[ExI] what a treat - eating rocks

[Dave Sill]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Henrique Moraes Machado <
cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Never doubt human stupidity. In Brazil we have some weird laws about
> gluten. This causes some weird stuff like 'doesn't contain gluten' printed
> on salt packages and water bottles.
>

Yeah, that sounds stupid. But if you know someone with a serious gluten
problem--doesn't even have to be celiac--you know that grain makes it way
into unexpected products. I'm sure it's been used as an anti-caking agent
in salt by some producer sometime.

Also other types of weird stuff like packages of frozen fish fillets that
> alerts 'food allergics beware: contains fish'.
>

Yeah, that's pure stupid.

The vast majority of people doesn't seem able to walk and chew gum at the
> same time, like we use to say.
>

Agreed. Not sure there's a fix for that.

-Dave
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