Food at Potlucks- Am I the only one?
We will be having our XMas Potluck at our park this afternoon and like I did at Thanksgiving, I plan to bring my own food in a tupperware container, it is not that I really have to watch what I eat, I...
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JaxDad wrote:
But what if you were someone like my DW with several severe food allergies?
Literally, someone touching certain foods then handling something she was to eat, or a single drop falling off a shrimp or lobster falling on her meal would be life-threatening.
Not the sort of thing you'd seek out far from home.
Statistics say more than 20 million people have food allergies, some data says 1 in every 13 children under 18 have some form of food allergies.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that people with HEALTH issues (allergies, compromised immune systems, heart issues, etc.) just suck it up and eat at the potluck.
This is about the folks who won't eat at a potluck because they don't trust other people. They don't trust other people to prepare food properly; they don't trust other people to store food properly; they don't trust other people to make good tasting food.
