Excuse Me, Waiter.....There Appears to be ONIONS in my meal!
The whole social nicety of going out to eat turns into a battleground if you are an unlucky person with allergies or sensitivities. Let me pain the picture of a recent restaurant interaction..... I am sitting at a table across from my mother. Our conversation is going well and we are going to go to one of our favorite movie events after eating (Rifftrax Live for the win!). I order a Cobb Salad without tomatoes or onions. Now since I have IBS, my sensitivities differ from others. Some reading this may be thinking - I WISH that was all I had to ask for off of a salad. But I digress....either one of those items would mean that I don't get to last through the movie due to a flare-up. After ordering, we go back to our conversation. A few minutes pass by when the manager (not the server) comes up to our table and asks me, "The no tomatoes or onions thing? Is that an allergy or just a general you don't like it?" Now this gentleman didn't mean to irk me with his...