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Whatever happened to the peanut-butter allergy scare from about 10 years ago? If you remember, we were banning kids from taking peanut-butter sandwiches to school and all peanut products were getting removed from school cafeterias and vending machines. All this fuss because a zero-point-something percentage of kids were identified as "peanut allergic."

Before you know it, all these crazed "Münchausen syndrome by proxy" moms started coming out of the woodwork to holler and screech about how their poor children were being exposed to these evil peanuts in school and how, gosh-darn it, all the rest of us had to do something about it so that their precious children could be safely quarantined in "peanut-free" zones.

I don't know about you but I don't remember hearing about a single student that ever died because one of his classmates unwrapped a Reese's peanut butter cup in his presence out in the school yard.

Now the flavor of the moment for the "Münchausen syndrome by proxy" crowd is that their little boys like to wear dresses and heels to school and damn it, the rest of us better accept that fact and make special accommodations for their "little princesses". Never mind the fact that these mentally deranged moms forced the feminization of their little boys because either they wanted a girl instead of a boy or because they knew that by doing so, they might gain some celebrity for themselves and maybe get on the Oprah show. Or a combination of both.

Anyway, I'm sick of this culture of "I'm special and you must accommodate me, or else". Used to be you send your kids to school to learn and they obeyed the rules or they got punished - both at school AND at home.

I was on a plane a couple or so years ago and they were handing out peanuts, pretzels or cheeseNcrackers

The stewardess asked our row what we wanted peanuts etc

the woman on the aisle said no peanuts thank you Im allergic just give me whatever else..

“Youre allergic ??” gasped the stewardess and leaned back to the row in front grabbing the package of peanuts out of the hands of the woman in front of us “Sorry you cant have these This lady behind you is allergic to peanuts”

This is about the most idiocy Ive seen for peanut allergies..

we stood up for the poor reprived woman in front even the lady with allergies..

no chance plus the stewardess told those at back of us they couldn’t have peanuts either..

Nuts...