[LOVEBoy]

As a last resort, develop a sudden "food allergy" to whatever you're trying to avoid.

And for extra laughs you could even pretend to go into anaphylactic shock. One thing is clear, you do not have any significant food allergies nor children with them. Suggesting anyone fake a food allergy reveals a real ignorance and is beyond insulting to the people who live with them.

People with food allergies live with one of the most challenging and frustrating issues imaginable. Put yourself in the place of someone for whom one of life's most basic necessities and pleasures is a daily obstacle course of poisons and peril, due overwhelmingly to ignorance and indifference of food preparers. That is what individuals with food allergies, and their parents, face every day.

Food allergies are a medical issue. Squeamishness about sushi or the desire to avoid mayo are not. What would be an even better indicator of restaurant quality is how seriously they take patrons with food allergies, and what they do to accommodate them. Suggesting that people fake food allergies is not going to help in that regard, and is an incredibly dumb thing to write.