AIBU or is the owner of this cafe absolutely raving mad? Sick note if requesting gluten free food

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I stumbled upon this facebook page yesterday.

Owner has had enough of people on "faddy diets" and now wants proof of coeliac condition before hw will serve you gluten free food.

His posts are outrageous and really close, if not over the line!

He also demands 5 euro corkage fee for breastfeeding in his cafe. At forst I thought it was a parody account but no.

Read through the page!

I think it's funny! It's clearly a joke

Read the trip advisor posts too......friend who's a dietician posted this on FB .....the comments are worth reading

Thanks for sharing, I've liked it as I reckon it'll hung me a good laugh!

He serves his chips in a wire basket, he should be tarred, feathered and run out of town.

Thank you Soubriquet I think I'm getting there.

I think he'll be going out of business soon. That's usually the downside of being an opinionated twat.

That's ok. It took me a while to learn too

I doubt it, business is booming, they have started opening evenings and there are often queues for lunch.
Shouty vegans have been saying he'll go out of business for a year, but really its just the opposite. We like opinionated twats in that area!

I'm actually amazed that anyone could think he's being serious!!

I once worked with a woman who though 'Alan Partridge' was a real person ......obviously some people take things somewhat literally

Just read it, it's a joke! Can people really not tell?

Step away from the hipster burger on a chopping board and chips in a basket!

Wait until the mumsnet plate brigade get onto him. He's a deadman

I think he's bloody funny.
I'd eat there.

I think the fact people are actually getting offended just feeds the joke and justifies his mocking.

I'd eat there, although I'm one of the old boring farts who wants food served on plates
So many people are now faddy eaters with no real justification.
However, some commenters on there are quite correct. It's not just people with coeliac disease who need to avoid gluten. And he says that gluten intolerance is 'made up'. My GP and NHS dietitian don't agree with that.

Trippy You're still missing the "joke". He isn't actually saying gluten intolerance is made up anywhere as far as I have read on the page. What started the whole thing was a woman asking for gluten-free pancakes but when told they didn't have them, continued to order and eat the normal pancakes. Clearly, therefore, she was not gluten-intolerant at all - so why then make a big thing about it? He is having a go at the sort of customers who want XYZ just "because" and often (as with this woman) even understanding what gluten-free is and why some people genuinely have that need and condition.

YABU

It's a joke

It might be supposed to be a "joke"but it's not remotely funny. I also think he sounds like a dick - and I reckon he really believes that vegans and gf people should cop the fuck on but is couching it as a joke. I used to live round the corner and wouldn't have eaten there just cos he seems to be a dick.

And I'm not a vegan or gf btw.

Also I agree with PP that says he implies gluten intolerance is made up - as he says only people with coeliac disease need to avoid gluten and everything else is a fad.

Trouble is, he may be funny and just joking etc, but all the commenters on his post are then going on to slag off anyone with a genuine intolerance, so it stops being funny and is just one more place on the internet where people are dicks to each other, correcting your/you're and picking on spelling etc.

Posters saying they have autoimmune disease who feel better when they avoid gluten and replies telling them they're making it up and just take a tablet etc. I laughed for a minute and then just got more depressed by all the idiots desperate to put the boot in.

I recently stayed at a country house hotel where the cooking (seven course dinners, wondrous breakfasts) was done by the very smart owners, who got quite heated at how they had run themselves into the ground to produce a delicious seven course vegan dinner for a guest who had said she was vegan, only to find her cheerfully ordering a Full Irish for breakfast the next day because 'the smell was so nice', and how they'd made twenty phonecalls on behalf of another guest who said she couldn't eat gluten to discover whether some minor ingredient used in a dinner was gluten-free, only to see her stuffing herself with soda bread and potato farls at breakfast the next day.

Obviously, one was of looking at it is the customer always being right, but if you knock yourself out to come up with seven courses to suit what you believe is a genuine dietary issue or an ethical position, it's probably a bit galling to see said guest gaily wiring into your rashers or bread a few hours later.

I feel they would have been behind the sick note/commitment to veganism signed in your own blood/whatever idea.

I think he is quite funny and is quite clearly joking (and I say that as a coeliac) but the commenters are posting stupid shit like "our grandparents didn't know what gluten was and they're all fine" when actually no, many people have died or are dying of bowel cancer or serious anaemia, both of which can be caused by coeliac, especially if it's undiagnosed.

His post wasn't offensive, but some of the comments are.

Well exactly - his post may have been a 'joke' but it reinforces myths about food intolerances and allergies and trivialises very real conditions while giving those other posters somewhere to share their stupid uninformed opinions. And obviously, those people who take the piss by being 'vegan' one day and meat eaters the next are also a big problem - and their behaviour makes restaurateurs (sp?) take people with genuine issues less seriously.

Well exactly - his post may have been a 'joke' but it reinforces myths about food intolerances and allergies and trivialises very real conditions while giving those other posters somewhere to share their stupid uninformed opinions. And obviously, those people who take the piss by being 'vegan' one day and meat eaters the next are also a big problem - and their behaviour makes restaurateurs (sp?) take people with genuine issues less seriously.

His initial 'faddy diet' post is actually over a year old, it's only just been highlighted recently.
His August 31st post at 19.26 is fabulously funny.