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where’s the extra-gluten pasta? the rise of the gluten-phobes is unchecked and I feel the rest of us are getting hosed.

svachalek 5mo ago
This is typical "help, the 99% is being oppressed because the 1% is not being oppressed" garbage. There's gluten everywhere. In a lot of American cuisine, every single item on the menu has wheat flour in it. Gluten isn't a phobia, it's an allergen that causes a variety of symptoms in people who are sensitive to it, from constipation and sneezing all the way up to bleeding and brain damage.
- bananamogul 5mo ago
  All the way up to death, actually. Celiacs who consume gluten destroy their digestive system and die. You know how celiac disease was first discovered? Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.
  - gib444 5mo ago
    > You know how celiac disease was first discovered? > Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together. It was the link to wheat specifically that was discovered in the Netherlands, not the discovery of celiac disease itself. The disease has a much longer history [0] [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_early_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_... [1] https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/ https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/
- bluefirebrand 5mo ago
  I really hope that the person you replied to was being sarcastic.. It's getting better to be celiac but it's still very difficult. People who can eat gluten aren't being inconvenienced in any way by celiacs needing gluten free food at grocers

This is typical "help, the 99% is being oppressed because the 1% is not being oppressed" garbage. There's gluten everywhere. In a lot of American cuisine, every single item on the menu has wheat flour in it. Gluten isn't a phobia, it's an allergen that causes a variety of symptoms in people who are sensitive to it, from constipation and sneezing all the way up to bleeding and brain damage.

bananamogul 5mo ago
All the way up to death, actually. Celiacs who consume gluten destroy their digestive system and die. You know how celiac disease was first discovered? Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.
- gib444 5mo ago
  > You know how celiac disease was first discovered? > Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together. It was the link to wheat specifically that was discovered in the Netherlands, not the discovery of celiac disease itself. The disease has a much longer history [0] [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_early_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_... [1] https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/ https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/
bluefirebrand 5mo ago
I really hope that the person you replied to was being sarcastic.. It's getting better to be celiac but it's still very difficult. People who can eat gluten aren't being inconvenienced in any way by celiacs needing gluten free food at grocers