One thing I am very thankful for is that we don’t have very many food allergies in our family. Our daughter-in-law was diagnosed with both lactose and gluten intolerance earlier this year, but those diagnoses were determined to be false, so she can eat what ever she wishes. Our daughter is allergic to capers, but that doesn’t impede her eating at all.
I was fascinated to read about a Minnesota dairy farm that has specially bred cows that produce milk that many people with lactose intolerance can drink. I was also glad to read that area schools are starting to use the milk for their students. Here is the Fargo Forum article.
I guess this is one way genetic engineering can be quite helpful. I can’t imagine not being able to consume dairy. I also wonder why we hear so much more about food allergies now than we did years ago. Are people just more sensitive, or weren’t food allergies in the news back in the day?
Any food allergies in your family? When was the last time you ate capers? Make up some goofy conspiracy theories for the upswing in food allergies?
Trail Baboon 
My wife has a gluten intolerance. It’s inconvenient because she loves pasta, bread, and such. So I cook two pots of pasta each spaghetti night, don’t make bread, cookies, cake, or rolls any more (not a big deal, I can do without the extra carbs anyway). Dining out is a bit restrictive. The first filter I use when searching for a place to eat on TripAdvisor is to click the “gluten-free options” box.
I ate capers a month or two ago. I was making some sort of soup or stew, just improvising, saw the half-bottle of capers, and figured why not. I’m not a fan of them, and have only used them in specific recipes a handful of times in 46 years of cooking.
I think RFK Jr. is responsible for the uptick in food allergies. He plotted to get Trump re-elected, then coerced Trump into nominating him for HHS secretary. Once in, he’ll magically reverse the uptrend in food allergies by requiring (at a price of course!) food manufactures to put a special additive he invented into all their products, therefore neutralizing allergens and making America great “again” by allowing peanut farmers to quadruple their production overnight and catapult America into such a lead in the economic world war that China will give up trying, put the kibosh on Russia, and start importing American peanuts by the megaton for peanut sauce and making their version of peanut butter, which will go great with soy sauce on bread.
Oh, and in that process, RFK will become the richest man in the world (because of selling his secret food additive to all in the food industry), send Elon Musk to Mars in Musk’s first test rocket to the planet, and become the de facto ruler of the country.
Chris in Owatonna
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Wow! I think you should write a book…
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As a matter of fact . . . . . . . .
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We used to grow hops that grew up our deck and the pergola. Our daughter brushed up against them once and broke out in a rash, and took that as a sign that she should never drink beer. I don’t know if hops and capers are related.
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I was given the turkey carcass from our Thanksgiving feast. Today I made a large pot of rich turkey broth. Tomorrow I’ll split it in two and make a batch of Turkey Mulligatawny Soup and another of Renee’s Chipotle Turkey Chowder.
I love the turkey leftovers. Tonight’s leftover dinner included dressing, butternut squash barley salad, green beans with almonds, cranberry sauce, and a wild rice risotto, and lots of turkey gravy.
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Aliens. Clearly aliens have caused any uptake in food allergies. I also wonder if food allergies really are on the uptake — maybe we hear about them more now because we hear more about everything now. Or because people just didn’t know they had food allergies and just suffered. And as a species we live longer these days.
Capers. I can’t remember the last time I had capers. It most likely would’ve been out and about because I don’t think I have ever cooked with capers. Nothing personal against them they just don’t come up all that often in recipes that I’m using.
No allergies that I know of in the immediate family. Food allergies that is. I avoid pineapple and pineapple juice because they don’t seem to agree with me. I’ve never thought of it as an allergy, but I suppose it might be classified that way. It’s been an issue most of my life.
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Or this one:
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one day i woke up and i had lactose and gluten intolerence. no family history no past experience with it . it just was.
eating ice cream beam cruel and unusual punishment, bread put the vice grips of life into my neck and shoulder blades. pizza is the perfect storm with both intolerances combining to leave me on my back on the floor unable to participate in anything other than massage gun moments to try rejoining the world.
im reasonably certain this is caused by not wearing blue blockers when on my computer screen. its the only logical conclusion. that or having one of my chinese trips invilved where when i was asleep they bombarded me with alpha and gamma rays that sucked all the vitamin x out of my body leaving me vulnerable to effects of milk fat and grains that have had gmo’s introduced to make big bisiness more profitable and to allow large corporate farms to eliminate family farms due to simplified farming practices at the cost of human consumption.
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My Uncle Alvin was allergic to fresh strawberries and would break out in a horrible rash if he ate them, but that didn’t stop him from gorging on them when the strawberries from Aunt Elaine’s garden were ripe.
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Food alergies are produced by recorded soundwaves.
Prior to Edison’s 1877 invention of the phonograph, any sound made was gone the instant it was heard.
Yes, it might be duplicated by the hearer but not precisely. No cow mooos are identical nor were human efforts to moo along precisely the same. Technology has overcome that inhibition. Especially is this so with recorded music. The progress in sound reproduction is exemplified in the lip-syncing on American Bandstand. Consuming by listening to reproduced sound has affected the human brain which, in turn has affected our immune and digestive systems. Can adverse reactions be denied when hearing Who Let The Dogs Out?! and Baby Shark?
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More proof of the dramatic effect of horrible recorded music on bodies.
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Snort!
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No real allergies – I’ve been told I have a gluten intolerance, but I can’t tell the difference when I go gluten free, so I haven’t been doing that. I remember having a childhood friend who was allergic to CHOCOLATE, and I felt so sorry for her…
I had a jar of capers once, used them in the recipes that called for them, and tossed the rest when we moved here, have never replaced them! Got nothing against them, and capers do last seemingly forever.
If I come up with a good theory, I’ll let you know…
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Food allergies didn’t come up much in my family. My mother said she was allergic to strawberries in her later years. Not sure if it was a genuine allergy or an intolerance. She often made angel food cake with strawberries when my siter and I were kids, so I don’t think she had a problem with them then. Peppers gave her problems too.
I was told when I was a baby I had bouts of eczema, until a relative advised my mother to stop giving me eggs. She did, and the eczema cleared up. Eggs don’t bother me now though. No food allergies that I’m aware of. I might have an intolerance for folic acid, but don’t know for sure.
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No intolerance or allergies to any foods that I’m aware of.
I use capers with some regularity. I love them in potato salad made with new potatoes, red onion, capers, parsley, olive oil and lemon juice. So simple, and so good. Chicken Piccata is another favorite. An easy way to kick simple dishes up a notch.
I’d rather not contribute to the already crowded field of conspiracy theories. Not that I have any ideas in that regard that are the least bit interesting, but if I did, I’d keep them to myself.
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Capers and sun-dried tomatoes in oil are two pantry staples I try to always have on hand.
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Food allergies are probably the result of the contamination of the food supply by various additives that weren’t in the food supply, or used to package the food supply, a hundred years ago. But it will probably take a century or two to discover the culprits.
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