Tale Of Aggravation

How A BIG Company Alienated A Whole Lot Of Customers With A Little Change

One of the rules of life that I particularly like is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I am not a big fan of Cadbury Creme Easter Eggs made by the Hershey Company, but a lot of people wait all year for this one special treat.

Some of these people are gluten-intolerant and appreciated more than most that this was a treat they could enjoy.

However, it seems the Cadbury Creme Easter Eggs, which were once safe for these people to eat, now contain WHEAT!

Ya gotta ask why.

I can't imagine they made such a significant change in quality that it was worth alienating some of their most loyal customers!

NOTE: Adding wheat or gluten to a product will NEVER EVER add even one single customer. Not even one. Not ever. However, adding wheat or gluten to a product is guaranteed to drive thousands of customers away because the formerly safe product is now toxic to their systems.

Banning Incandescent Bulbs Is A BAD Idea

Today it was announced that the Philippines will phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010. Canada and Australia have already made similar legislation. Even here is California we are headed that way.

While I think encouraging the use of energy efficient bulbs is great, the outright banning of incandescent bulbs is just plain wrong.

Why? Because tens - maybe hundreds - of thousands of people are adversely affected by fluorescent light. These people will essentially be confined to their homes, and if they run out of bulbs because they didn't stockpile enough, they will sit at home in the dark.

You probably are not even aware of these people unless you know one personally because they already cannot go shopping for clothes or groceries or anything else, nor can they go into any other public building because they all use fluorescent lighting. Most of them cannot work for the same reason.

The Western world must curb its energy use, but the outright banning of the incandescent bulb is NOT the way to do it.

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Tale of Victory at My Baptism!

I have learned that when God hits me over the head and says to do something, it is wise to do it. So during church a couple of weeks age when He said I should be baptised the following Saturday at the already scheduled event, I found the associate pastor between services and put my name on the list.

The event was at the home of a family that has a pool with a (blessedly!) heated jacuzzi. Hamburgers and drinks were provided and everyone was to bring something to share.

There was no way anything there would not be cross-contaminated, so I took my own salad and some Lay's Stax (the ONLY safe chip) and a bag of chips to share.

I ate my food and they ate their food and everyone was happy! Furthermore I did not get sick!

It was a wonderful experience.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and this year it also happens to be my birthday. Given that my kitchen is not very functional right now and that I do not ever enjoy cooking, I thought about just going out for Thanksgiving dinner. I really just do not want to spend my entire birthday doing something I really don't like to do.

However, the likelihood of finding any place that would prepare food safe for me to eat is probably a big fat zero, so I guess I will have to stay home and deal with it.

Sigh.

Tale of Ecstacy?

There is a topic over at the Celiac.com Forum about the possibility that Starbucks may introduce gluten-free brownies! Brownies! As you can imagine, a whole lotta people would like to see this happen.

If you are one of those people, here is a phone number to let Starbucks know what you think.

1 800 235-2883 X0

Hark! I think I hear the Hallelujah chorus!

Evacuation Woes

This week in San Diego County somewhere around half a million people were evacuated from the paths of several wildfires. They went wherever they could go - relatives, shelters, hotels, etc.

If you are on any kind of dietary restrictions, you kind of have to bring your own food, and enough of it to last until you are able to get back home - if your home is still there. The shelters only accept pre-packaged, professionally prepared (not home-made) donated food. I understand completely why they do that, but it puts some people in a position of bring your own, buy your own somewhere else, or do without.

Praise The Lord that I did not have to evacuate. I am still learning a lot about this gluten-intolerance stuff and I guess one of the things I am realizing is that I had better prepare an evacuation kit that contains stuff I can eat!