I can always tell a fellow celiac because they understand the diference between intolerance and allergy! Thus you know why I use the word “allergy” as to not to have explain over and over to the uninformed.
Here’s my favorite (as I am chowing down on a ridiculously expensive, tasteless, gluten free rice bagel - that looks like a normal bagel) “Oh, I thought you DIDN’T eat wheat!” SCREAM!!!!! Gets a little tiring after a while.
Don’t you want to scream at the reasearchers as they scratch their heads and try to explain the figures - Yes, its more prevalent in certain nationalities because it is GENETIC!!!! Yes, it only affects 1.2% children because they have not been exposed to wheat long enough to have the damage adults do! Teens are being diagnosed in the US at an alarming rate - look at the diets they eat - WHEATFUL!!! You are hard pressed to go down the grocery aisle and find a food that doesn’t have wheat in it!
You must have the same frustration I do. As far as your soda, check out the new codex alimentarius standards. Modified Food Starch -IF produced in the USA MUST come from CORN. However, if from another country - it is not the same standard.
And the Communion thing - former Catholic - understand that!!! One church will not make exception for a celiac family - forcing the family from the church, lawsuits, fear of going to hell because their child did not receive first holy communion!
Great corn bread - Chi-Chi’s Fiesta Sweet Corn Cake Mix www.chichissalsa.com. Can get it at your local grocery in the Mexican aisle. Mmmmmmm Gluten Free!!! Here I go - still haven’t had lunch!
However, several Orthodox missionaries allowed the native to incorporate the use of amanita muscaria as an alternative to traditional communion.
They got to use drums in service as well.
I think it did attract some in Finland to Orthodoxy but it attracted even more people throughout the Sapma/Sapmai to a homegrown "variant" of Christianity that used drums, trumpets, amanita, and spirit visions.
By the mid 1700s probably the greater part of the native population in the far North had been shipped to America and the old religion was on its way out in Scandinavia. The "variant" Christianity thrived to a degree in America, but the Lutherans followed up with their own American missionary work among all the Scandinavian emigrants and slave laborers and pretty well brought the greater part into Lutheranism.
I haven't asked but I'd just bet the Lutherans make an exception for Celiac.
Another religion that's not very popular among Celiacs is Jainism, and Vegetarian Buddhism. Definitely can't get enough to eat you join those groups.