Re:When running for exercise was for weirdos
by TACIXAT on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:25PM
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>Today, most of the people who think they have a gluten problem are making it up
Citation please? I've yet to meet anyone who was making it up. Most people just don't want to talk to a stranger about their poop.
My wife brought home some Glutino brand crackers. They are delicious. (Neither of us care about "gluten free").
If you want to really sock it to the gluten-free movement, you can buy fried gluten in a can. This is an import item you can find it in Chinese grocery stores.
See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_%28food%29
Scroll down a bit.
I've known about and eaten this stuff long before the silly gluten-free fad; not a knee-jerk reaction or anything!
I've also known about people with gluten issues long before the fad. I remember a co-worker telling me about her sensitivity to wheat circa 1991 and that it was the gluten. She was not self-diagnosed either. There was no reason not to take her seriously; though I hadn't heard of it before, it was entirely plausible to have an allergy to a protein in wheat. Today, most of the people who think they have a gluten problem are making it up, and that's what supports "gluten free". However, it's probably helpful to those people who do have the allergy --- assuming the foods are even for real. Half of them probably have gluten! Is this "gluten-free" designation even regulated and enforced?