It seems to me they have peanut free zones at the Saints games. I know I have seen peanut free zones at school cafeterias.
I don’t think “peanut allergies” were invented until maybe 20 years ago.....
As i was flying into Houston recently, the flight attendant came through the cabin with small packages of snacks, as is their custom.
As she reached the row I was seated in, she dutifully asked the gentleman seated next to me, “Peanuts?”, while offering the snack toward him.
Looking up from his crossword, he replied, “No thanks, I have one.”
Ba-dum-ching!
My son is allergic to peanuts. The first time he ate peanut butter his face broke out in hives and swelled up. His allergy is bad but not nearly as bad as some have it. What I worry about at games is not so much people eating peanuts around him but the shells and dust all over the seats and ground. If his allergy were more severe I would not bring him to sporting events.
I know a couple with a child who has a severe peanut allergy. They request priority boarding on airplanes to get in first and wipe down the seat, in case anyone sitting in the seat prior was eating peanuts. The child also has a host of of other allergies, including diary and gluten as well, so they are super-vigilent about visiting other children’s homes, birthday parties, etc.... Parents carry an epipen at all times. I was around recently when the child had to be taken to the emergency room because she mistakenly ingested some dairy.
Interestingly, their view is that they would never request or expect to inconvenience anyone, especially an entire football stadium, for what is their family’s problem. They have developed a strict protocol of knowledge of their surroundings and food, and they manage to it. Others around them also are quite understanding - certainly when they visit, I make sure all peanuts are out of the house.
Removing peanuts because maybe 1 in 10,000 may have an allergic reaction. Maybe 1 in a million might die.
Good to know.
And beer? Which kills tens of thousands every year? I’m sure there’s not a drop of beer in the whole stadium.
Next they’ll be touting ‘penis free’ games.
Given the number of kids in my daughter’s school that are afflicted, if I look back to my school days we had one kid in our entire grade (maybe 200 kids) who was allergic to ragweed and had to be careful during gym in the Spring if we played outside.
I'm not downplaying it at all, just wondering how it became so pervasive that a football game would need to be adjusted to accommodate.
Take me out of the ball game
take me out of the park
can’t buy me some peanuts and crakerjacks
I don’t care if I ever go back
Second hand peanut bans. It’s for the children.
Don’t you care about the children?
My wife has a severe peanut allergy. She had to be rushed to the hospital as a kid when after eating a sundae her throat swelled nearly shut. She has broken out in hives when I’ve kissed her many hours after eating peanuts. She starts to itch if she gets around an open jar of them. It can be quite scary.
That being said, she has never had an issue being in a plane or a stadium where someone seated more than five feet away had peanuts.
Since Minnesota is playing, it will also be football-free football.
Never in my many, many years have I ever met anyone with peanut allergies. Not saying it’s not real because everyone is allergic to something but this sky is falling peanut thing is getting out of control.
My husband and daughter have severe peanut/ tree nut allergies. They have learned to adjust and live with it. (He is 86, and she is 55)
Iit is a big world out there. There are buses, and elevators, and waiting rooms, and door knobs, and stores, and office situations and so on,etc.etc. Having a few selected peanut-free zones is nonsense. You may be able to control Johnny’s environment when he is little, but that won’t mean a thing when he is grown and on his own.
It is not a matter of just learning to live with it, as much as just being aware.
IMHO.
Our squirrels aren’t going to like this at all.
Maybe they should ban alcohol, sugar, salt and that evil racist chocolate too.
Friend of mine had a baby recently. Seems that they “automatically” test for allergies at birth these days. They were given a laundry list of things the baby is allergic to - peanuts among them.
After reading about this testing online, it seems that there are a bunch of false positives. Parents are being told that their children are allergic to things that are perfectly okay to eat. The medical establishment’s position seems to be “better safe than sorry.”
In the meantime, we are raising a generation of weenies who feel it is their right to inconvenience the world.
Heavy sigh.