
--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
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