I have encountered this one too! Though probably much less frequently than you have.
My boyfriend doesn't eat nuts - he won't explode on contact, or anything exciting, he just violently dislikes them. Trying to find out whether something like a cake actually has nuts deliberately put in it is really quite difficult.
Tangentially, since we moved offices, the wife of one of my colleagues has started joining us for our Friday pub lunch trip (since they live very nearby). She's coeliac, and I've been slightly surprised at the extent to which fairly average pubs have been reasonably clued-up and very obliging. By 'average', I mean a small pub with a limited menu, not a gastropub or a particularly foody place. None of them have had specific gf options on the menu, but thus far they've been most willing to adapt food, and fairly aware of potential problems with pre-prepared sauces and so on.
Is this your experience in general? I know you've written about some really bad cases on your LJ, but I don't know if they're representative or exceptional. I guess it might be relevant that the pubs in question have all been non-chainy places, that weren't particularly busy, where the person who was doing the cooking could pop out for a chat.
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Date: 2012-05-29 01:01 pm (UTC)My boyfriend doesn't eat nuts - he won't explode on contact, or anything exciting, he just violently dislikes them. Trying to find out whether something like a cake actually has nuts deliberately put in it is really quite difficult.
Tangentially, since we moved offices, the wife of one of my colleagues has started joining us for our Friday pub lunch trip (since they live very nearby). She's coeliac, and I've been slightly surprised at the extent to which fairly average pubs have been reasonably clued-up and very obliging. By 'average', I mean a small pub with a limited menu, not a gastropub or a particularly foody place. None of them have had specific gf options on the menu, but thus far they've been most willing to adapt food, and fairly aware of potential problems with pre-prepared sauces and so on.
Is this your experience in general? I know you've written about some really bad cases on your LJ, but I don't know if they're representative or exceptional. I guess it might be relevant that the pubs in question have all been non-chainy places, that weren't particularly busy, where the person who was doing the cooking could pop out for a chat.