Ranty rant about Austin
mehaugen
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I'm going to Austin this weekend (sort of a gluten free mecca). A friend suggested a restaurant, so I decided to check out their website.
Score! They have a gluten free menu! And, score! they make gluten free pancakes (we are going for brunch).
But I've learned my lesson the hard way one too many times that diners make meat and pancakes on the same griddle. So I inquired further. And, of course, they still make the gluten free items on the same griddle!
This makes me feel so PUNCHY and RANTY. I hate when restaurants "flirt" with you like that, only to not be actually serious. I hate when restaurants try to hop on the gluten free bandwagon without knowing how to serve us. I hate when gluten free menus say not to eat from it if you are gluten free!!
The only people who care about gluten free menus are people who are gluten free.
So making a gluten free menu that says not to eat from it if you are gluten free is STUPID.
The only people who can/would eat from these menus are people that cheat on their gluten free diet, only eat a "little bit" of gluten (??????) and people who have no idea that diners make meat and pancakes on the same griddle. The first two types of people make us look bad, and I dislike them a lot, especially when they tell me "oh I cheat all the time". But I digress.
Would you make a peanut-free menu, and then not make any effort to make the peanut free items on a clean counter/cooktop, and then tell peanut-free people, "Sorry, this isn't really peanut-free, and we can't serve you." Wouldn't you be OFFENDED by this if you were peanut free?
I would rather be told by a restaurant: "We can't serve you, nothing is safe," than this crap.
Score! They have a gluten free menu! And, score! they make gluten free pancakes (we are going for brunch).
But I've learned my lesson the hard way one too many times that diners make meat and pancakes on the same griddle. So I inquired further. And, of course, they still make the gluten free items on the same griddle!
This makes me feel so PUNCHY and RANTY. I hate when restaurants "flirt" with you like that, only to not be actually serious. I hate when restaurants try to hop on the gluten free bandwagon without knowing how to serve us. I hate when gluten free menus say not to eat from it if you are gluten free!!
The only people who care about gluten free menus are people who are gluten free.
So making a gluten free menu that says not to eat from it if you are gluten free is STUPID.
The only people who can/would eat from these menus are people that cheat on their gluten free diet, only eat a "little bit" of gluten (??????) and people who have no idea that diners make meat and pancakes on the same griddle. The first two types of people make us look bad, and I dislike them a lot, especially when they tell me "oh I cheat all the time". But I digress.
Would you make a peanut-free menu, and then not make any effort to make the peanut free items on a clean counter/cooktop, and then tell peanut-free people, "Sorry, this isn't really peanut-free, and we can't serve you." Wouldn't you be OFFENDED by this if you were peanut free?
I would rather be told by a restaurant: "We can't serve you, nothing is safe," than this crap.
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Pat, pat. I feel your pain. And geeze louise, how hard would it be to have ONE LOUSY pan that you kept GF for GFers. I think that you are running into resturants who want to please the scads of people who are jumping on GF wagon, not because they have too, but they are trying it out as the new health fad. A little gluten exposure isn't going to hurt them.
There is a chain up here in Mass called Fresh Express that does stir fry. The funny thing is that my non GF hubby had ordered nearly the same item as I did. But with my order, the kid yelled back. "Use the clean pan for the Lain order, it is GF."
My husband was upset that he got "the dirty pan".0
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