couple of days ago, a woman died of allergy attack at a restaurant she worked at and trusted. She had lethal allergy to milk, and the restaurant was kosher and selling meat, meaning there shouldn't be anything dairy at the kitchen. The story was that they were out of cream—a non-dairy, kosher parve version of which is not hard to come by in Israel—and sent a worker to buy a new one to put on the desserts they serve, a ice-cream which was dairy. The desserts themselves are parve, and only missing the whipped cream, which the restaurant kitchen adds. The woman ordered such dessert and, unaware of the fact the cream was dairy, she ate it. Soon enough, her allergy attack began, and before they magaed to give her a serum against the allergy, she had passed away.
I mentioned the fact it's a kosher restaurant in israel because for some of us people with severe allergies to dairy products sometimes can only have hope in finding something we can eat at kosher b'sari places, since they're the only places we can trust won't cook, fry, or roast anything with something dairy, and israel, because of its jewish majority, is sometimes like heaven for us when it comes to buying foods and sweets, especially thanks to the large presence of vegan-only products manufactured in vegan-only places. All this, and that thing still happens.
If you work in restaurants and you treat someone who tells you they can't have dairy lightly, and don't tell them that either there's the small chance of something happening, or you don't make sure they'll be okay, you might be part killers. If someone asks you for soy milk cream in their coffee, and you don't clean the cup where you make the cream, you're a step closer to committing negligent homicide, and that's on you. We can't just give ourselves shots of adrenaline or even carry that shit with us everywhere we go (especially where wer should be safe) just because you want to get something over with.
And we're tired of you thinking allergy and intolerance are the same. No, not everyone is "a little allergic," no. We're at danger of death. Learn that or don't work in food service. Cheers.
