SC - Complaints at feasts

[catwho at bellsouth.net]

> > If you have posted the listing, you have "covered yourself", to be polite!
> > Because then, if a person eats something they shouldn't, it is their own
> doing.
> > You can be symnpathetic, but you are not at fault!
> >

MNSHO here, but it is the responsibility of the one with the allergy 
to find out what is in the food.  Yes;  it should be expected that 
the cook  post the ingredients list with the names of the dishes 
being prepared.  I have a child with a severe allergy to red dye #40. 
 Fortunately, it wasn't a period food coloring.  However it is 
something that i have to be aware of.  My daughter is eligible for 
free lunches at school (we still haven't figure out how!)  but she 
always takes her lunch because of the fear that something might 
contain a potential allergen and I don't expect the county food 
service to prepare meals around her allergy.  The same holds true of 
my younger daughter who is allergic to pistachios.  No other nuts, 
just pistachios.  I want to know if a dish contains pistachios, but I 
don't expect the cooks to prepare something else to substitute for 
her missing a certain dish.  When she is queen then I would expect 
it.

Melbrigda, always on the look out for a good marriage for her 
daughters.