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by kazinator 3962 days ago
A big, juicy beef steak is gluten free, and so is the sunny side egg on top of it and the bacon. I like gluten-free! :)

My wife brought home some Glutino brand crackers. They are delicious. (Neither of us care about "gluten free").

If you want to really sock it to the gluten-free movement, you can buy fried gluten in a can. This is an import item you can find it in Chinese grocery stores.

See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_%28food%29

Scroll down a bit.

I've known about and eaten this stuff long before the silly gluten-free fad; not a knee-jerk reaction or anything!

I've also known about people with gluten issues long before the fad. I remember a co-worker telling me about her sensitivity to wheat circa 1991 and that it was the gluten. She was not self-diagnosed either. There was no reason not to take her seriously; though I hadn't heard of it before, it was entirely plausible to have an allergy to a protein in wheat. Today, most of the people who think they have a gluten problem are making it up, and that's what supports "gluten free". However, it's probably helpful to those people who do have the allergy --- assuming the foods are even for real. Half of them probably have gluten! Is this "gluten-free" designation even regulated and enforced?

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>Today, most of the people who think they have a gluten problem are making it up

Citation please? I've yet to meet anyone who was making it up. Most people just don't want to talk to a stranger about their poop.