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Having been a Celiac for seven years and one who travels greater than 75% 
of the time for work, I totally get everyone's frustration with 
restaurants et al.  I especially understand the frustration if you are the 
parent of a Celiac child and are not just protecting your own health but 
feel the responsibility to protect your child.

That said, I think we sometimes are our own worst enemies in pestering 
food vendors the way we do.  Food vendors are in business to provide a 
product that the market demands and make a profit for themselves or their 
shareholders.  If they can accommodate the Celiac community (or the 
diabetic community or the food allergy community), great.  But they really 
have no obligation to.  After watching some of the bickering going on, I 
have thought that if I owned a food company, I would just sprinkle a 
little wheat flour (and ground peanuts, etc.) on all products and state so 
clearly on the label, to obviate the question of whether the product was 
suitable for those groups.  (As a Celiac, I am glad the actual food 
vendors don't think that way, but we need to be careful not to alienate 
them with our pestering).

Anyway, just my two cents worth.  Feel free to flame away!

Fred Fendt

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