Labels that read gluten-free automatically attract me. I am not gluten intolerant, I don’t have an allergy to gluten, but I don’t like the way my stomach feels strange and bloats after eating pasta and bread and all those pastry delicacies.
If there is a gluten-free option, I will usually go for it. (Many people roll their eyes at this but, so long as I am feeding myself and spending my own money to do so – I really don’t think you ought to have a problem).
After the initial eye-rolling reaction, there usually comes a comment about the taste, texture, consistency, and all-round edibility of gluten-free foods.
How can you eat that? They mutter, staring at my slice of gluten-free toast with strawberry jam as if it possesses some sort of radioactivity.
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I don't have a problem with people eating gluten-free if they're not gluten intolerant - as you said, it's your money and food! What I do have a problem with is non-gluten intolerant people claiming they ARE gluten intolerant at restaurants, on planes, etc. to demand a gluten-free option when it may not be available. People like that are a major reason why gluten intolerance is seen as "fake", and make it harder for people who really are gluten intolerant.
A colleague who's glutten intolerant was saying people will request glutton free food, and the kitchen will go to all the effort of carefully preparing a glutten free meal, then the staff will see those same people eating cake and drinking beer.
A friend of mine sat next to a woman on a plane who demanded a gluten-free meal, even though she hadn't organised to receive one one ahead of time, because she was gluten-intolerant. When the staff told her they didn't have any available because she hadn't ordered one, she accepted the fish, complaining loudly that she'd have to scrape the batter off. She didn't, and ate the whole thing.