What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.

Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"

I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.

Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.

@aredridel

I really want to know if I was born this way or if it is caused by what foods I ate when I was young?

My husband can't tolerate apple peels. Just the peels, the inside is fine. I wonder what the strangest food allergy must be?

@futurebird @aredridel
Has he ever tried an Apple straight from a tree in the garden?

Just wondering if it's actually the peel or some of the bug killers or preserving agents farm grown and store bought apples are covered in.

A former colleague left a home grown and an imported apple next to each other on the window sil. It only took a day or two for the home grown apple to shrivel in and start rotting, where as a few weeks later the imported one still looked fresh. Though when he cut it in half, the inside felt like cardboard. His conclusion, the imported one was so covered in chemicals that even bacteria refuse to eat it.