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No? I very much don't believe it is.

Sure, that's not a problem. Calling a legitimate sensitivity an "allergy" for the sake of expediency isn't a problem. It's still a legitimate dietary concern that needs similar handling.

I guess I'm more averse to lying then this supposed "average person" then.

I'm okay with that.

Fair point! Any electrical component that is not a superconductor is technically a resistor in addition to whatever else it does.

I literally said that I do get it corrected unless doing so is a huge inconvenience for me.

I don't lie about why I need special treatment.

I have preferences for things I don't like on my food and ask for removals or substitutions regularly. Sometimes those requests are forgotten or ignored and I will get it remade, or maybe I just suck it up and deal with it if it's takeout and I'm a half hour from where I got the food. Not once in my entire life have I considered telling people I have an allergy.

So yes, I have thought about why a person might feel like they have to lie about severity, and my conclusion is "that person is a self-centered asshole."

That's a fair point. Handling such request is part of the job, and if someone isn't willing to do that then they aren't doing their job correctly. I can definitely appreciate that perspective.

It's unfortunate in both cases that someone with a preference and someone with an allergy don't always get the appropriate response, but I still maintain that someone without an allergy saying that they do is just making things worse.

Yes, a person who asks for no onions shouldn't get onions, but a dislike doesn't require workspace and utensil sanitization to the same degree as an allergy.

Someone saying they're allergic but then getting food prepared on a surface that was just used for the thing they're allergic to can still have a reaction to it, but it's perfectly fine for someone who just didn't want it on their food.

Telling someone you're allergic when you're not either creates an enormous amount of extra work for the kitchen staff to avoid cross contamination, or reinforces not taking it seriously because they don't and nothing bad happened. In both of those scenarios the person lying about being allergic is an asshole.

That Karen telling people she's allergic is a contributing factor to why people don't take allergies seriously.

Incandescent lightbulbs are literally this.

"Wolfthorn" is orange, lychee, coconut, and pineapple. At least according to my search just now.

I think you inverted the scenario. Otherwise you're suggesting there's some way that eating a veggie dog is a grave sin