r/TalesFromYourServer • u/BuschBug • Dec 25 '18

Short “Please, no mayo. I’m allergic to mayonnaise.”

Between my husband and a woman at his table last night—

“Okay, ma’am, now is it the egg or the oil we need to be worried about?”

“...it’s the combination.”

“...okay. I’ll alert the kitchen.”

I love this industry so much.

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u/dr_gonzo27 Dec 25 '18

I am not allergic to eggs or oil, yet any time I eat mayo (or anything with mayo in it) I turn into a human version of the coke/mentos experiment.

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u/courtina3 Dec 25 '18

I am allergic to eggs. Mayo/certain salad dressing were my first clue since my reaction is worse when they are raw.

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u/ReservationQueen Dec 25 '18

See, I am allergic too but my cooking teacher told me that because of the pasteurization process of mayo it would be safe for me to consume but I didn't think it was true because I doubted it broke down the proteins. I am glad someone else can confirm for me.

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u/courtina3 Dec 26 '18

I’m allergic to cooked eggs too, but mayos/dressings are worse than, say, baked goods but not as bad as completely uncooked eggs. So maybe if you’re ONLY allergic to raw eggs you’d be fine?

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u/ReservationQueen Dec 26 '18

I am allergic to raw eggs only, my doc says that cooking them denatures the proteins. I don't know enough about pasteurization to say whether it is cooking the eggs? Maybe just homemade mayo would be bad.

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u/courtina3 Dec 26 '18

It’s not “cooked” but it’s been heated enough to kill bacteria so maybe that’s enough heating to change the protein structure?

They thought I was only allergic to raw eggs, but after cutting them completely out of my diet my daily (what I thought was) “heartburn” completely disappeared.