This Cafe Owner’s Gluten Free Remark Hasn’t Gone Down Well At All
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Whether you’re gluten intolerant or not, many people around the world are happy for cafes to provide for those with gluten-free diets.
But not one Dublin-based cafe owner, who has recently come under fire for telling customers that if they order gluten-free food they need to bring a doctor’s note in order to be served.
The White Moose Cafe recently posted on its Facebook page describing how a woman asked a member of the cafe if they did gluten-free pancakes, but didn’t know what coeliac disease was.
Paul Stenson, owner of The White Moose Cafe [Photo: Facebook/White Moose Cafe]
The full post reads:
“This morning a girl asked us if we did gluten-free pancakes and when we asked her if she was a coeliac, she didn’t even know what the word meant and then proceeded to order regular, gluten-rich pancakes anyway.
“From now on, guests who demand gluten-free food are required to produce a doctor’s note which states that you suffer from coeliac disease.
“Guests following a gluten-free fad, who don’t even know what gluten is, can cop the fuck on and eat regular food like everybody else.”
Unsurprisingly, it’s spread across Facebook like wildfire, gathering more than 32,000 reactions and almost 6,000 shares - and many commenters are not happy.
One woman wrote: “How bloody ignorant of you. Gluten affects a lot more people than coeliacs.
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“I have Hashimotos which even most doctors don’t know how to treat, so I end up having to treat myself, which includes an elimination diet that shows gluten makes me feel like I’ve taken sleeping tablets. Glad restaurants in Australia aren’t this stupid.”
The comment has been liked more than 1,500 times.
Another said: “Next time I am in Dublin I will avoid your cafe like the plague, what obnoxious, uneducated ignorant fools you are.”
In response to the backlash, the Cafe posted again, saying:
“Quite a number of you are saying that yesterday’s post ‘must be a joke’ and that I couldn’t possibly be serious about asking people for doctor’s notes. Let me assure you that it was not a joke and I am deadly serious.
“Just as serious as I was when I said I’d charge a corkage fee for breastfeeding mothers, or when I threatened to give Valium to screaming babies, or even when I promised to shoot vegans dead at point blank range.”
The post continues similarly.
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