Posted on 10/31/2015 7:01:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh boy. Thanks to those among us that have a peanut allergy, everyone else has to have a crappy Halloween. That’s what it means to be a sensitive, “responsible†American these days.
Here’s the sign asking parents to only hand out carrot sticks, raisins and other boring treats:
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What if you’re wrong?
You risk serious injury, or death, of a child, and that’s funny to you?
Yeah, a real thigh-slapper.
Then you get charged with Murder One, and the trick is on you.
Anaphylactic shock is no joke.
Your comment is one of the most appalling I’ve seen on FR.
I did that once. My wife and I were driving down a street and some kids in costume tick or treated my car. I tossed a handful of individually wrapped Hall’s out the window. They all scrambled after the candy and as I drove out of sight, I heard one proclaim “Cough drops!.”
I read about a study done a year or two ago that found that about 95% of peanut allergy diagnoses are false positives.
The real test is to go to the hospital and eat a handful of peanuts. If the allergy is real, you can be quickly and safely treated.
So in a way, he’s correct.
Article seems much ado about nothing IMHO.
If you read the sign posted that’s what the parents claims to do and reasonably the child gets upset about it, so they ask that folks just keep in consideration children with food allergies and lists multiple things that are allergy safe including types of candy.
Nothing to get worked up on this, much ado about nothing.
Sorry, cyclotic, but the question here is a moral one.
I don’t give a flying flip about your “study” or any percentage of false positives versus true positives.
If I invite friends to my home for dinner, and one claims to be allergic to peanuts, I’ll take their word for it, thank you very much, out of simple courtesy, respect, and trust, and because I would never wish harm on any innocent, unsuspecting person.
I’m not gonna grind up peanuts and sneak them into their food, just to see if what happens, while trying to make some bizarre point, which is what the poster Behind Liberal Lines suggested doing.
Even if the person doesn’t experience an allergic reaction, the attempt to test someone’s reaction in this manner is, at best, passive aggressive in the extreme.
I would have stapled bags of peanuts on every one of those signs.
I grew up in peanut country. Teens would help plant and harvest peanuts. There would be peanut dust everywhere. That was also in the days of government peanut butter. If you didn’t have grind your own pb, then you had government bp because they handed it out to everyone. Every school lunch tray had some form of peanuts on it every day - pb cookies, a dollop of pb with apple slices, pb and honey with a buttery yeast roll, pb with veggie sticks, etc. No ever heard of peanut allergies. Fast forward to when our kids were little, the church preschool had the kids grow peanuts in Styrofoam cups. There are peanuts that need harvesting in the garden today that came from those cups. And through all these years, no one has died.
Not saying there aren’t SOME out there who are allegoric. People are allergic to various things but the number of helicopter mommies claiming their millions of kids are all allergic to peanuts is ridiculous. Doctors came out this summer stating the obvious, expose your kids to peanuts, dirt, animals, etc. and your kids will be healthier.
Now that’s a good way to get your house egged.
Move to the country and you won’t have that problem.
Halloween’s over. Wonder what the body count was?
I don’t have that problem anymore. It’s easier to turn the lights off than it is to move. sheesh
Give them peanuts, shrimp cocktail, and a loaf of Wonder bread, and they can wash it all down with a glass of whole milk.
I clicked through to the article and there is a pic of the signs posted.
Not one “please” or “thank you”. Just imperative sentences.
F’n nazis.
I’m 72! These idiots were around when I was young and going out for Holloween. There are always a few.
It’s for “the children”...
And just where did I say that was a good idea to do secretly? What I said was that it is true that many nut allergies are based on false positives. Plus that, many people outgrow allergies. Per this study, the test is somewhat flawed and the real way to tell is to actually eat the peanuts in a controlled environment.
I’ve got a family member who gets off on all her kids allergies and telling us what we can make for family functions. I’ve seen her kids eat the stuff with no negative effects. I’m sick of having to cater to everyone personal choices.
Our kid is allergic to corn. But I give out candies full of corn syrup, like the ones below, without batting an eye. Sadly, it's most American candies these days, if you read the package. You have to buy European candies to get sweetness made from sugar.
That was edible wax they were made of. Loved them! Also wax lips!
Ours, too. The part I really hate is when the mothers bring a bag to the door because they have an infant in a stroller down on the sidewalk. Although some of them just stand there and beg, pointing at the stroller and wanting you to throw the candy down to them.
At least they don't egg the cars.
Yes, one of mine would have the eyes swelling shut happen (in the 80's) and it was scary. We had the panel of allergy tests and found out what things were causing it (not peanuts). One of the things was raw carrots!
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