At a certain point, ordering a specific dish without the vital components that make it that specific dish in the first place becomes pretty pointless. For example, if you order a cheeseburger without cheese, it's just a hamburger; and if you order eggs benedict without hollandaise sauce, that's just poached eggs on a bun; and if you order a Ceasar salad without anchovies, you're just going to get a few lettuce leaves and croutons on a plate.
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Yet, if you ever work a job in the service industry, you'll quickly learn that people order like this all the time and don't appreciate it when their server, who they see as being beneath them, corrects them on their bizarre orders. After a few times being grilled for trying to help out, you learn to just shut your mouth and let them order how they want… just to avoid watching a grown adult having a full-blown tantrum.
That's not to say that dietary preferences and allergies aren't serious—they are. There's nothing like a serious food allergy to make you realize when you start checking every food label that the thing you're allergic to is in everything.
The things to note that I'd like to correct in the following post are this: Allergies aren't black and white, and more exposure to an allergen will make someone have a worse reaction, and that doesn't mean that they aren't allergic just because they consumed a smaller amount and didn't have a serious reaction. Likewise, when you have a seafood allergy, you tend to avoid lots of seafood that you aren't even allergic to just to avoid all chances of cross-contamination.
With that said, let's just assume, for the sake of the story, that this Karen was making the whole thing up. It certainly provides the building blocks for a more satisfying tale.
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