On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:09:21 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2014-02-17 4:40 PM, sf wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:14:43 -0500, "Steve Freides" >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'd give up on hummus, since that basically means chickpeas, and just
> >> consider what bean dips and bean pastes you find interesting and tasty.
> >> Hummus is sometimes served with a topping of tahina, and you could try
> >> that with other thick bean pastes as well.
> >
> > I get that chickpeas are the essence of hummus in the same sense that
> > hominy is the essence of posole, but ordinary mortals get the idea a
> > whole lot faster by using those words when querying about how to make
> > alternatives.
> >
>
>
> Just wondering.... some people seem to be allergic to or sensitive to
> legumes in general. I have to wonder if there is a safe alternative.
> Also wander if it is chick peas she is allergic to or the tahini.
>
It's the chickpeas. The I forget exactly what it was that she ate the
time she broke out in hives, but it wasn't hummus. We figured out
that she even has a contact sensitivity when we ate at a gyro place
recently. We didn't order anything with chickpeas for and they fry
their falafel in completely different oil, but she got a rash around
her mouth anyway. The only thing we could come up with was they were
handing out samples of falafel outside the shop, we'd taken one to
eat. We guess that either we touched her face or she held the hand
the falafel had been in and touched her own face. I took her to the
bathroom and washed the area (plus her hands) with soap, which started
to help immediately - but after we got home her mom put a topical
steroid (I think) on the area anyway and the redness disappeared in a
few hours.


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