Assuming is stupid.

[Sagely]

The bags of On the Border tortilla chips you can buy from the store are gluten free, right?

So one would logically assume the chips served at the restaurant would also be gluten free.

NOT SO my friends, not so. I am sitting here having trouble catching my breath with a belly that rivals what I carried around in my 8th month of pregnancy (firm, too) because I just chowed down on two baskets of gluten.

Migraine should hit sometime tomorrow. Which is good, because we have a basketball game. Bouncing balls are awesome for migraines.

[JSWM]

yeah. . .bags of chips are usually baked and the chips at restaurants are usually fried in same oil as gluten items

[prissmom]

 Rule #1  Corn chips #1 ingrediant is WHEAT!!  So always read the ingredients.

Rule #2 when eating out assume that someone in the back is going to mess up and after handling something with gluten they will fix your gluten free food.  So talk to the manager and cook ever single time.  Let them know how serious it is and let them know everything must be cooked in a seperate dish, pan and with a serving spoon that hasn't been used for anything else.

I have even suggested changes that got me a great safe meal.

Stand up for you because no one else will.

I did my share of trusting and within minutes I was in the bathroom so ill I didn't think I would make it home.  So even places I go to all the time I talk to the chef.

[JSWM]

Quoting prissmom:

 Rule #1  Corn chips #1 ingrediant is WHEAT!!  So always read the ingredients.

Rule #2 when eating out assume that someone in the back is going to mess up and after handling something with gluten they will fix your gluten free food.  So talk to the manager and cook ever single time.  Let them know how serious it is and let them know everything must be cooked in a seperate dish, pan and with a serving spoon that hasn't been used for anything else.

I have even suggested changes that got me a great safe meal.

Stand up for you because no one else will.

I did my share of trusting and within minutes I was in the bathroom so ill I didn't think I would make it home.  So even places I go to all the time I talk to the chef.

Totally!!!  I just had this today at lunch!  The GF menu had crabcakes on it and I said "oh really? cuz most crabcakes have a filler with bread crumbs in it, can you double check?"  And sure enough. . .they had wheat. . .thank god I didn't trust it!  Oh a side note I went to Disney a couple months ago and was VERY impressed by their GF awareness!  Even at the quick meal places in the park. . .they give you right to the manager and the manager goes back, cooks your meal themselves, and then personally delivers it right to you. . .amazing!  It was so great not to have to worry!!!!

[prissmom]

I very much want to go back to Disney with my grandson.  I am looking forward to the food there.  I have only heard great things about the GF there.

In larger cities I have been lucky enough to find places that specilize in GF.. mostly pizza places as strange as that sounds.  I have a few places in my small city that I know I can trust and this Fri we are to go to a fish camp that has a speicl GF menu, even fried fish and hush puppies.  Its one of our Celiac support group favorites

[MaMas06]

What about Sushi? I have to assume the spicey sauce
put on top is not GF. and soy sauce too! ugh!