On purpose

And while we were ordering food last night, one of the folks asked if the chicken tenders were breaded* This got my attention because it's usually the first question someone with CD asks, at least in the early stages of the learning curve. I wondered if my companion was recently diagnosed with the World's Most Boring Autoimmune Disorder, but then I saw that he was drinking a Michelob Ultra, which, while "low-carb" (2.6 grams) is still beer and thus is basically liquid poison (to be overly dramatic about it) to the gluten-free community, what with all that malted barley.

His order was for some kind of salad with no crutons and the penny dropped. He doesn't have CD. He's doing Atkins or South Beach or something similar. Some kind of voluntary exile into low-carb, no carb land.

I had forgotten that there are people who will do that by choice. They are ....weird.


*Answer: Of course they are. That's like asking if the cupcakes are frosted. If they weren't breaded, they would have been called "grilled," usually a CD "safe" word.