Modern Restaurant manners

Yeah, yeah... lighten up. The phrase "pale Dickensian nightmare" just struck me as funny.

easily amused, are we?

Tina,
Totally legit comments- especially given your experience.

On the flip-side, I actually had an acquaintance once send back her food because there was fresh tomato on her sandwich. ( she had told them no tomato, but they made a mistake.) Claimed a "tomato allergy", then said to me that she just really disliked them...Personally I would have just taken it off.

Deb

Yeah, yeah... lighten up. The phrase "pale Dickensian nightmare" just struck me as funny.

easily amused, are we?

Oh no. I've become the bad guy. For quoting another's article and finding the writing entertaining.
Look how bad I feel. Hope I can sleep tonight.

Tina,
Totally legit comments- especially given your experience.

On the flip-side, I actually had an acquaintance once send back her food because there was fresh tomato on her sandwich. ( she had told them no tomato, but they made a mistake.) Claimed a "tomato allergy", then said to me that she just really disliked them...Personally I would have just taken it off.

Deb

Just the smell of tomato can ruin my Sweetie's dinner, so i can understand that just taking it off might not work.

Tomatoes are one of those things that some folks absolutely do not like. It might even be up there with cilantro!

Steve,
I believe you. My point was she claimed to the server that she " had an allergy" -when she didn't. That's part of what increases the confusion about the severity of some real food allergies.

Deb

Steve,
I believe you. My point was she claimed to the server that she " had an allergy" -when she didn't. That's part of what increases the confusion about the severity of some real food allergies.

Deb

Yeah. I know what you mean. But in your friends defense, you shoudn't have to make it sound like life-and-death to keep the tomatoes out of your food.

I've seen it first hand with my wife. She ALWAYS requests no tomatoes, but gets them half the time anyway. She hasn't resorted to claiming an allergy, but I understand the frustration and why someone might finally conclude it was necessary

Yeah, yeah... lighten up. The phrase "pale Dickensian nightmare" just struck me as funny. I'm sure all your dietary restrictions are serious and should be treated with the utmost gravity.

You will learn when you experience a severe food allergy. We're not talking itchy hives here, we're talking about a persons' esophagus swelling up and breaking off their breathing and it can happen within a minute or two of coming into contact with an allergen. And with so much gene splicing and genetic food engineering it's becoming a more widespread problem. It's just not what you want to be flip about.


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I do emergency medical training for the Red Cross so Im very familiar with it. However as Gary said I think people are taking a light hearted article and making a mountain out of it.

Additionally, if your allergy is so serious as to be potentially fatal I would think you wouldnt even want to eat in a restaurant which serves products you are allergic to, because you never know when something might slip in unforeseen such as through an already used cooking utensil.
As Jeff mentioned in his post.