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"Gray, Alison J" <ag...@essex.ac.uk> writes
Liz
I couldn't agree more, both DD and I are allergic to all forms of dairy
food, and certainly in the UK when eating out desserts are all but
impossible. In restaurants they very rarely understand what is
actually in the food they are serving up.
I tend to have salad rather than chips/veg when I'm out, but I always
ask for it without onion or dressing... there have been several places
where I've been told "we don't dress our salads" only to be served a
dressed salad... the worst are those where it looks on the surface that
the salad isn't dressed, but under the top leaves, there hides the
dressing.... would they really like me to bring the lot back up? With
(raw) onion, it is a matter of dislike, so if the slices are large I
will occasionally pick it out and pass it to my husband - but finely
chopped and the whole lot has to go back.
Usually it is a case of the kitchen being on auto-pilot - the worst was
the evening at a local pub we use often, our waiter (who ended up very
frustrated!) put the order through correctly - we watched him type it in
- but between the salad and my steak they got it wrong three times, and
I ended up with a free meal!
We have in the past, when out with a coeliac friend, had a Beefeater go
and get their list of ingredients to check, and others when asked about
the presence of nuts (which give me painful mouth ulcers) have been able
to check, either with the chef or in one case "I'll go and look at the
box it came in"!!!
My other peeve is in restaurants with help-yourself salad bars - where
people insist on using the wrong tongs so you end up with beetroot
(yuck!) in the cucumber..... or mayonnaise from the pasta stuff (they
call that salad???) mixed in with the peppers.... grrrr
--
Jane Partridge
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