✈️ DO YOU HAVE CELIAC DISEASE? A Wheat, Dairy, Nut, or Soy Allergy? | United is Serving a Snack That Contains ALL Of Those!

Travelers beware! Gluten (coeliac) is my worst nightmare. I'm not alone. Up to half the population are now sensitive to one or more of the top 5 problem foods, which are wheat a.k.a. gluten, milk, soy, eggs, and peanuts. On a recent United flight, they were handing every passenger the perfect storm for sensitive souls, a Stroopwaffle. Here's the thing. The main ingredients of a stroopwafel are wheat, milk, soy, and eggs.

Sound familiar? To someone with a food allergy, that's like reading death, destruction, annihilation and obliteration. If they just added peanuts, stroopwaffel would become an allergic Armageddon, and probably be banned by the Geneva Convention.

Now, admittedly, I don't have an English to Dutch dictionary, but if I had to guess, I'd say that Stroop is probably the Dutch word for death. So it's actually the Dutch death waffle. Maybe those sneaky Dutch are trying to head off lawsuits by putting it in the title. I'm on to you Holland people with your Dutch death waffle!

The truth is food allergies like celiac disease, as well as food intolerance is a serious matter. I struggle with eosinophilic esophagitis along with dairy and gluten intolerance.