[Avodah] kitniyot

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

I've said this before but it bares repeating. I was married to someone 
with multiple food allergies. Cooking even at home was always a 
challenge. Going out to eat at someone else's house and giving them the 
list of what yes, what no made that it even harder.
Whenever we had guests, we always asked about food allergies, kashrut 
requirements, and preferences. Compared to allergies, kashrut stuff was 
kid's play.  More than that, I learned that it is perfectly OK to have 
food on the table that not everyone can eat. Any vegetarian who came 
over expecting to be able to eat everything was disappointed.

Not being able to eat rice and having to settle for the five other 
dishes doesn't even make it on my radar. Thinking that one should be 
able to eat everything is a sense of entitlement that I don't accept.

Ben

On 4/14/2017 7:56 AM, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
> Of course there are halachic solutions but it still makes for a very 
> akward situation for parents and children when parents visit a child 
> and can't eat all the food.
>
> You are looking at this from a pure halachic perspceticve but in 
> truth, there is a non-halachic sociologcal perspective here that needs 
> to be addressed as well.