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   > CP wrote --   
   >> I came down fr breakfast & there was my meal from the night bhefore, at my   
   > place at the kitchen nook's table, still chilled from the fridge.   
   > I don't think that ever happened to me.   
   >>> chew the cracker once or twice and immediately wash it down with champagne.   
   > That is only done to not offend the host.   
   >> I would simply tell the host, "I'm sorry; I'm sure it's good, but I just   
   >can't eat it; I don't getr anaphylaxis, so it's not technically amn allergy --   
   > more a severe food intolerance." (only if they insist on quizzing me)   
   > I was always told to simply take a bite, not to offend the host/hostess   
   > and go on with the meal.   
      
   Mt family bever visited anywhere for meals, so that's a lesson that I didn't    
   need to learn.  On my own, I've figured out how to not offend, yet not eat    
   whaqy I won't/don't.   
      
   & without lying. . . I'm polite & all, & do all I9 can not to give offense,    
   bnut neither do Io concern myself withthose who insist on TAKING offense..   
      
   I was raised to not take things that don't belong to me, so if I see an   
   offense or resentment. . .   
      
   I also disagree with the "Finders Keepers" philosophy. If it isbn't ine, I    
   don't take it -- except for unidentifiable cash-only (e.g. $20 bill on the    
   ground); I call those gifts from the universe. . .   
      
   Natch, if I can figure out a way to link it to the correct owner, I would do    
   so. . .   
      
   MC, over speakers, "Mr. Johnson here says he los a wallet containing $400, &   
   is offering $50 for its safe return."   
      
   Voice in the back of the hall: "I'll give $100 reward!"   
      
   > There was only one time I had any other reaction to food or drink.   
   > It was a covered dish dinner at church and I ate or drank something that   
   > caused me to itch all over and had to leave.   
      
   So many ingredients -- might have been hidden in a commercial preparation, so    
   identifying the item wouldn't tell you the exact thing to beware of, outside   
   of that particular bottle of something. . .   
      
   Food sensitivities are no minor thing. My courtesy cousin is allergic to most   
   foods, cross categories. True story, happemned in Ontario: a woman didn't   
   believe her husband's cvlaim  of being allergic to salmon, as that sounded   
   ridiculous to her, so she made a  beef meatloaf & mixed in a small amount of   
   salmon just to givew him the old,  "Hah! Caught you in your BS!" treatment   
   later.   
      
   Yup, anaphylaxis & he died.   
      
   She was not charged.   
      
   >> I'm an adult; I eat what I like & I like what I eat.   
   > As a bachelor I eat only what I like.    
      
   There you go, & why shouldn't you?   
      
   I'm odd, like my dad -- we're of the philosophy that it doesn't matter if you    
   just ate "that" earlier or yesterday, if you like it -- I can eat something I    
   like every day, if I were so inclined, or it came up that way. . .   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
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