Listen to what the Chef told me

racenfan · Post by **racenfan** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:18 pm

I am very new to all this and have really only posted a couple times. So hello again, and I am glad I have a place to vent.

I was going to lunch today with some coworkers, I called ahead and asked some questions about what ingredients were used in the meal I was planning on having, and explained that I can not have gluten, soy or lactose. I felt like I had a safe choice. I show up at the restaurant and the cook/chef comes out to assure me my food is free of those items, and then says, "but you know there is a pill you can take for gluten, it is called glutensomething or celiasomething and it is at all the health food stores, yeah it works like that lactose stuff, just in case you get any cross contamination." My jaw dropped and I just sat there like WHAT???? I couldn't say anything.

Of course an hour or so later, all my responses came rushing into my head, along with concern that HE might have cross contaminated me. So far I feel fine, so I don't think so, but just in case, I don't think I will eat there again!

Has anyone had that response before?

TooManyHats · Post by **TooManyHats** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:14 pm

Wow! It might take me an hour or so to think of something to say here. Wow!

Foxnhound8 · Post by **Foxnhound8** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:49 pm

Wow, indeed...

foxnhound

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:21 pm

That's amazing that he said that. It does not engender confidence in what you were about to eat.

I would however love to find this new cure for gluten sensitivity issues.

--Joe

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:45 pm

Never heard of it. I would have been flabbergasted too.

Gloria

MBombardier · Post by **MBombardier** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:23 pm

Seems like there was a discussion on the board at one time or another about how Americans seem to want to have what they want it when they want it and expect to just be able to take a pill to alleviate any ill effects and go on their merry way...

Post by **tex** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:21 pm

That "informed" chef was probably referring to the product discussed at the following link. He is a perfect example of a little education being a bad thing.

http://glutendoctors.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -work.html

There are several similar products advertised with glowing praise, such as the sales pitch at the link below. If anyone here actually believes any of those sales pitches, I own some prime ranch land, located in a remote area of beautiful New Mexico, (IOW, out in the desert), that I might be willing to part with, if someone were to twist my arm, (and I'll bet that I can make it sound like a good investment, if you're interested).

http://bestbuyhealth.com/_blog/BestBuyH ... with_Ease/

Tex

racenfan · Post by **racenfan** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:13 am

After I posted this and told the same story to a few more people (non gluten free people, so they didn't really get me reaction) I googled it, you can google everything now days right? I saw the same things Tex found. I think what I couldn't understand the most, and maybe I am just really off base here since this is all new to me, If you are avoiding gluten due to some form of "itis" or Celiac, that gluten is causing damage right? So if these pills really did work, it would only have to be illuminating the "d" reaction, the damage is still being done.

I have not been gluten free as long as most of you, yesterday I did fall off the bus and had crackers, out with a group of people and it just didn't registered until I had had several. I didn't have a "gut" reaction, but later that day I couldn't figure out why I was so tired and had a headache. I am positive that was why.

Post by **tex** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:58 am

racenfan wrote:So if these pills really did work, it would only have to be illuminating the "d" reaction, the damage is still being done.

Well, yes, if a food sensitivity is the problem, and the food is not eliminated from the diet, then the best the pills can do, (if they work at all), is to reduce or minimize the damage.

racenfan wrote:but later that day I couldn't figure out why I was so tired and had a headache. I am positive that was why.

I'm sure you're right - those are common symptoms for many of us.

Tex

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:25 am

Unbelievable and not a chef I would trust. Might have a hard time selling that land on this board Tex.

Love, Maggie

ant · Post by **ant** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:23 am

Dear Racenfan

My reading of the chef is that he does not want to let facts get in the way of his creative freedom.

Bit like if an architect wanted to build a unique but very dodgy structure and was told that some new material (expensive and untested) could allow him to do something no-one had done before.

Of course the motivation is his ego, not what his clients want.

Best, ant

LBombardier · Post by **LBombardier** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:36 am

I would think that would open up avenues for the chef to become even MORE creative.