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>I say "no milk, cheese, yogurt or butter". 'No dairy' to most people means
>'no milk'. When you mention that fact, they look sheepish and say something
>like 'you're right'.
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Yup, you're right. It's gotta be plain and simple. Not everybody has had
the need to be precise about these things, and they can easily make a
dangerous misinterpretation. For us to be understood, we have to explain in
simple but comprehensive terms: no milk, no cheese, no yogurt - nothing
made with any milk products, such as whey, caseine, ...

I recently asked the chef at work if there was any cheese in the Italian
Chicken Soup. He thought about it and said no. I ate it and had to run and
get my antihistamines and my Epipen. I should have asked if there was any
cheese in the soup, also if there was any cheese in any of the
*ingredients* of the soup - turns out there was cheese-filled tortolini in
the soup(!)

Mark Feblowitz