Yakitori Recipe | Japanese Cooking 101
I remember making some Yakitori for a lunch at Information Access Company around 1986 and one of the fellow employees asked me if it were chicken or lamb as she was allergic to lamb. Diabetics also had to be careful with sugar intake.
There are serious medical reasons for some people asking about special needs in food.
They liked by Yakitori and it impressed a woman I was trying to get a date with but I had decided to go back to Law School then after dropping out of BYU. Another place with very strict food guidelines which I had to follow while on the BYU Campus and under their Honor Code.
There are also the Jewish, Muslim and Hindi food bans. These too seem important. I heard a lot about them from a Jewish Villages neighbor and earlier from a University of Denver Graduate Librarianship Program student who was a strict Muslim from Mosul, Iraq. There are people who just do this of attention-- claim special needs-- but there are many others who have serious reasons about their food intake.