Today, I had a serious allergic reaction to the food I ate at a Chinese restaurant that supposedly didn't contain peanuts. According to my waitress, peanut oil "doesn't count". FML
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Black Friday
70% off something you didn't need, a stampede and a cart that crashes at checkout. Thanks, Black Friday.
Same thing different taste
Today, at my work in a self-service chinese restaurant, a lady came up to me, pointed to the plate she loaded with honey king prawns, and yelled at me because she was allergic to seafood. She demanded a refund and another plate. Everything is clearly labeled. FML
Today, I had an asthma attack. I grabbed my inhaler and found peanut butter on it. I'm extremely allergic to peanuts. FML
Today, I ordered Chinese and told them I was allergic to eggs. I took a bite and I found some egg, quickly spat it out and took my antihistamines. When I returned with it and complained about my potential demise, they gave me a free orange to apologise. I'm allergic to oranges. FML
Today, at work a customer bitched me out for not explicitly telling her that our peanut butter pancakes contain real peanut butter. She's threatening to sue because she's allergic to peanuts. FML
Today, my friend took our prank war too far when he secretly added peanuts to my food. I have a peanut allergy. FML
Criminal Minds
Today, I had to go to the ER because of a terrible allergic reaction I had to the cookies my "friend" made for me. She assured me several times that there were no nuts in them. Turns out, she put nuts in them on purpose, to see whether or not I was really allergic. FML
Call the cops!
Today, my boyfriend’s mom fed me a new dish containing peanuts, knowing full well I’m severely allergic. According to her, her ancestors “cured” allergies by exposing the person to the allergen. I went into anaphylactic shock. FML
Today, I had four separate allergic reactions. The first from the pillow at the hotel I was staying at, the second and third from two separate ice cream parlors due to cross-contamination, and the fourth from peanut dust in the air on the plane ride home from my vacation. FML
Today, a customer had an allergic reaction to the almonds in the sundae I made for her. We're supposed to put the almonds on unless the customer asks otherwise. She complained to my boss that I'd poisoned her. FML
Today, I had a food allergy test done because of an ugly acne upswing, and after over a year of vegetarianism, I find out that I'm allergic to soy. FML
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Ligerie 0
What a Bitch! Unless she truly didn't know. Now she is sitting at home wondering what baby oil is made of.
Calamity157 0
that sucks you shouldve complained for free food :p
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fiicere 5
I'm tempted to call a FAKE on this one, as anyone who has peanut allergies knows to stay away from chinese food. Everything has peanut oil in it... My allergic friend won't ever eat chinese, even in really fancy restaurant. You should sue the place. Not to be one of those whiny bastards who sues everyone, but that's really, really dangerous. I've got good friends who could die from that kind of stupid stunt.
mikew85 0
Hopefully you punched her in her lying ***** mouth.
celiba_fml 0
a friend of mine is allergic to tomatoes and a waiter once claimed that thousand island sauce doesn't contain any tomatoes.. She didn't touch it of course..
chanman 0
Since this is a Chinese restaurant, I'm pretty sure English would not have been her first language. First of all, "doesn't count" I'm pretty sure was the only she knew how to say "that's not what you said" or something along those lines. It is a little your fault (but not enough that I clicked YDI) for not saying "peanut products", and just "peanuts", and her English was probably poor so asking you to clarify would've been a hassle. You could've just asked because you didn't like the actual nut. FYL.
CLICKHEREx 0
There is a new treatment now available, which desensitises your system to allergic reactions to small quantities of nuts; it was on today's news, here in Australia, so check it out.
maria12_fml 0
First of all i'd like to say that I love Chinese food. But Asians who don't completly understand English are idiots! Once I was going to the a&w drivethrough and asked the woman at the window (who was Asian) if the hamburgers were frozen then cooked. I already knew but I felt like talking. Anyway, the girl at the window was like " oh no, no, no they no frozen they fresh, fresh." all I had to say after was 'that stupid Asian!' ( I didn't actually say that, just in my head)
HPJediKnight 0
oh my god! i actually had something really similar happen to me. my family and i were at a resturaunt while on vacation, and the waitress offered my brother a cookie, because his kids meal came with one. thinking that she was being nice, she gave one to me too. naturally, we asked what kind of cookie it was, and she went back to the kitchen to check. she told us it was just a regular chocolate chip, no nuts. turns out it wasn't. i wasn't even in the resturaunt when i reacted, because we had saved the cookies for the ride home. so there we were on the thruway and i start getting nautious and covered in hives, the works. turns out it was a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie. so lucky me, i get to be picked up by an amubulence in the middle of the thruway. on a stretcher. needless to say, we got some money out of the deal. i encourage you to do the same. although, i found out last year at a FAAN meeting that in asian countries, "allergy" translates as "intolerance" so if your waitress didn't speak very good english, that may be part of the problem.
tehredbaran 0
That's a perfectly legitimate reason to sue their asses out of business. Tell her you'll see her in court.
chocolatecandy14 0
That reminds me of the time I went to Mandarin and had a brownie there. It had nuts in it and there was no warning sign of it. I'm not allergic, but I felt I needed to mention it to someone who worked there. So when we got the bill, I put a comment on the feedback card basically saying " You might want to put lables buy food that contains nuts before someone sues your ass."
matt97_fml 0
Meh, I've had deathly allergic reactions to peanuts and have never had a problem with stuff containing peanut oil. Some people just respond differently to it I guess.