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Ok, let me start by saying I know this is 100% my fault.

I decided I'd make a thai beef curry tonight because we've been eating a lot of very English meals lately.

So I found a recipe and went to the store for ingredients, once of which was red curry paste.

I've cooked with curry paste a lot in the states (both red and green) so i just picked up the store brand.

I get home, get the beef all marinated in the curry paste and then look at the curry paste jar to see if it needs to be refrigerated after opening.

I don't see anything on that, but I happen to catch sight of one of the ingredients... dried shrip flakes.

UGH... I'm allergic to shellfish, it basically gives me food poisoning if I eat it.

I guess DH will have a nice beef curry dinner, and I'll have... salad?

I checked the old curry paste (thai kitchen) that I used to see if it had it as well and it's just such a low concentration that it didn't bother me. But no such luck, the old curry paste I used in the US was vegan.

Just so annoyed... but glad I happened to see it before eating it since I have an interview tomorrow.

Bummer, but wow, crisis averted!

@KatyElle: @Gemstone: I am so glad I found out before eating it, but now I also have a whole jar of curry paste I can't use.

Thanks for the luck on the interview.

I guess I really have to read ALL labels here since they are putting shrimp flakes in random things.

Hopefully DH likes the curry because he'll have to eat a fair bit of it.

This also makes me worry though because I love thai food and we go out to eat thai from time to time and now I'm worried that I'll get sick next time I get thai curry at a restaurant if British curry pastes have shellfish in them.

@MissPumpkinPie: Yeah, I just don't always trust the answer. We've asked before, been told no shellfish and then I've gotten sick because they don't know what's in their curry pastes or fish sauces.

We even told a sushi place no shrimp, crab, etc and they brought us a tempura shrimp roll and a real crab (not crab-stick) roll. This was after the waiter very much said "oh yes, that's fine, we can accommodate that no problem. Thanks for letting us know." When we pointed it out to the waiter he didn't really care and then very grudgingly offered to get us a different roll.

@Natakie16: Thanks!

Look for Thai Kitchen, they make vegan curry pastes. That's what I used when I lived in NYC.

@AB Bride:  That's really interesting. I've eaten a lot of thai curries (although I think I usually eat green curries and not red curries) and I've never had a problem.

Maybe there's so little shrimp in the curry that it doesn't affect me.

I love indian curries as well, those are so good.

DH did really like the curry though. I may make curry again, when I don't have anything to do the next day and try it since my reaction is directly proportional to how much shellfish I eat at worst I may feel a bit nauseous all night.