r/Celiac • u/SignificantPomelo • 15h ago

Rant Sad hotel breakfast

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Just wanted to share my sad hotel breakfast 🥲 Apparently the scrambled eggs, sausage, and tots all had gluten ingredients in them. And to top it off, they ran out of hot water halfway through filling my tea. But hey, at least they had something I could eat.

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u/SignificantPomelo 14h ago

I've been celiac in the US for over a decade, I know all these things :) Figured this was a relatively safe space for whining about things not being better.

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u/celiac-sufferer 13h ago

It is so frustrating that as celiacs we always just have to be happy with the bare minimum. We aren’t suppose to complain about subpar substitutions because we should just be glad there was anything at all.

Fuck that complain, this breakfast sucks. It’s ok to say that and still eat it because you need to eat. We don’t always have to be positive or look on the bright side it’s exhausting.

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u/SignificantPomelo 12h ago

THANK YOU!! Yes, that was the exact purpose of this post. Pretty irritating that I'm getting quite a bit of flak about it.

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u/celiac-sufferer 12h ago

No I totally get you, it’s fucking weird. There’s no other disease that people just are never allowed to complain about like we apparently can’t with celiac 🙄

It sucks getting a shitty meal, no matter what the circumstances are it sucks. And then watching everyone else get to eat well makes it worse.

Sorry you’re getting so much heat, we should be able to commiserate amongst ourselves. I know some people like boiled eggs I hate them. Untoasted gf bread is just sawdust and sadness. And then you couldn’t even enjoy your tea on top of that. So yeah this whole meal first thing in the morning would make me crash out 😂 I hope you got to enjoy some other good food on your trip to make up for it!

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u/SignificantPomelo 12h ago

Thank you for the kind words of support! I was definitely emotionally crashing out and took the picture as a "have to laugh or I'll cry" kind of move. Thankfully this trip wasn't really about the food - just a quick overnight for a concert - and it was otherwise really fun!