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April 2, 2015 1:14 PM

Gluten-Free Museum
posted by a lungful of dragon (24 comments total)

So like a hipster version of Garfield without Garfield.
posted by Fizz at 1:18 PM on April 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

I like the pasta/basta one but as a person with a wheat gluten problem I'm annoyed that it's a political/hipster/anti fun thing to not be able to eat gluten, or even just to not want to.
posted by sweetkid at 1:20 PM on April 2, 2015 [4 favorites]

Celiac disease is pretty rough. I cook for someone with it and have to shop carefully for ingredients, so it's not a hipster thing to me. But I thought this site was a master class in photoshopping, and hilarious — particularly American Gothic — so I thought I'd share. Hope you enjoy.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:21 PM on April 2, 2015 [6 favorites]

I'm celiac and I found those to be hysterically funny. Also what's with all the white kids crowding around ketchup dispensers?
posted by Jesse the K at 1:27 PM on April 2, 2015

I totally understand people have Celiac disease, or Crohns, or a list of other dietary issues. But don't go into the restaurant and say you're 'gluten intolerant' while you're drinking your beer.

Also, the photoshopping is spot the fuck on.
posted by ZaneJ. at 1:29 PM on April 2, 2015 [3 favorites]

Well the Lady and the Tramp one is just sad.
posted by obfuscation at 1:35 PM on April 2, 2015

I totally understand people have Celiac disease, or Crohns, or a list of other dietary issues. But don't go into the restaurant and say you're 'gluten intolerant' while you're drinking your beer.

Jimmy Kimmel's Pedestrian Question: "What is gluten free?"
posted by Fizz at 1:37 PM on April 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

Well the Lady and the Tramp one is just sad.

Seriously. Couldn't they have at least left in the meatballs?
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:41 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

Seriously. Couldn't they have at least left in the meatballs?

Maybe the gluten in the breadcrumbs that helped bind those balls!?
posted by Fizz at 1:44 PM on April 2, 2015 [5 favorites]

Oh. I've never made meatballs, so I didn't realize. So okay, a sausage maybe? C'mon, throw 'em a bone! literally
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:48 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'm sure a lot of the phony "gluten free" thing (as distinct from the legit celiac kind) is just people not understanding how diagnostic elimination diets work. Like, people just assume that because a doctor (or "doctor") told them not to eat gluten or lactose or whatever for a limited trial period, that it obviously must follow that nobody should ever eat it.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:00 PM on April 2, 2015

I got to lady and the tramp and then lost it
posted by The Whelk at 2:02 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

My doctor wanted to put a tiny camera down my throat - you swallow it I think - as some sort of new-fangled gluten intolerance test. I said no, thank you.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 2:04 PM on April 2, 2015

(This is Kaiser and she really got excited like this would be a cool procedure for her; never seen a doctor light up like a Christmas tree before.)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 2:06 PM on April 2, 2015

I will take all your gluten. Happy to help out here.
posted by GuyZero at 2:18 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

Gluteus Minimus
posted by Ratio at 2:52 PM on April 2, 2015

FWIW, this also works perfectly as Passover Museum.
posted by Mchelly at 3:14 PM on April 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

The post's tumblr link is funny, but I thought the American Gothic fork removal wasn't true to the spirit of the page, and at this moment seeing the side by side pictures pushes me toward thinking about what I can never eat again.

It took me 18 months after my celiac diagnosis to donate my copy of the Bread Baker's Apprentice. It's not so hard if I don't think about it, but I really loved making all things bread.
posted by Radiophonic Oddity at 3:54 PM on April 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

When someone I'm with orders something gluten free, I always ask the waitron if I can have their gluten.
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:12 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

I mean, listen, I wish I could eat it. I miss croissants etc. I don't get the "you don't want it, I'll have it har har" response. People just need to constantly comment on other people's food choices I guess.
posted by sweetkid at 5:29 PM on April 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

But Lady and the Tramp one still has the breadsticks. Or at least I assume those are breadsticks.
posted by jedicus at 5:50 PM on April 2, 2015

I think what I liked best is how they didn't just remove the wheat and wheat byproducts, they adjusted the image based on what was left. So of the two dudes sleeping next to the haystack, the one who was previously cushioned on a (poky, prickly, itchy) bed of hay is now flatter, at ground level.

Very nice!
posted by Lexica at 7:57 PM on April 2, 2015 [4 favorites]

Clever and well done.
posted by bleep at 11:41 PM on April 2, 2015

The new versions were both better and worse than the originals.
posted by tommasz at 6:19 AM on April 3, 2015