allergies

We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!

every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with __llergies_ to dairy and wheat__heese and bread basically__ut also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed __llergies,_ I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could__e strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy__ome of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread__nd I would__e liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters_ fucked-up relationship with food.

My doctor has given me as strong an antihistamine as she is allowed to prescribe, but even that does nothing for the itching and swelling. The moment a grain of pollen enters the keep, I begin to tomato, and after two minutes of being exposed to the Ejaculateum Arboratoeaea, I am lying on the ground with my tongue lolling out of the side of my mouth.I am heartily glad that the trees and plants are still interested in copulatory activities; I only wish they would be so good as to keep their sperm away from my face. Do not pretend that pollen is anything else; it transfers haploid male genetic material and sullies the bedclothes unmercifully.

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After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.