• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Without knowing your location many if not most restaurants in US will only allow allergy meals be delivered by a manager. When I worked Buffalo Wild Nuggets the manager would have to prepare and deliver the allergy meal. It keeps the customers more honest when it isn’t just a server taking the blame.

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      Yeah, US, It’s super rare for her to be taken seriously. I don’t think we’ve had a manager come out for an allergy in 8 years now and that was vacation at Disney.

      More often, if they try, they’ll send the waitstaff back out to complain that she can’t have the meal because there are eggs in this or that when she was clear about it being milk, they want to tie it into dairy and for some unknown reason, eggs are considered dairy.

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        Yeah, why ARE eggs dairy? Just because milk products and eggs are both refrigerated? (in the U.S.)

        AI slop has frustrated me in my search to find out. I don’t need 100 hastily-generated pages telling me that eggs aren’t actually dairy. I want to know why they are in the dairy category!

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          Eggs are not dairy, that’s why you can’t find it.

          Unless you are using some esoteric definition of dairy that I’m not aware of.

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            I’m sure that’s the case now, but I’m curious why it started. Is that not the case in non-western countries?

            I wouldn’t think that there’s anything about dairy cow ranching that specifically lends itself to also raising egg hens, but I’m no farmer!

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              It’s fairly common in my neck of the woods for ranchers to also have a few chicken houses, but I doubt that’s the reason the two are conflated. But my area is one of the major chicken farming areas in the state.

              I think it’s just people assuming they’re related because they’re in the same section of the store, but really that’s just so they don’t have to have a separate cooling setup just for eggs.

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                Maybe before supermarkets, eggs and milk were the main items being refrigerated in the grocery store. Meat would have come from a butcher until the 50s or 60s, I think? (my back hurts, but not THAT much)

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                  Eggs actually don’t need to be refrigerated outside of the US. The reason why we have to is because the government requires eggs to be washed so they lose the protective coating that prevents them from going bad quickly.

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                    Yeah, I alluded to that in my original comment. I don’t know if bleaching the shell is an issue other than for storage but it wouldn’t surprise me.

                    It is sad how much we’ve allowed Agribusiness to decide what we eat and how we live.

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          Best I can tell, and that’s not with much authority, the people who made the US food pyramid put them together because they were stored in the same place in the grocery store. And it was the pyramid that was seen as a source of authority. From every other angle the don’t line up.