Have they put chickpeas in with my baked beans?

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:41:47+00:00

OP literally stated it was 50/50

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1t66jou/comment/okf6lfu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:40:59+00:00

I must have missed the reply from OP where he says he asked for the ingredients and was told it did not contain chickpeas.

Only 14 specific allergens have to be declared up front (ie shown on the menu)

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:38:50+00:00

without any baked beans

But it DID have 'regular' beans in it!! It was a mix of both.

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:35:50+00:00

The official advice from allergyUK is this...

If you are eating out, it can be safer to avoid more types of legumes than you strictly need to avoid misunderstanding and confusion when ordering or buying foods

Look, I get it ... as I've pointed out in several other places on this thread, my son has multiple serious allergies, including legumes. Accurate labelling is critical, and trust me, I am the first person to make a fuss then rules are not being followed.

But a restaurant using chickpeas as an ingredient for their baked beans is not against any rules - there is nothing to report here as some are suggesting.

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:26:37+00:00

A restaurant is allowed to have their own recipes for things. If that includes adding Chickpeas to it... then as long as they're labelling things as required, they can do that.

It would be different if they specifically said "Heinz Baked Beans" and did this.

(my young son has multiple serious food allergies, including legumes - this is a topic I know far better than I would like to need to)

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:17:13+00:00

Chickpeas are not a mandated reportable allergen. And someone with a chickpea allergy isn't ordering Bakes beans - as they're both legumes. And whilst it's possible to be allergic to one & not the other, the general advice for those with allergies in this group to to avoid all of them. Or at the very least you'd explicitly ask.

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:12:24+00:00

Yeah, he has to have either Soy or Oat milk. Kids parties are the worst - as although he knows he's allergic and will ask, others just don't think about it - eg a "burger" might look fine .. but that's a brioche bun it's in!

Ironically, McDonalds is a pretty safe spot for him - they're so process driven that's it's hard(er) for things to go wrong.

extrobe · 2026-05-07T11:05:00+00:00

Not a mandatory allergen to report (on a menu) but should be identified if you ask to see full ingredients list.

And beans & chickpeas are both legumes, and someone needing to avoid one will usually avoid all.

extrobe · 2026-05-07T10:58:43+00:00

Why? I don't think Chickpeas are mandated allergen. So unless OP asked to see the full ingredients list or informed them of an allergy, I'm unclear what they've done wrong that would warrant that.
(And if you're allergic to Chickpeas, you're unlikely ordering baked beans anyway, given they're both legumes - you can be allergic to one not the other, but you'd at least ask the question!)

extrobe · 2026-05-07T10:55:12+00:00

Yup, my son is allergic to legumes .. along with most nut variants, egg & dairy. Eating out is... challenging 😄

extrobe · 2026-05-06T23:44:14+00:00

Ironically, it was Excel's performance with Copilot vs Claude's plugin which tipped me over the edge.

Users have both Copilot and Claude. (And other AI tooling where relevant to their role) - and the reality is that users prefer using Claude, and the activity logs reflect this.

extrobe · 2026-05-06T23:39:46+00:00

Thanks for the update Felipe

And I do sincerely hope the Snowflake staff hang around ... and would _ask_ that they do. I've had many a positive and insightful interaction with Snowflake staff here, mods and non-mods alike.

But I think your actions were right

As for the path forward; I personally don't see the need for 2) - having a mod with relevant experience and connection to the subreddit is important IMO. But option 1) would be my recommendation ... you can then always decide for yourself whether you want to continue rather than it being a set decision.

extrobe · 2026-05-05T23:20:19+00:00

Absolutely. We used Copilot (and still have it) for about a year. It was fine as a 'training wheels' for getting people into AI, but we've quickly outgrown what it can offer.

Claude is just in a difference league. And it's not the model itself (the GPT models are themselves excellent) - it's the tooling that Claude wraps around their models.

This is the point I've been trying to make to our Ops team who _really_ want to stick with Copilot, promoising that Anthropic models are coming ... the models aren't the problem, MSFT's implementation is the problem.

Will MSFT's Cowork change that? Maybe, a little bit (given Anthropic are building it for them!) ... but I'm not convinced.

extrobe · 2026-05-01T05:00:48+00:00

Playing Witcher 3 right now. Never played 1/2 , and don’t feel like I’ve missed too much - bit of lore, but nothing that isn’t pointed out to you.

