From: "Ricciarini, Amanda (NYC-ME)" <[log in to unmask]>

> Made me laugh. It's like when I go to a restaurant and say, "Does the pasta have ANY dairy in it? I am very allergic",
> and they say, "only a little bit of cheese. But very little". I guess you can't blame them---they just don't get it.

A somewhat more effective statement is "if my meal as much as comes in contact with any milk-related product, in 10 minutes you would have paramedics giving me CPR.  By the way, I am not sure that the other patrons would get the right message..."

> By the way Mrk, are your ears itching today? All kinds of nice things are being said about you on
> the eczema list.  

Mental note to self: shut off imagination before reading this list.