coffee time
About once every six weeks I meet up with a couple of American ladies for coffee and a general chat. One of them, Sal, has a baby of 6 months and Annie has no children. We'd been trying to organise this latest meeting for almost a month and finally got it together for this morning. Annie and I arrive in the cafe and Sal and Baby are already there - baby buggy taking up the same sort of space that a small family car would, along with the contents of the household that are required once you have children. It's a really nice cafe, but it's small and the tables are quite close together. It's probably not child friendly but it's where Sal chose to go.
Annie likes this cafe too because they serve soy milk - this may be why Sal and Annie originally went there. Annie can have her decaf soy latte. She needs decaf because there are a lot of allergies associated with caffeine and she doesn't want to take any risks. 'You mean, you're still drinking caffeine?' - she asks me this in the way that you'd be asking if someone was still running that heroin habit. She prefers drinking soy milk because of the 'whole dairy thing, ya know'. You didn't know about the whole dairy thing? Well, there's a whole dairy thing. I once made the mistake of asking Annie if she wanted a cake or a muffin with her decaf soy latte and you'd have thought I'd tried to present her with a turd. It's the gluten thing. There isn't a whole gluten thing - there's just a gluten thing.
Sal, on the other hand, does like the muffins. But, she's been thinking about this a whole lot lately. There's the nut thing and with her breast feeding she probably shouldn't be eating anything that may have once sat next to a nut. Caffeine is out. Obviously, because of the whole caffeine thing. What about tea? Well, you know she's not really altogether sure about the tea. Perhaps she could risk some rooibus tea because it's got no bad things in it.
I had a full-fat cappuccino with two shots of espresso. I'm sure they think that I'm some sort of savage.
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The subheading will be '53 things to do with rooibos tea other than drink it.'
Also, isn't it better to eat nuts so that children aren't allergic to them? I'm sure "savages" don't have allergies. I certainly don't.
Huh? (this being the most coherent comment I can come up with, myself having a 3-month-old)
WHAT allergies are associated with caffeine? And what is "the gluten thing"?
("They" being my catch-all term for "stuff I may have read somewhere on the internet, or possibly dreamed after eating too much cheese for dinner").
Don't you just wish we were back in the days of food ignorance, where we could eat and drink what we liked, and not live in some state of fear that our latest vice would be denounced on health/diet/allergy reasons?
Ah, fuck em.
(well, in the nicest possible way, when making new friends in a strang-ish land.
Hang on, do you think this attitude might be why I haven't made many new friends recently? )
I ate peanuts throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding and my children haven't choked on one yet, but then I did have the "Planters Pregnancy and Early Years Manual" as my guide - it's lucky I didn't pick the "Stella Guide to Pregnancy" really.
I am so over the gluten thing - I'm into the glutton thing now.