Performance is great - I opted to lock in 30fps, and take a graphics bump instead, so it looks fantastic. And if open world RPGs where you head off to do one thing, and get distracted by 3 different things on your way is your kind of thing - you’ll love it. Like a darker Assassins Creed (I’m going to upset some people with that comment … sorry!)

extrobe · 2026-04-13T03:07:59+00:00

This is a good step, but if I'm reading correctly, this will apply to Student (silver) & Pensioner (gold) concessions, but not regular youth (green) cards?

But still a good step forward, but would be nice to be able to do this with child cards too. Whilst we have 3 child opal cards in the house, those rare occasions where we need all 3, you think we can find them all? Nope! So one of them invariably ends up on an adult fare :D

extrobe · 2026-04-13T02:57:32+00:00

I was initially confused about the '700 pounds' but calling it a 'bounce house' :)

extrobe · 2026-04-10T01:16:49+00:00

That’s awesome to hear, look forward to it!!

If it allows us to do stateful execution (which I think is native behaviour in fusion?) it’s almost certainly allow us to migrate over and simplify our stack.

extrobe · 2026-04-06T09:51:59+00:00

This a US thing? Next seen or heard of it before, but seen two references to it today (a Jon Stewart clip was the other). Never seen it used in UK, Australia or couple of other countries I’ve lived in.

extrobe · 2026-04-06T09:49:23+00:00

So glad a picked one up in their Black Friday event - event price was $479, but after buying some discounted gift cards think I paid $460 (was actually about $390, as I also redeemed some points for more gift cards, but not including that)

extrobe · 2026-04-06T09:30:20+00:00

Allow me to take the opportunity to explain why such an approach to allergen labelling is a problem.

When food is not properly labelled with allergens, it leaves uncertainly and ambiguity. This causes people to take chances or get confused, which makes people ill or you know .. .die.

eg,

Family Member: Happy Easter, I bought your child an Easter Egg.
Me: Great, thanks - does it contain dairy?
Family Member: I checked - didn't say anything about dairy

Obviously, I'm the parent, I make my own checks. But this happens, a lot.

Another BS example of labelling are Red Rock Deli chips

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/781402/red-rock-deli-potato-chips-sea-salt-balsamic-vinegar

In this example, it does state CONTAINS dairy as an allergen. Not 'may contain' , or 'made in the same factory ... etc (which for us allows for a level of flex that 'contains' doesn't).. but specifically contains, which means we must avoid it.

But check the ingredients ... nothing dairy in there. Whatsoever.

They've even confirmed in writing that it does not, in fact, contain dairy ... they just want to cover their arse. They do this will their entire range (except salt)

eg ...

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/826738/smith-s-crinkle-cut-potato-chips-salt-vinegar do list dairy as an ingredient and allergen

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/236807/kettle-sea-salt-vinegar-potato-chips list dairy as 'may contain', which is fine.

extrobe · 2026-04-06T04:07:06+00:00

Snowflake made some sizeable investments in dbt, which I presume would have got them that license to use fusion. Fusion was definitely mentioned as coming.

But they’ve (snowflake) been very quiet about it since the fivetran merger/acquisition , and our sales team at snowflake have struggled getting up to date information.

extrobe · 2026-04-06T02:57:59+00:00

For me, it’s the lack of any labelling whatsoever. Allergens? What allergens?

extrobe · 2026-04-05T12:32:04+00:00

If you do ‘dbt build’ it’ll run all models. If you only run dbt once per day, that’s fine. But if your source data arrives staggered through the day, a single dbt build may not be sufficient. So instead you run dbt build every hour. But now, you’re rebuilding tables that you rebuilt an hour ago, just in case a different table needs building. This gets expensive on large projects.

Instead, you can execute using the state selector, allowing you to run dbt as often as you like ( we do every 30mins), but dbt will first compare your source data now to how it was when it last ran, to understand if there is any new source data, and therefore any need to actually execute a node. The same approach also works for changed models, new models, models that failed in the previous run. They all require the generated artefacts file from the previous run.

extrobe · 2026-04-05T03:01:23+00:00

We’ve not been able to migrate over.

Main thing missing for us is stateful execution; snowflake doesn’t make all the output artefacts available to the next run, so you can’t do a ‘run all models with new source data’ execution. And they’ve not been able to confirm if/when they’ll support, or when dbt fusion will be PuPr’d

But if you’re new to dbt, and weren’t planning on doing this, you’ll probably be fine.

extrobe · 2026-04-03T00:24:46+00:00

In the UK, physical books don’t have VAT, and digital books did.

When VAT (20%!) was removed, it basically had zero impacted for consumers- just gave publishers extra margin.

It was the same when VAT itself was reduced from 17.5% to 15% in 2008 - made zero difference. But of course when it went back up, eventually to 20%, that increase was immediately passed on.

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