Oh no! Not the peanut sauce!

[cjsmith]

The other day I went to a Thai restaurant, and a little while after coming home I

EUPHEMISM ALERT

"didn't feel well".

END OF EUPHEMISM

I figured I ate way too much way too fast or something. Sadly, I no longer think that was it. Today I made some rice and put a bit of leftover Thai peanut sauce on it. Shortly afterward, I [euphemism here].

This time it was definitely the peanut sauce. I am going to be bummed if this keeps happening every time I try to eat peanut sauce! I LIKE peanut sauce! That's the whole point of satay, isn't it? Carrying that scrumptious sauce into the mouth? (palecur, I can't hear you la la la la.)

Maybe it's just the way that particular place makes it. I can hope.

Comments

[elflet.livejournal.com]

You might ask if they use any fish sauce in the making of the peanut sauce. It's pretty likely.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That would explain a *lot*. Dang.

[elflet.livejournal.com]

I always have to ask because some places use coconut milk in their peanut sauce. Since most canned coconut milk is heavily treated with sulfites, I have to avoid it (nuless I can check the label and verify it's OK.)

Given how my allergies have been escalating of late, I'm having to be extra careful.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Food sensitivities/allergies are a royal pain in the butt. Everybody thinks it's so cool to make a fancy schmancy sauce with 1.7 million ingredients, all but two of which are invisible in the final product, and blammo!, suddenly people can't eat it. Surprise.

Every so often I get to feeling sorry for myself because fish shows up in a bunch of weird TOTALLY UNNECESSARY places, and then I remember the guy I met once who was allergic to corn. All forms of corn: corn starch, high fructose corn syrup... everything. He could drink ONE cola (Jolt is still sweetened with sugar) and eat ONE brand of pasta and I don't even know what else. In the US, corn is one of the most ubiquitous foods. When I think of him I don't feel too sorry for myself any more.

[elflet.livejournal.com]

I know the same guy. I also have a camper (at the summer camp where I cook for a week) who is allergic to corn, and that week is the only time she gets to eat dessert (because I make special things for her.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Corn is downright oppressive.