These tumblr users make some very important points about why it’s so important to serve customers exactly what they ordered. Diseases and food allergies / intolerances are no joke and you could make someone seriously ill or worse if you serve them something other than what they ordered. Below are the examples, and a story about a barista deliberately serving dairy to someone who was deadly allergic:
(via: Bored Panda)
Are you allergic to anything, or is there anything you can’t eat? Has anyone ever served you it? Let us know your stories in the comments below!
I have IBS. It won’t kill me but if I eat something I am not supposed to, I will want to die. The pain is unbearable. I have to eat a FODMAP diet, a diet that was developed at a University in Australia. It is now being used across the world to help sufferers like me. No dairy (which I am allergic to anyway), no gluten, no onions or garlic and about half of fruits and vegetables and a lot of sugars. Our food contains naturally occurring chemicals and they are present in high or low amounts. Eating out is a nightmare. But I truly appreciate those who help me out and reapect my health challenges.
I’m allergic to aspartame and sucralose. Thankfully it doesn’t happen very often, but I have had particularly idiotic servers repeatedly give me diet soda with my meal at a restaurant. One sip and the burning at the back of my throat tells me it’s wrong, but I’ve had to actually seek out the bartender and get my own damn drink because the moron brought me ANOTHER diet soda to replace the first one, as if I wouldn’t notice. Dunno if it was a weight thing or what but it was frustrating.
My reaction to sucralose (and xylitol but that’s uncommon) is more of a delayed one, so that’s harder to detect, until my guts twist in knots and I end up projectile vomiting.
I’ve been vegan for about 20 years for health reasons. I was always lactose intolerant, but now my body can’t process it at all. It’s only happened a few times, but when I do accidently get diary into my system, I get horrifically sick. It feels like a rock in my stomach, I get diarrhea so bad I can’t stay hydrated, cramps so terrible I can’t stand up straight and want to die and it goes on for at least 48 hours. I’ve missed work and ended up in the hospital once. When I say, “Please make sure there is no cheese/milk/cream/dairy in that, I’m highly allergic and can’t process it”, I mean it. It isn’t a true allergy, but if I just say “it makes me sick” they don’t pay attention (ask me how I know…). Look, I want to eat at restaurants, go out with my family, enjoy meals I don’t have to cook. But my health requires restrictions and I’m not being fussy or mean about it. I’m begging: PLEASE don’t give folks food or drinks they clearly state are dangerous for them.
Allergy to the capsaicin in peppers. No, not just another white girl allergic to taste, thank you for the judgement and the 24 hours of respiratory and gi issues. There’s only one Indian restaurant near me that is safe to order from because they take allergies seriously.