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Get the big picture! See 2 Believe!Leon Welch
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My doctor has given me as strong an antihistamine as she is allowed to prescribe, but even that does nothing for the itching and swelling. The moment a grain of pollen enters the keep, I begin to tomato, and after two minutes of being exposed to the Ejaculateum Arboratoeaea, I am lying on the ground with my tongue lolling out of the side of my mouth. I am heartily glad that the trees and plants are still interested in copulatory activities; I only wish they would be so good as to keep their sperm away from my face. Do not pretend that pollen is anything else; it transfers haploid male genetic material and sullies the bedclothes unmercifully. .Michelle Franklin
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Every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat–cheese and bread basically–but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies, ” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could’ve strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy–some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread–and I would’ve liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters’ fucked-up relationship with food.Gabrielle Hamilton
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We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?!Chris Rock
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After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm.. .. I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.Shauna James Ahern