I have a problem with throwing away food, especially meat. As far as I'm concerned, some poor animal died so that someone could have steak/pie/meatloaf or whatever for dinner - so it seems wrong to discard perfectly edible meat (or let it go off and then have to discard it).
Plus, in good traditional Chinese fashion, I was raised to eat everything in my bowl (or on my plate) because there are starving people in the next village or whatever.
And that's why, when I bought a potato salad for lunch yesterday and then discovered it was dressed in eczema-exacerbating egg pieces, I ate it anyway. Though I did try to scrape off eggy-looking substances from my potato chunks first.
And then I spent the rest of the day being very very itchy.
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I've eaten terrible things to be polite but I try to draw the line before hand.
You'll never find me in a Greek or Mexican restaurant in the first place because there's nothing there I'll willingly eat.
Poor you allergic to egg. Because potato salad is not excellent without egg!
I am thinking about banishing egg, too. I don't think I really enjoy eating them anymore anyway. Need to replace the nutrients with something less... eggy.
I know quite a few people who won't eat egg. But I am sure it is much worse when you are itchy after.
Hopefully that doesn't happen again.
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Nigel: I love Greek food - but then, I've really only had souvlaki, spannekopita, baklava and Greek salad.
donnasoowho: neither is toast fingers dipped in poached egg...
Antoinette: if it weren't for the allergy, I would have only one problem with egg - battery farming.
Angela: it probably will, as every now and then I still forget to ask whether there's egg in whatever I'm thinking of ordering.
My mother worked in Detroit's Greektown. I never inherited her love of Polish food either.
I must admit I've never understood why, being Chinese, you are allergic to all things chicken (amongst other stuff) because we "usually" eat anything and everything. :) What a bummer - I had to subsist on chicken and fish for many years after dislocating my jaw eating a French roll (couldn't chew beef/pork), so just as well I'm not allergic. At least it's a good excuse to "politely" turn down eating chicken feet at yum char, eh?
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