Gluten Free Pizza NOT Gluten Free!

marliepanda

To be honest I find the fact the cousin is a doctor pretty irrelevant. She was ordering pizza. You don't need specialist skills to do that.

Unless you're saying she said 'do you do gluten free pizza. My cousin is coeliac, here is a list of the consequences and symptoms of eating gluten. As a doctor I can provide medical history to prove this. I AM A DOCTOR'

I think it's more likely she said 'do you do GF PIZZA? Yeah? Great I'll have one please,'

The box said vegan, they still ate it. I would not have.

bris

bigp26 wrote: »

Can I claim compensation?

Credibility right out the window.

bigp26

bris wrote: »

Credibility right out the window.

Not sure what you mean by this! To be honest I don't have the time to go and try and claim compensation and wouldn't want to ruin a family business like that.

I'm just really annoyed as right now while I write this I am feeling bloated and gassy! As well as that, all the months of staying on the horrible diet just feel like a waste! Apparently the villi (small hair like brushes on the inside of the small intestine) instantly flatten out again upon gluten consumption regardless of past diet!

A big thank you to all that have contributed tonight! Hope you all have a good week!

jkkne

Life threatening? Coeliac disease? Only if untreated. As a sufferer slight exposure to pizza is hardly going to kill you. Although as a sufferer I can sympathise I think this is more an emotional reaction than a measured one. Chalk it up to experience.

Your cousin didn't order properly or there was a communication breakdown. If the driver said Vegan and not gluten free (perhaps the person who took the order didn't know what gluten free was....was it clarified?) and then it tasted great I'd be wary. Gluten free pizzas although the new ones are lovely taste nothing like the genuine thing

Next time order at Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Prezzo or Pizza Express who offer specialised gluten free Coeliac UK approved pizzas.

pauletruth

safer still homemade. why risk your health to a takeaway server.

Pollycat

Did it say 'Gluten free pizza' on the menu?

If it did, and you weren't supplied with a gluten free pizza then I think you may have some comeback.

But if it didn't.......

I know what I think it said (or didn't say) on the menu. :cool:

ThumbRemote

pauletruth wrote: »

safer still homemade. why risk your health to a takeaway server.

Safer to stay indoors than attempt to cross a road. Does that mean no-one should ever venture out lest they risk their health?

OlliesDad

pauletruth wrote: »

safer still homemade. why risk your health to a takeaway server.

Using ingredients made/packaged in a factory.. does this mean they have to risk their health to a factory worker instead?

AnnieO1234

Two things you need and even then will struggle, does the menu specifically state a gf option? Does the receipt (if you have one) show a gf was purchased?

Even if the above is correct, the onus would still be on you to prove that you didn't consume a different pizza by mistake, particularly as the one you ate had vegan marked on the box. You could not be sure at any point this was correct.

To be honest, if your symptoms are so serious stop messing around with things like this either make your own or go to a known brand that offers gf in a different shape entirely. Presumably there were other things to eat, it was a collection of people and as I'm certain you won't have had samples taken it could just as easily have been down to a bug, poor hygiene or an innumerate number of other factors.

Your cousin should be taking this up as the person who ordered but the best you can expect would be a partial refund or free order next time.

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AnnieO1234 wrote: »

Even if the above is correct, the onus would still be on you to prove that you didn't consume a different pizza by mistake, particularly as the one you ate had vegan marked on the box. You could not be sure at any point this was correct.

There would be no onus on the OP to prove this. For a start, it would be impossible to.

All they need to show is, on the balance of probabilities, that the illness was caused by them consuming a pizza which was supplied as gluten free but was not.