Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for February 21, 2013

Beer is usually made from barley.

There are wheat based beers.

Spit take… what’s next? Fart jokes?.I like it.

Bear in mind ladies and gents, this strip originates in Canada. We live on our beer. It’s half our ration of the cereals group in the food pyramid.

Yummm!

Doesn’t affect me.

And next week wheat will be good for you again! Isn’t that how it usually works?

been trying to cut out wheat. I can’t stand beer so no problem there. Giving up pasta is the hard part.

There are actually very few beers which are wheat free. A person who has celiac, or is gluten intolerant (two such individuals in my close family) have a very limited choice when it comes to beer.

Recipe for beer…. water, hops, barley and yeast. What Betty is reading is that gluten is bad, bad, bad…. especially for some people..Wheat, barley & rye have gluten. .But there is a very nice gluten free beer from Germany. Now being sold in Canada. And yes. It is good. Not as good as the 9%+ alcohol beer I tasted. But still good. (I love taste testing demos……. the servers are so willing to give you another taste.)

Some people have gluten allergies, but now there are claims that all cereals are bad for humans, that we should only eat meat and veg, like the cavemen, that we can’t digest it properly. Maybe, but I am not giving up my bread, my cereal, my pasta, my cake, my……………………………… Beer – meh!

Not if it’s made right!