{"id":871,"date":"2019-03-06T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=871"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:27:22","slug":"when-the-chips-are-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2019\/03\/06\/when-the-chips-are-down\/","title":{"rendered":"When the chips are down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We were\nshopping the other day and had stopped at the frozen food isle to get some\nveggies and chips. Whilst mum was busy agonising over beans or peas, I noticed\na dude taking packets of chips out of his trolley and putting them back in the\nfreezer. He had about ten packets. He then rummaged around in the piles in the\nfreezer, picked out random bags of the same brand of chips and placed them in\nhis trolley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched for\na while, entranced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I couldn\u2019t\nhelp myself, I asked him what was wrong with the chips he had put back (they\nlooked exactly the same to me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mum gave me\none of her dirty looks that says \u201cSibo! Why are you bothering strangers? Oh\nwait\u2026 WHY are you talking to strangers in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man\nshrugged his shoulders and told me he did not want \u201cgluten free\u201d chips. He\npointed to a speech bubble on the top of the packet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mum clutched\nher head, completely forgetting he was a stranger and spoke to him herself. \u201cOh\nmy word! Whatever next?\u201d Then she checked our chips to see that they weren\u2019t of\nthe \u2018gluten free\u2019 variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks\nlater we popped into a different store and mum grabbed a bag of oven-bake chips\nwithout thinking. When we got home, she noticed they were gluten free. She moaned\nto Dad about how they were taking all the goodness out of everything and soon\nwe might just as well eat twigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad just\nsmiled and gave mum a hug. Then he told her that chips are made of potatoes and\nthere is no gluten in them to begin with. \nIt was just packaging. Some people have gluten allergies and don\u2019t know\nwhich foods contain what. So having the information on the package made it easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think mum\nfelt a bit foolish, because she huffed and puffed and said they might as well\nlabel them \u2018boneless\u2019 too then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did some research and according to Medical News Today<\/a> \u201cGluten is a family of proteins found in grains like wheat, spelt, rye and barley. Gliadin and glutenin are the two main gluten proteins<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently\nmost people tolerate gluten quite finely, but some folk suffer from a condition\ncalled Celiac disease and gluten is really bad for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom\nline is\u2014potatoes do not contain gluten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can have\nyour chips and eat them people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Potatoes are gluten free! True story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,31],"tags":[222,221,223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}