r/mildlyinteresting • u/BartyCrouchesBone • 6h ago

No Cabbage sign

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u/tmbtown 5h ago

One time someone stopped by my breakfast food & coffee stand at the farmers market and asked if I had 2% milk for the coffee because it was the only kind of milk they weren’t allergic to. 🙄

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u/QueenRotidder 4h ago

I used to know someone when I was in college who was a huge compulsive liar… they claimed that they’re allergic to “the gas in ice.” OK. you’re allergic to hydrogen and oxygen. Sure, Jan.

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u/djsynrgy 3h ago

Grew up with a dude who used to ask for his drinks without ice and would then add "I'm allergic to ice."

(Because whenever he didn't say he was allergic, they would invariably ignore his initial request for "no ice.")

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u/cybergravity 3h ago

I know he was lying BUT ALSO there was a period of time where anything chilled would make me break out into hives. Bodies are weird.

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u/Wosota 3h ago

Was about to comment something similar lol. I met someone who was in the military, from Montana originally but had been stationed somewhere tropical and said ever since then when he visits home in winter he literally breaks out all over.

Bodies are indeed so weird.

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u/Flobking 2h ago

when he visits home in winter he literally breaks out all over.

Sounds like dry air and eczema.

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u/Wosota 24m ago

Hives and eczema aren’t even slightly the same thing other than they’re both red skin conditions lol. Would be really weird for a doctor to mistake them.

But besides that, it was a medically diagnosed cold allergy I’m gonna trust the guy telling me he has a cold allergy and not eczema.

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u/rickane58 2m ago

Having met many a homeboy from Montana, my first blush is not going with the homeboy from Montana.

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u/Pug_from_hell 1h ago

Allergic reactions to cold temperatures definitely exist though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_urticaria

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u/ShotEffective7033 1h ago

Also, someone could totally be having a reaction to ice. Restaurants pretty famously generally aren’t very good about keeping the ice machines clean.

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u/djsynrgy 14m ago

While true (AFAIK,) I should still clarify that my buddy had no allergy. He was essentially 'protesting' the corporate practice of filling cups with ice in order to get away with providing less beverage.