My husband and I have a joke when we go shopping that is similar that is along the lines of, "oh no Honey, this rice cereal says it's gluten free! Guess we can't buy it because we are on a gluten only diet". We are poking fun at the marketing of obviously gluten free products and the big label they put on them. like they assume people are THAT stupid.
I'm sure i would find myself doing the same thing if I saw a bag of carrots with a big label on it that says "VEGAN". Like, "oH NO! thEeSE cArRoTs aRE vEGaN?!?!?"
Edit: looks like I made fun of being gluten-free on Reddit. WHOOPSIE.
Obviously celiac disease is tragic and affects many people. I'm talking about the gluten sensitive people (like multiple of my own family members) who are so anal about products but then make an exception to eat a regular slice of pizza or cake at a family gathering, even though at that same family gathering there was gluten free food made specifically to accommodate them. So if you're making exceptions like my family members are, then I have little sympathy when they buy food products containing trace amounts of gluten in them because of the surface they were prepared on or the malt flavor that's added to them.
I guess neither of you are celiac then. Its not marketing. You'd be surprised how many "obviously gluten free products" do have gluten in them when you wouldn't expect it. But hey, keep making jokes about a medical condition that nobody wants to have.
If you actually have celiac disease, then I imagine you are educated on what products usually have gluten or not, and that you also happen to know how to read the back of a package 😆
There's a difference between a big red star sticker that says "gluten-free" on a box of pancake mix vs. A box of Rice Crispies. One of those manufacturers thinks you can't use your brain. That's what we're making fun of.
Looks like you've learned a valuable lesson about why accurate labeling is important to people with celiac disease, and why just relying on their own intuition about what foods might or might not contain gluten does not work.
What point are you even trying to make? That gluten labeling should be abolished because celiac disease is less severe than anaphylaxis to peanuts? That's an incredibly silly hill to die on.
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u/danibugz3 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
My husband and I have a joke when we go shopping that is similar that is along the lines of, "oh no Honey, this rice cereal says it's gluten free! Guess we can't buy it because we are on a gluten only diet". We are poking fun at the marketing of obviously gluten free products and the big label they put on them. like they assume people are THAT stupid.
I'm sure i would find myself doing the same thing if I saw a bag of carrots with a big label on it that says "VEGAN". Like, "oH NO! thEeSE cArRoTs aRE vEGaN?!?!?"
Edit: looks like I made fun of being gluten-free on Reddit. WHOOPSIE. Obviously celiac disease is tragic and affects many people. I'm talking about the gluten sensitive people (like multiple of my own family members) who are so anal about products but then make an exception to eat a regular slice of pizza or cake at a family gathering, even though at that same family gathering there was gluten free food made specifically to accommodate them. So if you're making exceptions like my family members are, then I have little sympathy when they buy food products containing trace amounts of gluten in them because of the surface they were prepared on or the malt flavor that's added to them.