This guy's rant hurts my heart...and a lot of other people's hearts as well, apparently, as it's making it's way across the Gluten Free community like a bat outta hell. Obviously this chap's got a lot of misplaced anger (don't we all). What at first seems like a simpleton's tirade quickly reveals itself to be the action plan of a decided Pussy with a capital "P." Frankly, fucking with people's food is the oldest trick in the Passive Aggressive book.
While it's obvious that the Gluten-Free-Backlash is here to stay, I think this particular guy serves as a wonderful reminder to every single person who has celiac or who is gluten intolerant that we cannot control the actions of others. We must stay vigilant for our own safety, all the while politely educating whenever possible. Order more salads, veggies...and wine. Frequent the establishments that welcome the Gluten Free people with open arms. Appreciate how much more awareness there is now than there was ten years ago, how many more choices we have as consumers and as patients.
So don't sweat Damian Dumbass and his lame bag of tricks. There are many more like him, and there always will be. Let's turn this rock fight into a bake-off, which means I'm off to go make a kick-ass GF chocolate cake.
Many thanks to @KarinaAllrich and @StephanieODea for source links.
People are straight up crazy. Seriously, anything that gets brought into the public consciousness is guaranteed to be attacked by someone. There seems to be a lot of food allergy backlash, in general. A lot of, "When I was a kid, we all ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and we were fine!" It's a sort of old generation, new parenting backlash in a larger sense. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteI find the rant very interesting because he says flour and bread have been the staple of our diets for THOUSANDS of years.
ReplyDeleteWhile it has been around, for what some people may think is a long time, it was actually a product of the modern agricultural revolution. Before this our species survived longer (for many many THOUSANDS of years) on a diet that did not include any of the flours or bread products that we consider a staple of our "modern diet".
Furthermore, it is because this is a relatively new concept-- creating bread and using flour, that our bodies react in the way they do to gluten. We were not designed to digest it. We were primarily designed to eat lean meats, fruits and vegetables that we could hunt and gather.
I don't remember seeing a loaf of wonder bread in the ground...
Poor misguided chef. Please do not come to Hollywood any time soon.
Hi Anna!
ReplyDeletePam MacD's Gluten Free Market is located at 3516 w. Magnolia in Burbank. For a look at the market, please follow this KCBS link to a segment on Pam MacD's.
http://tinyurl.com/3syd7nj.
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