pbheather
Well-Known Member
This is just kind of a rant. I'm not real happy with the Mexican restaurant in my town.
Last night, I went to the Mexican restaurant, and with my food allergies, it's a little hard to eat out. With that restaurant, it was the tomato and dairy allergies. Everything is either covered in cheese, tomatoes, or both. So, I decided to get a simple chicken dish with rice.
The guy who took my party's orders seemed to understand that no tomatoes could touch any of the food, and if the salad that came with the dish had tomatoes to please exclude the tomatoes. He came back a few moments later and told me that there is tomato paste in the rice, so I told them I don't want it.
Our actual waiter had with our food, and I saw tomatoes on the salad. I sent it back, explaining no tomatoes can touch ANY of the food, or I will be very sick. He brought the food back a few moments later, and I started eating.
The few pieces of chicken didn't fill me up, so I tried some of my mother's dish, which was some kind of corn tortilla thing around shredded chicken and bell peppers. IT was really, really good. When I felt the usual signs of an anaphalactic reaction (my throat closes up real low, like down by my voice box), I took a few drinks of water to see if it was real, then told my mother I had to go to the ER.
I took my EpiPen along the way. It was then that I remembered noticing something red on the salad, and realized that the waiter had just taken the tomatoes off the food, and had brought the same plate back. Two hours later, sore hips from the steroid and antihistamine injections, and basically high, I was back at my apartment and went to bed.
Has anyone else had this experience? It frustrates me all to hell that people just don't understand at a restaurant that when I say I can't eat it, not that I don't like it, I really can't eat it. They probably just think I'm being picky. I hate it, and I'm seriously thinking of never going out again, or bringing my own food, as I am in the dating field right now. I don't like feeling like crap, or being all out of it and shaky because of medication counteracting the reaction.
Last night, I went to the Mexican restaurant, and with my food allergies, it's a little hard to eat out. With that restaurant, it was the tomato and dairy allergies. Everything is either covered in cheese, tomatoes, or both. So, I decided to get a simple chicken dish with rice.
The guy who took my party's orders seemed to understand that no tomatoes could touch any of the food, and if the salad that came with the dish had tomatoes to please exclude the tomatoes. He came back a few moments later and told me that there is tomato paste in the rice, so I told them I don't want it.
Our actual waiter had with our food, and I saw tomatoes on the salad. I sent it back, explaining no tomatoes can touch ANY of the food, or I will be very sick. He brought the food back a few moments later, and I started eating.
The few pieces of chicken didn't fill me up, so I tried some of my mother's dish, which was some kind of corn tortilla thing around shredded chicken and bell peppers. IT was really, really good. When I felt the usual signs of an anaphalactic reaction (my throat closes up real low, like down by my voice box), I took a few drinks of water to see if it was real, then told my mother I had to go to the ER.
I took my EpiPen along the way. It was then that I remembered noticing something red on the salad, and realized that the waiter had just taken the tomatoes off the food, and had brought the same plate back. Two hours later, sore hips from the steroid and antihistamine injections, and basically high, I was back at my apartment and went to bed.
Has anyone else had this experience? It frustrates me all to hell that people just don't understand at a restaurant that when I say I can't eat it, not that I don't like it, I really can't eat it. They probably just think I'm being picky. I hate it, and I'm seriously thinking of never going out again, or bringing my own food, as I am in the dating field right now. I don't like feeling like crap, or being all out of it and shaky because of medication counteracting the reaction.