Images of the packaging all clearly have a Reese's PEANUT BUTTER CUP broken in half so you can clearly see the PEANUT BUTTER inside.
Umm... it’s Reese’s.
I don't think you can blame the packaging. If you see "Reese's, you think Peanut butter.
Looking for someone to blame (with the added benefit of a deep pocket).
Two epipens sounds like an overreaction for one cookie.
Terrible tragedy for this family. It shows you how quickly an innocent mistake can become deadly.
The package clearly shows Reese’s on it. And I’m guessing that all Chips Ahoy packaging has a warning that the cookies are processed in a place where peanuts are processed. I could be wrong.
if she had a peanut allergy she never should eat packaged cookies.
Peanut butter cookies contains peanuts.
Situational awareness is vital in todays world.
It’s not the friend’s parents’ responsibility to clear their house of peanuts. If the kid is as allergic as all that, simply having had peanut butter out for breakfast could have made the kitchen, at least, poisonous to her.
A terrible thing, but by 15 the kid should know not to eat any packaged goods like that. At very least not without carefully scouring the complete ingredients list, if it had been produced in a peanut-free factory, etc. Heck, she’d be better off in health anyway, if she just avoided processed foods altogether.
“the top of the familiar red packaging was peeled back”
The cookie manufacturer didn’t peel it back, lady.
I think that if she was deathly allergic to peanuts, she would have/should have been in a routine to read all ingredients on any packaged food that she was considering eating.
It does not seem to me like this is the fault of her friend’s family nor that of Reese’s Chips Ahoy cookies.
Sad, but sometimes there really is no one to sue. JMHO
This is a tragic shame, but I do have to wonder, why the host family didn’t have her EPI pen?
My daughter has a friend with a severe nut allergy and if she is EVER at my house I make sure her parents leave an EPI with us.
At 15 this girl should have been more aware. Inspire of what mom says she did not make her child aware of the necessity to be alert
Wow. Don’t make someone else responsible for your child
Images of the packaging all clearly have a Reese's PEANUT BUTTER CUP broken in half so you can clearly see the PEANUT BUTTER inside.
Sad, but at SOME POINT. personal responsibility has to take precedence.
It's always someone else's fault. < /sarc >
I propose a constitutional amendment to limit the proliferation of peanuts and peanut products.
Combined with common sense restrictions on licensed trained users. /s
I have family members and friends with severe reactions to various things. My wife also went to school with a youth who died because he was told there was no shellfish in the stuff that looked like cole slaw. If your food allergy is so severe you might die from one bite, open packaged food and food at other people’s places has to be off limits. Even packaged store food has to be checked carefully. Blue Diamond does no longer allows any other nuts to be processed in its almond plant, as there was someone who had a severe reaction after having an almond that was processed on equipment that also processed walnuts. (possibly another brand).
This happens to teens with allergies a lot. They are a bit older and don’t have Mom hanging around querying anything headed for their mouths. I know one guy who at his teen job picked up a cookie left on the break room table and ate it without thinking. Driving home he went into serious allergy attack so crawled out to the sidewalk, gave himself an epi shot, and called his dad. Which saved his life.
Teens want to be like normal, and they don’t 100% trust parents that say how dangerous eating casually is.
Even I, a fully grown adult with a new strong allergy to one specific nut, sometimes I go over scenarios in my mind to scare myself, how to make SURE I refuse to eat some treat someone made at their home without asking if the offending nut is in there (because I don’t even carry an epipen). And I check all ingredient lists when I buy stuff. But teens like to live freely and a bit dangerously (mostly because they don’t understand how random “danger” can be).
"because the top of the familiar red packaging was peeled back, hiding the Reese's label"
Seriously, Alexi was "taught the ropes" about what she could eat and not eat but was not taught to read the ingredient label? At fifteen surely she knew that her life depended on investigating any food she consumed and not to trust anything to chance. These cookies look quite different than regular Chips Ahoy.
To blame the friend's mother is unfair.