"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:27:56 -0700 (PDT), projectile vomit chick
> > wrote:
>
>>On Nov 4, 6:55 pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>> No matter where I dine, I tend not to order things off the menu as is. I
>>> merely look at the menu to see what they offer and then I piece a meal
> -->> together from that.
>>
>>You've probably ate a lot of adulterated food over the years.....
>
> She figured it out long before she was diagnosed. Not that she says
> "I was allergic to this" or that back when she was a kid, but she
> posts her food preferences of "way back when" and they don't equate
> with what a non-allergic person (or someone with textural aversions)
> would say.

I discovered the food allergies maybe 4 years ago. I don't remember exactly
when. I was allergic to milk as a baby but my mom then assumed I had
outgrown it. I don't know. I was allergic to it again, but then after
staying away for it for all those years, the last test revealed that I am no
longer allergic. Still allergic to eggs.

I do have strong aversions to some foods and food textures as does my
brother. Actually I think he is worse off than I am. There are very few
foods he will eat. He won't even LOOK at a mushroom.

Did you see that recent show of Beverly Hill's Chefs (or something similar)?
Christopher Knight (Peter Brady of The Brady Bunch) threw a party for his
wife who has taste and textural issues with foods. He wanted to expand what
she was eating so insisted they include some foods she didn't like. Beans
were one food she didn't like. They did a white chili and the poor woman
pretty much gagged on it. But she did try it.

I happen to like all beans, but I know people who will not eat lima beans or
black eyed peas because of the texture.