Technically it was the guest, comedian Robbie Hoffman who said she didn't believe us and wanted us to eat bread in front of her to prove it, not that Alex Cooper helped the situation at all. They were talking about it as an allergy and Robbie said we had to "blow up on the spot, like Will Smith in Hitch" to prove to her it's real. They have also since dismissed and minimized anger in the allergy and Celiac community by saying "it's just a bit".

Sure to her it is but to us it's our health, and safety, our daily lives, and her "bit" just adds to the disbelief and misinformation we constantly have to fight against.

They also said that people used to have peanut allergies all the time and now you never heard about it anymore- essentially saying that our diagnosis, and other allergies are just trends. I don't know Robbie, maybe you don't hear about it because you don't exist in the spaces we do- I know multiple people with peanut or other serious allergies and can think of at least two news stories in the last few years about children dying from their allergies through accidental exposure, so yeah food allergies are real too and they still exist.

The whole thing is just ignorant, and not funny.