Chicken Anyone?

It's late...I should be in bed...but I've been laughing to myself about this all day...

If you spend much time with me, you'll learn that I am allergic to chicken.  All poultry, in fact.  I always jokingly say that's why they call it fowl.  Haha.  I don't go into anaphylactic shock or anything like that, but it definitely does NOT agree with me.

That being said, of course chicken (and turkey) is so ubiquitous, I have to be careful eating out. Even soups are usually on the "no thanks" list because so many of them use chicken stock as a base.

So today, when the new management of our building had a "Get To Know Us" breakfast for all the tenants, I ran into this situation again.  They had "vegetable breakfast burritos", and just plain "breakfast burritos".  The conversation went something like this:

Me:  "Excuse me...what's in the breakfast burritos?"

Server:  "Meat, cheese...uh...um...tomatoes I think."

Me:  "I'm allergic to poultry.  Do you know what kind of meat it is?"

Server:  "Sausage."

Okay.  Ever of heard of people putting turkey in their sausage to lean it up and make it healthier?  I sure have.  Sausage is not a "meat", it is a "meat product"...sometimes it is a "meat BY-product".  You never hear a rancher say, "Yeah, I've got 50 head of cattle on the back 40 acres, and 100 head of sausage on the front 40."

Me:  "Do you know if there is any turkey or chicken in it?"

Server:  "I'm not sure..."

Lady behind me in line:  "There's probably not any turkey in it..."

Apparently she had no problem risking MY health.  I think she just wanted me to quit slowing the line down.  So I grabbed one of each and headed back to my desk.

It was ham.