Re: rum balls

The best "balls" I ever tried were dark chocolate and Sambuca balls. Oh my, three of those and you better not drive.

Somebody once brought a real rum cake in to work for a birthday. Oh my was that funny - several teetotalers got mildly pickled and had to be told not to drive home for a couple of hours and why. It was pretty funny - person X had Mom make a rum cake for the next birthday party and by heavens it really was one, not a rum flavored cake. I'll never quite forget Mr. Uptight giggling like a little kid and the look of horror when some one explained it was a RUM cake.. I still think it was terminal embarrassment that kept him home the next day

I also never skipped lunch on a birthday day to have cake again.

I hope you don't think that was funny. There could be a myriad of perfectly valid reasons why someone could be drastically upset for unknowingly consuming alcohol.

Maybe neither Cheryl nor Mr Uptight took it to mean the alcohol content - I took it in QUITE another sense at first glance! Some rather personal deformity, perhaps!

Pat

And most people who have perfectly good reasons for not consuming things inquire before they consume unknowns. If I think there is any chance there will be alchol in something, I ask before having any.

Elizabeth

In this case, it was funny. He would rant at any one having a drink at a going away party about how we were going to hell tomorrow and would preach at you the next day at work about how drink alcohol was worse than fornication ( a whole 'nother lecture he spun at certain people) and it was the devil's drink.

It was just plain ironic - he was told "this is RUM CAKE Jim...."

Like I said, he was told it was a real rum cake.... C

But there are always people who think that you're "just being a picky eater". A friend who was trying to convince me that vegetarian food could taste like the real thing slipped me a soy burger. Fooled my tastebuds; didn't fool my digestive tract. Now she has the proof that I wasn't just making excuses because I didn't want to give up steak ... I really do have serious repercussions from eating soy.

Okay. I would stay away from that if I was told that was what it was. So basically he asked for whatever reaction he got. Thanks for the explanation.

Sorry I over-reacted. There are some people I personally know who think it was REALLY funny to try to sneak foods that people say they don't want into what they consume, whether it was my MIL putting tomatoes in things when tomatoes and citrus fruits gave me hives (which she didn't believe and therefore was trying to prove that I wasn't really allergic to it) to people who sneak alcohol into something just to get some perverse pleasure out of knowing that they are unknowingly intaking alcohol when they knew the person did not want to consume alcohol. I should have known that you wouldn't be like that, but it's the holiday season and lots of family dysfunctions are raising their ugly heads right now, and I am sort of seeing it everywhere right now.

Thank you for letting me know that I'm not the only person who have had people who thought they knew better than I did what I could and couldn't eat.

There are also some meds that you can't take alcohol with, and I am not just talking about Antabuse.

Oh, absolutely. One of my e-friends mentioned she had a recipe she loved and got raves for, but one of the guests "says he's allergic to the main ingredient, but I think he's just a picky eater", so she was going to serve it anyway. When I gave her vivid details of what happens to me when I eat soy and asked whether the arrival of an ambulance would ruin her dinner party, she changed the menu.

And for some highly allergic people, it wouldn't be an ambulance, it would be the coroner.

No harm, no foul. Even the large crowd of born agains that worked in our area couldn't stand the guy. Last I heard from my old boss, he had moved to some closed community of like minded "Christians". They are welcome to him

Oh - a bunch of us took perverse pleasure in it. We just didn't sneak it in him.

Hey - my father once pulled that kind of stunt on me. I don't currently test positive to a nut allergy, but walnuts and pecans make me feel "wrong". Not hives - just itchy and stomach issues and I now just carry Benadryl with me. The worst part is "organic" nuts don't seem to have the reactions.

Remind me not to send you the chocolate covered soy-nuts then. ;) But - dang they are tasty!

Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote: whether it was my MIL putting tomatoes in

That was DD as a young child - got hives from anything acidic: citrus, tomatoes, even cheese (parmesan). We were the parents who said, "No natural ingredients -- only popsicles with UNnatural flavors," quite contrary to our usual proclivities. She seems to have mostly outgrown it, but she still doesn't like tomato sauce on her pasta.

Even as a teen, when she went to the theatre with me once and had been coughing, she bought a bag of cough drops with "natural vitamin C and strawberry flavor." Well, by intermission she was clawing at her skin, hives starting. We spent 15 minutes in the ladies' room with cold compresses, which seemed to get it under control, and no more cough drops! She lasted through the play, and remembered the experience enough to choose a different type of cough drops the next time she needed them.

Sue

Oy! I've had people say "oh the alcohol cooks off, you won't know it's there." Well, yess, I will, thank you. But I've never had anyone lie to me about it. That's really icky, smarmy, unacceptable. I'd be beyone peeved.

Elizabeth

Not as serious as alcohol is simply that I despise zucchini and often hear a similar statement, "it doesn't taste at all like zucchini and you won't know it's there." Wrong--I always know it's there and it always tastes like zucchini.

Lucille

Well, the USDA did a study a while back of how fast alcohol cooks off, and those people would be shocked with the results:

Sounds like me and passionfruit. *retching just THINKING about the taste*

Oh thank heavens - there is some one else that hates that flavor...

I'd bet my neighbor's chocolate chocolate chip zucchini bread would pass your palate. DS ate a whole loaf pan full, loving every bite until we told him what is was.