She Who Shall Not Be Named hasn't been on the gluten-free part of her GFCF diet for some time, and hasn't shown any ill effects because of it. It's taken a lot of pressure off of us, obviously, and she's enjoying eating tater tots and bread that doesn't taste like sawdust.
We're still buying Glutino brand pretzels (at $7 a bag, he added ruefully), because SWSNBN really likes them, and they're actually pretty damn good. They're made in Israel (which will come into play later) and have nearly the same consistency and taste as the regular kind. And like most of her other remaining specialty foods (coconut milk ice cream), we can get them at just about any of the larger grocery stores, so that's not a problem.
What *is* a problem, and one the price tag makes even more annoying, is the annoying tendency the foil bag has of tearing all the way down the side. Nine times out of ten, I have to dump everything into a jumbo sized Ziploc, or try to chip clip the thing without leaving a pretzel sized hole. Now, as life issues go, it's a minor annoyance. I mention it here because of the exchange it prompted yesterday:
Me: Son of a bitch.
The Wife: What?
Me: This [hold up torn Glutino bag]. They can make one of the most reliable submachine guns in the world, but they can't design a bag that won't rip apart like a wet paper towel.
TW:...the Germans?
Me: *sigh* The Israelis.
TW: Ah. You realize that was probably two different people, right?
Me: Just get me a Ziploc.
The real reason I wanted to annoy you with all of this was to post a clip of the exchange between Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) and Rev. Whirley (Christopher Plummer) in Dragnet '87. You know, where Friday tells the Reverend he's up against the finest fighting force ever assembled, and he says, "The Israelis?" But I couldn't find it, so here's the "Dragnet rap instead. I'm sure Tom Hanks loves that this is out there.
Great movie. Seadogs and I learned the whole dance and everything.
I still want a pair of goat-skin pants for some odd reason. Anyone know where I can get a pair in 32 x 36?