Your Rants
August 15, 2007 by glutenfreesteve
Here’s your chance to vent. Get what’s bugging you about being gluten free off your chest. It’s a great feeling, and you can do it anonymously!
I’ll kick it off…
It drives me crazy when people always have to comment to me not being able to eat gluten whenever there is something around (cake/pie/bagels/etc). “Steve, you want a piece of cake? Oh yeah, you can’t have any”. You may not realize it, but you are hurting my feelings.
great idea! It bugs me whenever people think I am being high maintenance about being gluten free. It’s called trying to live, not being high maintenance.
Yikes Steve.. I think I know the person who says that to you! They get around, lemme tell ya! =)
Oh man, I totally agree.
My rant: Just because it is gluten free does not mean it is bad/yucky/bland/salty/sweet/etc. I hate when my “friends” make assumptions about my food because it is not like theirs! Most of the time, it is BETTER than theirs! Besides, why would I eat something nasty??!! Think about it people!!!
You said it Tiffany, why would we eat something nasty?!
Oh! There is a rant section! Please see my comment under GF newbie
i had a moment 
The thing that i hate is when people say i am being “too careful”….UM…NO!!!
I don’t really have a rant, but I was not sure where I could ask this question. I’m still a bit of a newbie to this diet and constantly come across misleading information. I have come across the additive Annato (color) - does anyone know if this is in fact gluten free? I have had soem that say yes and then I’ll go on antoher blog site and they will say no. Annato is used in lots of foods - I had a whole issue at teh store trying to buy some chedder cheese for my tacos. I’d appriciate any help - thank you!
I have been gluten-free for about six months and I MISS BIRTHDAY CAKE. I have never said no to cake. I actually have never met a piece of cake I didn’t like. And now I can only have cake with strange ingredients like vinegar or xanthen (sp?) gum. I have been dairy free for a year, so to all my friends and family, I am very high maintenance. How is that for a rant?
On the positive side, I have never felt better or ate healthier.
Great information. Thank you.
lna
Holly - Annato color is GF - no worries!
=)
I hate when someone says I have “such willpower, I couldn’t go without ____”
(Um, if something made you sick you would do without it…)or “isn’t there a pill you can take?” no ” are you sure” (No, I am stupid and I just like to spend more money for GF food!)
Waiters that respond “I dunno…” when you ask is there wheat in it…(gee, I guess I’ll just have the water…and not give you a tip or ever come back.)
Here’s one (you haven’t heard once)
“Oh I wish I had Celiac disease so I could lose weight.”
Oh really? Can I punch you in the stomach? That way you can ‘try’ it before you ‘buy’ it. lol
Ooohh people.
Steve, I found your site through Kate via the GlutenFreeMommy. I couldn’t figure out how to email you except this public comment.
I want to know more about your personal dental history.
I have a child I think may have celiac sprue, but has had 2 negative ’screens’ by 2 docs. I swear I have my kids brush more than any other in town & he has these odd places for cavities. (My research confirms they are not the usual places.) A specialist once said ‘his enamel may not have developed properly in utero’ but why? The other 3 children have no problems. Now I am starting to look more closely at Celiac the last several months. (There are other reasons I could tell you in an email.)
I was about to research dental enamel problems when I came across your blog. Your ‘about Steve’ section set off a bell when I read about the dental issue. I vaguely recalled reading about someone else’s dental problems on celiaccentral.org.
Please email. Now I’m off to try to find an article on the web w/more info about a Dutch team of dentists who studied children w/celiac & enamel problems…..(celiac.com)
You quickly learn how far your friends will go. I have one that has bent over backwards to accommodate me; going so far as to verify items he brings to potluck’s and lets me know before hand.
Others are like the above mentioned.. isn’t there a pill? You should see a different doctor I can recommend one!
but through it all I feel great, I’m still in the learning phase and occasionally oops with something .. darn how did that caramel food coloring get in there ..
I hear you Patrick. I have some friends who are great when it comes to making sure I have gf options. My family is great as well, though they might not fully realize the cc concerns.
I have a silly rant Steve, I can’t figure out how to post a blogroll!!! Please help! I know my way around gluten-free food, but not wordpress
Tiffany, in your dashboard, there should be a tab for “Blogroll”. In there, there’s a link to “Add links”.
I hate it when people argue with you, oh you can’t have rice, I know that for a fact, because some else is on this diet and can not have it so why do you think that you can…I also hate the Oh, I am sorry I would invite you and the family for lunch but Julie can’t eat it, but you guys can so why don’t you guys eat it and I will see if I can find something for julie, oh I am sorry julie I don’t have anything but an apple, everybody else has pasta, I get an apple, yea I don’t mind at all I will just go cry in the car, or the best one, when you ask for no bun, because you can not eat wheat, but our buns are white, you explain that it is still wheat even if it is plain white flour flour is flour, oh, lady you don’t understand our buns are not made of flowers either, they are white buns…..ugh.
Dear Amy J,
You were asking about Dental History. There was an article in LIVING WITHOUT (2006) about the lack of enamel of children’s teeth. My daughter didn’t have enamel on her molars when they came in. She was undiagnosed at the time I read that article and had been sickly all her life. That article convinced her to go gluten free. The results were dramatic. She then went on to be tested and we found out she has Celiacs.
Reading all of the other posts on this “rant” makes me feel better and worse at the same time…it is nice to know that there are other people out there who know how I feel, and at the same time it totally sucks for all of us that we have to put up with this. I have had very similar experiences to those described by others, the waiters that dont know what is in the food they are bringing me, someone thinking that giving me white bread is ok, and those that get more worked up than me about what I can eat at the party …… but what I hate the most lately is just how “sensitive” I have become to just about everything. My diet is pretty good and I cook a lot so I know what I am putting into my body. But it seems like something else is really bothering my stomach just like gluten did. So here I go again, having to be the detective and figure out what it is.
Steve - here’s my rant: Today was a coworkers birthday, so they had a cake for her. Not a shocker, and I didn’t plan on eating anything at our little gathering. But then my coworker pulls out these little chocolate candy she bought for the party. She then tells me, “Oh I didn’t get you one, as I know you can’t eat it.” So I ask her what’s inside? “Just chocolate and peanut butter.” Most likely I could eat it! But the fact that she just was so thoughtless (is that the right word?) about it, not even asking me first if I could eat one just got my goat. The least she could have done was either ask me if I could eat one (and got me one) or bought me something I could eat, knowing I couldn’t eat the cake.