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Macbeth
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: Why would anyone eat this crap? |
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Just tried gluten free bread for the first time. There will never be a second time because now I feel like I'm chewing on fine-grain sand. Its nasty. Foul. Words that I can safely use on this forum escape me for how truly gut-wrenchingly awful it actually is. My sense of pity for anyone who HAS to eat this thrice-accursed godforsaken food of the damned. It is triple-sealed taste-free poison with no redeeming features. I've eaten coasters that tasted better...
Why does gluten free have to mean flavour free?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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u seriously cant beat a fresh loaf of bread! 
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LOL
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Thanks for the heads up Macbeth, I tried crap like aifalfa sprouts and wheat germ in the 70s when suck tasting "health" food first reared its ugly head. Between that and Seventh Day Adventist relatives trying to feed me soy based meat substitutes  I have had enough bad food in my life! |
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Macbeth
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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It really is foul. I can still taste the granules.
I'm lead to understand that gluten can cause odd things in aspies, and I recall when my two sons went on a gluten-free diet, one complained ceaselessly for two months, and the other took to stealing margarine and licking it. They had a point. I'm fully prepared to deal with any and all the issues gluten brings if THIS is what I will be reduced to for sustenance.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Macbeth wrote: | It really is foul. I can still taste the granules.
I'm lead to understand that gluten can cause odd things in aspies, and I recall when my two sons went on a gluten-free diet, one complained ceaselessly for two months, and the other took to stealing margarine and licking it. They had a point. I'm fully prepared to deal with any and all the issues gluten brings if THIS is what I will be reduced to for sustenance. |
It doesn't HAVE to taste awful, and I'm sure not all does. |
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SilverProteus
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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 It does seem foul...
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Macbeth
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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LadyMacbeth is also not impressed with it. She likened it to chewing on a teabag. (Which she apparently has tried.)
I spent time in a desert, and came away with a similar taste. Anyone who has eaten sandwiches on the beach should recognise this. After a loaf of this, methinks it will feel like Rommel and Monty just refought El alamein in my gullet. Indy could dig up the ark of the covenant in this crap. Enough of it would bury the pyramids. I suspect they actually mould it out of raw sand.
Its like the fake bread made of plastic in shop windows. It should have labels on it warning that it does not contain bread, and that any similarity to bread is entirely coincidental.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| The Alvarado Bakery in Berkeley bakes gluten free bread that isn't that bad. Edible, at the very least. Problem is, it's only available in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas. Nucoa margarine is gluten free, and isn't bad either. I don't know if you're eating the Atkins carb free bread (yuck) or what. |
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| Macbeth, it sounds like something that would cause your dog to lick its butt to get the taste out of its mouth! |
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Macbeth
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| velodog wrote: | | Macbeth, it sounds like something that would cause your dog to lick its butt to get the taste out of its mouth! |
I could try licking the cats butt.. then he would savagely attack my face, hopefully in the process tearing out my tastebuds so I never have to taste this recycled sawdust again.
I recently quit smoking, and so my sense of taste is starting to come back big style.. this is NOT the sort of thing I should be exposing these newly freshened organs to.. and I suspect that a dozen cigars and a hundred high-tar could never hope to mask the foul anti-taste.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Macbeth wrote: | | velodog wrote: | | Macbeth, it sounds like something that would cause your dog to lick its butt to get the taste out of its mouth! |
I could try licking the cats butt.. then he would savagely attack my face, hopefully in the process tearing out my tastebuds so I never have to taste this recycled sawdust again.
I recently quit smoking, and so my sense of taste is starting to come back big style.. this is NOT the sort of thing I should be exposing these newly freshened organs to.. and I suspect that a dozen cigars and a hundred high-tar could never hope to mask the foul anti-taste. |
LMAO Well you've learned a valuable lesson that you won't forget. |
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| Quote: | | The Alvarado Bakery in Berkeley bakes gluten free bread that isn't that bad. Edible, at the very least. Problem is, it's only available in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas. |
It's up here in Grass Valley and Nevada City. I think it is more common than you think.
Alfala sprouts are not bad food. It's a matter of opinion. To each their own. And as far as gluten free bread, with allergies, you eat what you can. In fact alfala sprouts on a meatless hotdog and Rudi's organic bun is divine. And it's ok by me if it's not your thing as long as you let me have my thing without calling it bad....
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| lotus wrote: | | Quote: | | The Alvarado Bakery in Berkeley bakes gluten free bread that isn't that bad. Edible, at the very least. Problem is, it's only available in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas. |
It's up here in Grass Valley and Nevada City. I think it is more common than you think.
Alfala sprouts are not bad food. It's a matter of opinion. To each their own. And as far as gluten free bread, with allergies, you eat what you can. In fact alfala sprouts on a meatless hotdog and Rudi's organic bun is divine. And it's ok by me if it's not your thing as long as you let me have my thing without calling it bad.... |
As far as eating what you can, I understand since I have a severe shrimp allergy. Enjoy your Soy. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| From what I gather, gluten is a very important part of the breadmaking process, so I don't think I'd like to be anywhere near something that defies nature in that way. |
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