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Man orders gluten-free breakfast on flight, gets single banana

Gluten-free options in grocery stores and restaurants have expanded in recent years to the point where it’s almost easy to forget that wasn’t always the case. But the keyword is almost. The Telegraph reports that an airline passanger ordered a gluten-free breakfast for his nine-hour, $1,311 flight, and was surprised to receive only one solitary banana. The banana came with a sticker printed with “GF” — for gluten free — and was served to him with the standard packet containing cutlery, napkin and salt. The passenger, Londoner Martin Pavelka suffers from the digestive condition called coeliac and was on the second leg of his flight from Tokyo to Sydney on All Nippon Airways. “All other passengers were served a full breakfast meal consisting of eggs, sausage, mushrooms, bread, and yogurt,” he told the Evening Standard. “This was a nine-hour flight. Although definitely gluten-free, the banana did not keep me full for very…