peanuts make the baby jesus cry

The vegetarian thing has been going fairly well so far, all things considered. I did break vegetarian to eat chinese, though :-)

Anyway, today I went up to the vegetarian station in my dining hall, as usual, because the food there is actually pretty good most of the time. They have a flyer in front with the ingrediants listed so I looked through the make-up of sweet-and-sour tofu. All looked good. It contained nuts, pine nuts, it seemed, and while I don't like those, sweet-and-sour anything is gooooood.

It wasn't until my throat was swelling up and I was coughing that I noticed the peanuts. I spent a great deal of time after that in the bathroom coughing, gagging, and wheezing. I really wanted to throw it all up, felt like I should, in fact (is that an allergic reaction? I've never had it before)... while my roommate sat on the sinks asking me if she should take me to the hospital.

Then the head chef, who feels I should have inquired about the nuts (which I should have, but I had looked at the ingredients), came in to see about the same thing. Always the fear of someone suing the big company... *sigh* I would have been touched if she had actually cared about me.

Anyway, it made me itchy and nauseaus for the rest of the afternoon... AND it ruined my sweet and sour tofu which was otherwise delicious, as all sweet and sour tends to be.

The good news is that a friend I have missed for a long time left me a message telling me not to eat anymore peanuts, silly. :-)

Yay for everyone being back at school. So many cool people are here now, and maybe I can strike up friendships with some people I like.