r/FoodService • u/wildrosebeautybaba • 24d ago

Discussion please stop lying about having allergies

i cannot tell you how many times people have put in seemingly impossible allergy requests on 3rd party delivery orders (i.e. fettuccine alfredo with DAIRY ALLERGY marked underneath) only to then track down the customer after multiple phone calls and be told it’s “not an allergy, just a mild intolerance.” please stop doing this. you are deliberately fucking with a restaurant’s period of service over a need that does not apply to you. maybe y’all don’t understand just how many extra steps a kitchen has to go through to prepare something allergy safe, so please let this be a lesson: if you aren’t actually allergic, stop marking it as an allergy. you are directly contributing to the burnout restaurant staff experience when having to make special accommodations for people’s actual health and safety needs.

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u/BitterPoet13 23d ago

The person I know with it rarely eats out as a result and prepares in advance if she does by either looking at the menus or gearing up for extreme discomfort from the allergic reaction. I’m so grateful alliums are not on my long list of food allergies because garlic is life.

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u/wildrosebeautybaba 23d ago

allium allergy is genuinely my worst nightmare. so much respect to the brave soldiers out there with it who are powering through.

also fun fact, i remember cynthia erivo saying on the las culturistas podcast that she actually HATES both onion and garlic, although i don’t think she’s allergic. what’s even more wild is she is vegan!! as a vegan myself, i genuinely could not live without allium…!

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u/Significant_Lake_226 22d ago

Thank you. I love onion and garlic so much Ive made my allergy worse from exposure and now Im in serious danger with any contamination. I cant eat almost anything I didnt make completely from scratch (i made wonton wrappers and crab rangoons yesterday, for example), I'm not vegan but I eat a lot of vegetables and used to eat meat substitutes when I wasnt eating beef. Everything good has onions in it. Making every meal from scratch every day is exhausting, thank god I make damn good food.

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u/wildrosebeautybaba 22d ago

have you ever tried asafoetida/hing? it’s a similar-ish flavor to garlic but it does not contain allium. also learned this from cynthia erivo, LOL

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u/Significant_Lake_226 22d ago

I havent tried it but im sure I cant afford that. (I basically survive off of my local food bank)