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When I was a child, I was allergic to a whole bunch of things, one of them being sweets. But I wasn't allergic to apples, carrots and blackberries, so those wer

When I was a child, I was allergic to a whole bunch of things, one of them being sweets. But I wasn't allergic to apples, carrots and blackberries, so those were given to me in place of sweets. Now in adulthood blackberries are my favourite snack, followed by apples, and I'm not a huge fan of sweets.

voakbasda 5y ago
Were you really allergic to sweets or did your parents tell you that to control your behavior? in the context of this thread, that sounds like what some parents would do, and your last sentence implies that you can actually eat them.
- yakubin 5y ago
  I was really allergic. I was born with a sick gastrointestinal tract. After 7 years it was cured with a short relapse some years later.
supertofu 5y ago
What ingredient in sweets were you allergic to?
- yakubin 5y ago
  Depended on the sweets. There was a whole bunch of allergies I don't even remember now. My whole gastrointestinal tract was perpetually sick (since birth), I would visit the hospital basically everyday. Most notably, I couldn't eat chocolate, because I was lactose- and gluten-intolerant. So I couldn't eat any sweets which had any chocolate in them, no sweets which were pastry-based etc. Tangentially, in those times avoiding gluten wasn't as fashionable as it is today, and so there wasn't really any gluten-free bread to buy. My mum would bake bread herself for that purpose, because otherwise I wouldn't even be able to eat bread.
  - tasuki 5y ago
    > I couldn't eat chocolate, because I was lactose- and gluten-intolerant I have to call you out on this, I eat a lot of dark chocolate - it has absolutely no lactose nor gluten. Yes, milk chocolate has lactose, that's kind of in the name. For chocolate to contain gluten it'd have to contain cookies, pretzels, crispy things.
    - yakubin 5y ago
      Yes. I was talking about milk chocolate. I didn't even know there was something like "dark chocolate" at that age. Incidentally, now I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate by and large. I mentioned gluten not in relation to chocolate, but to other sweets that do contain gluten, but also have chocolate.
      - tasuki 5y ago
        Ok fair, I also didn't know there were other types of chocolate when I was little :)

voakbasda 5y ago

Were you really allergic to sweets or did your parents tell you that to control your behavior? in the context of this thread, that sounds like what some parents would do, and your last sentence implies that you can actually eat them.

yakubin 5y ago
I was really allergic. I was born with a sick gastrointestinal tract. After 7 years it was cured with a short relapse some years later.

supertofu 5y ago

What ingredient in sweets were you allergic to?

yakubin 5y ago
Depended on the sweets. There was a whole bunch of allergies I don't even remember now. My whole gastrointestinal tract was perpetually sick (since birth), I would visit the hospital basically everyday. Most notably, I couldn't eat chocolate, because I was lactose- and gluten-intolerant. So I couldn't eat any sweets which had any chocolate in them, no sweets which were pastry-based etc. Tangentially, in those times avoiding gluten wasn't as fashionable as it is today, and so there wasn't really any gluten-free bread to buy. My mum would bake bread herself for that purpose, because otherwise I wouldn't even be able to eat bread.
- tasuki 5y ago
  > I couldn't eat chocolate, because I was lactose- and gluten-intolerant I have to call you out on this, I eat a lot of dark chocolate - it has absolutely no lactose nor gluten. Yes, milk chocolate has lactose, that's kind of in the name. For chocolate to contain gluten it'd have to contain cookies, pretzels, crispy things.
  - yakubin 5y ago
    Yes. I was talking about milk chocolate. I didn't even know there was something like "dark chocolate" at that age. Incidentally, now I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate by and large. I mentioned gluten not in relation to chocolate, but to other sweets that do contain gluten, but also have chocolate.
    - tasuki 5y ago
      Ok fair, I also didn't know there were other types of chocolate when I was little :)