WTF

[legionpossessed]

I may have mentioned a while ago Zog has celiac disease which means he can't eat gluten which is found in wheat, barley and to a small extent oats. For about two years now and feels a lot better. As you can see, this limits what he can eat because wheat is found in many things, even in not obvious things like sausage and gluten is used as a filler

Comments

[ameinias]

Maybe what they mean is "wonder bread", which is made of cardboard and sand. No wheat in it because that would resemble edible food.

We started running a gluten-free class at my work a few months ago, and we're still trying to iron the kinks out. I never knew there were so many gluten alternatives! We have a whole half shelf reserved just for ingredients for that class, and every time it comes up all the chefs start madly experimenting again. Because the gluten alternatives tend to be... kind of weak. We end up with recipes that use like three different kinds of non-wheat flour in really specific measurements to try to simulate the taste/texture/density of of the original.

[amberrgrey]

That's got to be a headache at times, but the discovery and recipe tests must be fun as well. And when you perfect it that's gotta feel good!

[blaireliza]

Wow, it blows my mind that many people don't seem to "get" it. Where on earth to they think bread comes from? I knew a couple of people who couldn't eat food with gluten in it though it's been a while to find out what exactly they did to make things as manageable as possible for them. Great to hear that Zog is doing well though!

[tjernobyl]

Bread mines.

[amberrgrey]

I agree, that is wicked stupid!

I'm sorry too that his diet is so limited (and in a way yours too), because you're right, wheat and gluten are used in so much food! Foods that I would have never thought of containing wheat do. Gluten I can kinda see, I just know it's used as a filler but most foods use it, but the wheat one surprises me.

Somewhat related: one of my sister's pups is allergic to wheat. That's where my education on wheat began, because many dog foods and treats are made with it, which surprised the heck out of me. Then I started to learn more on human food and pay a bit more attention to labels of the food I buy. Surprising.

Hope you both are doing well! *hugs*

[flutterbyz]

We use wheat and derived stuff in entirely too much of our food. A bit of variety would probably do wonders for us.

In my mind white bread like the stuff in Canada and the US is industrialized carbs. It comes in a bag with uniform texture and colour, perfectly shaped, and sits on a shelf with a dozen other loaves that look exactly the same, the slices are all exactly the same thickness... it's almost easier to imagine it being squeezed out of a tube than mixed out of real ingredients. So I could see how mentally it would be more a chemical like processed cheese...! The wheat bread at least has WHEAT emblazoned on it to remind you it did come from something plant-like somewhere up the chain.

But then, I do agree that they're numbskulls because even making cookies or pancakes requires flour, generally white, so how do they miss that? Most people do that at least once in their lives.

[mizrychik62]

Very good point, yes --it's not that they don't know, they haven't ever had a chance to wonder about it. Bread is bread and comes from a bag, same as a chicken. Funny.

[merry_fitzmas]

srsly? What do they think it's made out of?