...at Brueggers.

7/26/2012 3:06:41 PM

7/26/2012 3:07:03 PM

Well, do they?

7/26/2012 3:08:40 PM

this gluten free thing is getting out of hand

7/26/2012 3:08:53 PM

Some Bruegger's carry gluten free menu items. I don't see what the is about.

7/26/2012 3:09:03 PM

but it's the new trendy dietary evil

7/26/2012 3:09:59 PM

I don't see what the thread is about.

7/26/2012 3:10:06 PM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576327624238594818.html

7/26/2012 3:11:25 PM

Or... there are people who are legitimately allergic to gluten, and if they can't keep their levels down, they end up getting stomach cancer.

7/26/2012 3:11:48 PM

mmm, sawdust bagel

7/26/2012 3:13:14 PM

gluten allergies give you vagina cancer...not stomach

7/26/2012 3:14:00 PM

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"Or... there are people who are legitimately allergic to gluten, and if they can't keep their levels down, they end up getting stomach cancer. "

Personally if I were that allergic to gluten I wouldn't be in a bagel shop in the first place. Even if they did have some sort of voodoo gluten-free bagel, I wouldn't trust the high schoolers they hire enough to make sure there was no cross-contamination while cooking the bagels.

7/26/2012 3:14:54 PM

Quote :

"Some Bruegger's carry gluten free menu items. I don't see what the is about."

Yeah the thing is people are so taken with fads that they don't even begin to understand what it is they're doing and what it actually means.

Bagels are basically pure gluten. You try to make a bagel without gluten and you might get something edible but I doubt it truly resembles a bagel.

7/26/2012 3:15:42 PM

^^because gluten is something you shake out of a fucking spice jar

7/26/2012 3:16:40 PM

In before lewoods

7/26/2012 3:16:42 PM

Glue allergies are something that didn't exist 10 years ago right?

Im krallum and i approved this message

7/26/2012 3:16:56 PM

Yep, definitely no chance of wheat flour getting into the air and touching other items. Or them boiling the gluten-free bagels in the same water as the regular bagels.

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 3:18 PM. Reason : a]

7/26/2012 3:18:14 PM

Do tell me more about this new allergy.

7/26/2012 3:18:34 PM

Gluten allergies existed but weren't as widely acknowledged: Back in the day, some people just mysteriously got sick and died from eating bread.

7/26/2012 3:18:42 PM

Quote :

"VOODOO GLUTEN-FREE BAGEL"

7/26/2012 3:20:19 PM

do you know how gluten is produced?

7/26/2012 3:20:21 PM

nature finds a way

7/26/2012 3:21:03 PM

Do tell us more about gluten bread that you didn't die from

7/26/2012 3:21:56 PM

99% of gluten allergy sufferers are just fat peope looking for yet another thing to blame for their sedentary existence

7/26/2012 3:22:42 PM

Yes from the process of kneading the bread. So if you end up with some of the wheat flour getting into the area where the mixing of the gluten-free bagel mix is happening, you can end up with gluten in those bagels. Plus I imagine gluten-free bagels wouldn't taste very good.

7/26/2012 3:22:53 PM

Yeah original point is that a gluten free bagel wouldn't even be a bagel.

I also find veggie burgers ridiculous.

7/26/2012 3:24:20 PM

why, what's the definition of bagel?

what about gluten free bread? is that not bread?

7/26/2012 3:26:22 PM

is there something higher than first world problems?

7/26/2012 3:27:23 PM

YOU people are idiots.

7/26/2012 3:27:38 PM

^white people problems

The highest level of 1st world problems

7/26/2012 3:28:06 PM

lol

7/26/2012 3:28:24 PM

hipster problems

7/26/2012 3:30:11 PM

lewoods problems

7/26/2012 3:30:35 PM

7/26/2012 3:30:59 PM

^^ okay that made me laugh

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 3:31 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2012 3:30:59 PM

One of my Fraternity brothers is allergic to gluten. First time I ever heard of it. He would get really sick if he ate gluten. btw, he is very skinny.

7/26/2012 3:31:23 PM

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" original point is that a gluten free bagel wouldn't even be a bagel."

original point is dumb

7/26/2012 3:40:23 PM

there's a pizza bagel joke to be made here, but i'm too apathetic to follow-through

7/26/2012 3:48:24 PM

celiac disease =/ fad diet.

7/26/2012 3:50:22 PM

when pizza's on a bagel, you can't eat pizza ever. because you have a gluten allergy

7/26/2012 3:53:11 PM

people flying in from all angles on this one

7/26/2012 4:02:25 PM

yeah of the set of people that eat a gluten free diet or claim to have celiac disease, only a small fraction of those people actually have celiac disease.

that's why it's perceived as a fad diet. for the majority of folks that eat a gluten free diet, it's a fad diet.

7/26/2012 4:07:32 PM

I know a dude who is severely allergic to wheat gluten. I don't know about this cancer shit, but if he eats, like, one small bite of a pie (including the crust), he'll have a significant reaction.


then, a few years ago, he got pancreatic cancer, and managed to beat the odds on that, but had his pancreas removed..so now he's diabetic and fully insulin dependent, too.



what i want to know is when everybody started getting violently allergic to peanuts. i mean, i guess there were a tiny handful of people who were always allergic to them, but now we have schools flipping a bitch if a kid brings a PB&J sandwich in his lunch.

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 8:43 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2012 8:42:11 PM

pussified states of america

7/26/2012 8:54:42 PM

7/26/2012 9:50:53 PM

Lionheart, do you have gluten free bagels?

7/26/2012 9:54:20 PM

Quote :

"yeah of the set of people that eat a gluten free diet or claim to have celiac disease, only a small fraction of those people actually have celiac disease. that's why it's perceived as a fad diet. for the majority of folks that eat a gluten free diet, it's a fad diet. "

umm.. .stats, please? this has the feeling of baseless. I can't think of anyone who would just arbitrarily not want foods rich in gluten.

7/26/2012 9:55:17 PM

I worked at Auntie Anne's in 2004, during the height of Low Carb. A woman once asked me how many grams of carbs were in a pretzel. So I rifled through the nutrition sheets and came up with the answer ... forty grams. She said with horror, "Oh my God - that's my carbs for the week!"

And I said, "They're made of bread"

7/26/2012 10:09:54 PM

I don't believe a single person who says they are allergic to gluten. 99.9% of the time it's women.

fuck this gluten free bullshit.

7/26/2012 10:45:44 PM

I have a peanut allergy yet I still eat peanut products... normally people might have a mild allergy. A couple of studies actually have shown that completely avoiding allergens might make an allergy worse as your immune system essentially creates antibodies of sorts to mute the allergen.

7/26/2012 10:48:47 PM