Does Anybody Else Have This Weird Issue With Wheat?

[mytummyhurts]

I have this weird mental issue regarding wheat as a decoration. Being that it's fall and I'm shopping for decorations, they have those cute little wheat stalks. And I like the way they look. But I can't help thinking they are "evil" and I can't bring myself to buy them like I'm somehow being untrue to my celiac self. (Although I know they would cause me no harm just sitting there.)

Does anybody have this problem?

[neesee]

Wow, that's funny. I won't decorate with anything the represents wheat either.

neesee

[Juliebove]

It's possible they could do you harm. I don't buy the wheat based cat litter because daughter is allergic to wheat. I am not allergic to wheat but I am allergic to dairy and seeing and smelling giant wheels of cheese or smelling cheese being grated in a restaurant makes me feel nauseaus. I am also allergic to eggs and dislike having to buy them for my husband who goes through a carton every week or so.

[spunky]

YES! I've seen many nice wheat-weavings, decorations, etc., and these days they just make me cringe!!!!

I seriously doubt this could be harmful in anyway, it must just be psychological association. I don't like looking at them, myself, though.

[RiceGuy]

Some colorful "Indian corn" might be a good alternative.

Seems to me, if CC can occur because of storage bins and such, then the wheat stalks could do the same. I for one wouldn't have that stuff around me. So I don't think it's an "issue" to avoid wheat decorations.

[Blessings]

This Sunday the Pastor said something in his sermon about wheat. Afterwards he jokingly apologizeed for the wheat thing. Life is getting better when I can make fun of gluten-free.

God bless,

Vicky

[home-based-mom]

I bought one last year as a visual aid for showing the kids at church what a sheaf of wheat looked like when I was telling them the story of Joseph's dream of his brothers' sheaves of wheat bowing down to his sheaf of wheat.

I won't do that again.

In spite of everything it got me - not badly but it got me nevertheless.

I say leave it in the store.

[Nancym]

Yeah, I see wheat as a symbol of wrongness. To me, it isn't pretty or decorative.

[bakingbarb]

I have had a wheat bouquet for awhile now. I plucked it myself growing wild in Bend Oregon and it is in my room. I have always loved the way it looks and I just never thought abut taking it down until now. It will remain for now, its pretty.

[oceangirl]

In one of my "lives" I am a floral designer and I learned a lesson the hard way about wheat stalks. Of course, I was working with a lot of them in a relatively closed environment but, yippee kii yay- it sucked. I'd chuck it. For now, my "wheat symbol" is a cup and saucer my daughter found for me at a thrift shop with a stalk of wheat as the design.

lisa