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I don’t know about you but I like to know where my food has been and what is in it. Reading through the ingredient list on some packaged foods these days requires a specialist dictionary and more time than anyone really wants to spend in a supermarket. But I have learnt how important it can be.
My wife is seriously allergic to a few things – especially fish and eggs – and has to check and double check everything before she buys and because of this, I have learnt to do the same. And it is amazing the number of everyday food items that contain something derived from fish.
Bread, however, shouldn’t be one of them.
We bought a bag of bread rolls at our local Co-op. The thoughtfully printed ‘allergy advice’ was interesting to say the least:
“This product contains, or may contain, traces of the following: Nuts, Sesame Seeds, Wheat, Gluten, Barley, Egg, Oats, Lupin, Milk, Mustard, Rye, Soya, Sulphites, Fish, Crustacean, Celery, Molluscs.”
I think you ought to go back and read that again!
Yes – this is bread we are talking about here. Notice that it only ‘may contain’ wheat. Well – with all that other stuff in it there probably isn’t much room for the wheat. Who needs wheat in their bread!
I had an uncle who was a baker but I bet he never made bread with Molluscs. Or Crustacean. Or Fish. Bread just isn’t supposed to have all this in it.
And Lupin. Lupin? What the fuck is Lupin doing in my bread?
Bread with built in fish ?? If only this wonderful product had been around in biblical times, Jesus would’ve had a much easier time of it !!
You should keep a few in your freezer, Andy, for those times when 5,000 pop in for a visit.
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more than likely the bread manufacturer is being quite responsible here and makes other products in the same factory that includes those products so its possible for their equipment to become “contaminated”… hence the “may” part… there is quite a many folks with peanut allergies that have been affected that have successfully sued because of cross contamination situations…
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@Silverback: Except nobody wanted to eat it…. That might have been the Lupins..
@Mr Papa: Oh I understand the reasin fir the list. But Lupins?
Cant really say, but lupins are commonly used in pickles, olives and other items that come in salty type solutions…
and how did I pick this one topic to respond to
okay, back to the support forum…
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