#PennedPossibilities 946Do any of your characters have food allergies or sensitivities?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

#PennedPossibilities 946
Do any of your characters have food allergies or sensitivities?

Unless it's a significant contributor to the plot of the story, I would treat characters' food issues the way I treat describing their bathroom habits: don't describe interruptions that deral the story and may be distasteful or unpleasant for some readers.

But if a protagonist is deathly allergic to wasp stings and has to escape a pursuer by running through woods where there's a nest … that's legit plot!

[root42@chaos.social]

@cstross and I was wondering for the past thirty years why the Hobbits talk about food and meals half of the time in LotR, but they never take a shit even once!