I saw this article from MSNBC/Associated Press about business booming for gluten-free products. The first sentence is:
“Mary Burgdorff said she cried the first time she walked into Molly’s Gluten-Free Bakery in Pewaukee, Wis., because she’d found treats her son could eat without getting sick.”
Only a celiac sufferer could understand this feeling. I remember my first (almost) cry. I was in New Zealand wandering around Queenstown and glanced at a menu from a restaurant on the street. “Gluten-free pizza”. My heart fluttered but I didn’t really believe it. I went in to check it out. Yes, their pizza was gluten-free. It was my first piece of pizza in 2 years. It was pretty good, too.
As I’ve traveled around the world to a few places I have also felt this feeling upon finding the simplest things. When I found rice cakes in a little shop on the island of Andros in Greece I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Finding gluten-free cassava crackers in the Dominican Republic was another delicious moment.
What have you cried over?
Finding two huge gluten-free aisles in Harvest House, a health food store in Concord, California. My head was spinning and I was completely overwhelmed by it.
I’ve also teared up over GF fish n’ chips in Portland, GF sandwich at a coffeehouse there, and finding Kinnikinnick at safeway. I’m a teary kind of girl, I guess.
-Sea
Thanks for the comments. I would go to Portland just for the GF fish n’ chips! That is something I’ve only dreamed about. ~ Kathy
Last week when I got a box of FREE Van’s Waffles! I received a printed grocery store coupon from Giant in my prior shopping trip and get this, the $3 coupon was more than the cost of the waffles – $2.79, so I actually got an extra 21 cents to apply to my bill! With the high cost of most gluten free foods, I was so happy for this savings that I cried!
I almost cried when I tried making date squares with all purpose gluten free flour and they turned out to taste exactly like “real” date squares.
I honestly thought I would never have date squares that tasted like date squares again!!
I also almost cried when I tried my hand at GF Donairs (Gyros)
and they were actually really good.