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  1. joelmw
    I'll add to your excellent comments that as they are routinely grown, processed and packaged, most oats actually do end up with gluten in them, which makes them extra dangerous (unless certified gluten-free). But, yes, unfortunately, some things that don't even contain gluten can be problematic.
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    Unless you're a medical professional and you subjected yourself to biopsy before and after eating sourdough bread (or can cite sound scientific data to support your claim), you're not in fact qualified to assert that sourdough bread "doesn't effect my condition". You can talk about your feelings and you can express your opinions (though you illustrate why...
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    I admit to being intrigued and think it is indeed a worthy topic of discussion. It would be nice to discover that there is a process that renders wheat bread truly safe for celiacs. As the links you included note, of course, there isn't. But I think you're giving the article too much credit (yes, arguably we should all know better than to be led astray...
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    I used to trust the staff at the Dallas West End location (and one of the owners was often around), ended up having some bad experiences, not to mention that they've gradually walked back their gluten-free options and disavowed assurances against cross-contamination. I wouldn't feel safe eating there anymore. While we still trusted the West End location...
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    I was so saddened to see the news (on FB, as y'all have mentioned). All things considered, I think they're the best gluten-free restaurant I've ever visited and I love the fact that the location is so close to the Baltimore airport (which happens to be a destination for Southwest). I certainly hope someone continues the business and at least attempts...
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    Good point on the CC. We unloaded stuff for similar reasons--questionable containers, double-dipping, etc. Crazy business this celiac.
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    A coworker just returned from vacationing in Hawaii and brought back a box of Open Original Shared Link to share. Since I miss out on most of the other treats in the office, I was eager to find out if these are gluten-free. The woman I ended up talking to at Hershey customer service walked me through the process of verifying that they are. Just wanted to...
  8. joelmw
    There are fads and ignorance associated with most things everything: not just diet, but lifestyle, spirituality, other cultural and, um, human phenomena. That's just the way it is, people. I can appreciate the catharsis in ranting (I indulge every now and then myself, mostly about politics and horrid drivers, occasionally about food manufacturers and restaurants...
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    I just want to loudly second this. I was diagnosed with celiac disease almost exactly a year ago. Frankly, since I've been gluten-free, I am not sure when I specifically get "glutened" but I can tell you for sure that the cumulative impact of gluten was devastating--extreme fatigue, brain fog, cramps--and quantifiable. I showed marked improvement within...
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    So here was the big ol' email I sent to them in the first place:
  11. joelmw
    We first checked out their restaurant in Open Original Shared Link and have been to one in Open Original Shared Link three or four times (when we're in Indy we pretty much always go there). Theirs may be my favorite gluten-free pizza. Talking to the staff I also get the impression that they take CC seriously. And compared to many other places that offer...
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    Using the Find Me Gluten Free iPhone app, we discovered a regional chain called Open Original Shared Link as we were travelling through Arkansas into Texas to our residence (my wife refuses to consider Texas "home" ) in the DFW metroplex. They have a fairly new gluten-free menu and their staff has supposedly been "Open Original Shared Link." Our experience...
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    ARCHIVED Gluten Free Menus

    joelmw replied to silk's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." Nice. The only place I can recall that had prices on the gluten-free menu is P. F. Changs--and that's because it's incorporated into the "regular" menu. Kudos to them for both practices. The practice of omitting prices is illogical, annoying and somewhat puzzling, especially at restaurants where the...
  14. joelmw
    We'll see about that title. But you'll likely retain it, just 'cause I tend to be intermittent and, yaknow, I've been repressed and all. ("Now we see the violence inherent in the system" etc. etc.) But [ahem] back to the topic. I was in Wal-Mart yesterday and verified the source of my confusion. When we were first checking them out, the Original sauce...
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    That would be awesome. It's long past time. It's not really my thing, but I've often wished it were. I like to think I could do beat poet (like Mike Meyers in "So I Married an Axe Murderer") or some Shatneresque pale-man-speaking-words-over-music abomination. But I have a neglected blog. I won't advertise it, 'cause I just read that's uncool (which,...
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    I see you have a sense of humor so it is much easier for me to accept your advice. So, um, there. I love Joyce and Faulkner and have long been a Blake freak. This should come as no surprise. And I get way to caught up in words and whatnot. Anyways, point taken. KISS is good policy. I obviously need to direct more of this pent up verbal energy...
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    [most humbly and sheepishly, and somewhat askeered] okay [big sigh] Thank you for tracking down the source and reporting the information. And thank you for the winky. It means a lot to me. Seriously. And seriously smiling too. I might have more to say (ha, that's funny: "I might have more to say"; I kill me) later. I feel that I...
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    Eek. I didn't mean to be making an "allegation." But I do recognize (and what's sadder, did recognize) that I kinda was making an allegation. FWIW, my "pretty sure" isn't an understatement (that is, I don't claim certainty) and, as I think I indicated, I'm a big fan of the SBR so I don't mean to in any way disparage. I was just, uh, pretty sure that they...
  19. joelmw
    I'm pretty sure that not all of them are, but several certainly are. And we prefer them to KC Masterpiece anyway. I only recently discovered that preference. So, um, thanks KC Masterpiece--for leading me to Sweet Baby Ray's.
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    I called today and confirmed that the reason Chicken and Wild Rice was removed is because it may have been processed in a facility where it was subject to gluten contamination. Frustrating--and unfortunately lends credence to my paranoia about labeling--but at least there is some consistency (the list, their web site, the absence of explicit "gluten free...
  21. joelmw
    That's the good news. The bad news is that they won't necessarily identify whether the product has been subject to cross-contamination during its manufacture. My wife picked up a can of Progresso Traditional Chicken and Wild Rice because it did not declare wheat in the ingredients. Just to be safe I checked out their web site, which (more good news ...
  22. joelmw

    ARCHIVED Jason's Deli

    joelmw replied to Menic's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    I had eaten there a couple of times since my diagnosis before I saw (I could swear it wasn't on the menus I'd been given before but I may have just missed it) the rather scary disclaimer. I love Jason's, but I'm with you: if a restaurant goes out of their way to tell me that I shouldn't be eating there, I tend to believe them. They're pretty explicit: our...
  23. joelmw
    By no means did I mean to explicitly say or imply that you were lying. I apologize for not being clearer--and that I was a little caught up in my crankiness and frustration. I did not in fact understand that the parenthetical was in the original message from them (and not a note from you) and I appreciate the clarification. I do (and did) see that you specifically...
  24. joelmw
    From what I can tell, the addition of barley and rye are the poster's interpolation and do not reflect any such statement by HV. They could be explicit. They are not. I just called and got the same message (falling back on the FDA and not explicitly including rye or barley). Their statement is unnecessarily lawyerly and vague and, regardless of the contents...
  25. joelmw
    I've only been diagnosed for a couple of months now (I was very sick, tired and close to depression before and am happily improving in health--both physical and mental--since being gluten-free) and this was one of the first threads I read on the forum. I've contemplated replying several times and finally decided today is the day. I'll endeavor to keep it...
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