[Tell It Right]

[SamAdams76]

When I was growing up, peanuts were far more common as a snack for children. Peanuts were packed into candy bars, Cracker Jack, or as standalone snacks. I remember getting bags of peanuts visiting the circus, the zoo, amusement parks, the beach, and sporting events. Before "hot lunches" were served in school cafeterias, most kids had peanut butter sandwiches for lunch.

We never heard of peanut allergies in those days either.

It wasn't until "chips" in all their various forms like Doritos became the predominant snack food that you started hearing of peanut allergies.

There is probably something to the theory of exposing children at an early age to peanuts, so that they do not develop allergies later on in life.

[House Atreides]

Common sense told us this all along.

[fruser1]

Yuppies were too superior to provide peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to kids in high chairs and they paid the price for their vanity.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Ping

[woweeitsme]

My son is allergic to all tree nuts, but not peanuts.

[waterhill]

Nutty women (pun intended) with vegan cats and transgender boys.

Munchhoausen (sp) by proxy.

[lastchance]

I thought this had been known now for quite some time.

[Sicon]

“experts”

Is there anything they DO know?!

[T. P. Pole]

Was someone questioning settled science?

[BradyLS]

“When I was a boy, me and my friends cracked peanuts during lunch at school and spit the shells out on the floor so the janitor had a job. For afternoon recess, we’d lure squirrels with any we had left over and kill ‘em with our slingshots. Then we’d take our Li’l Bowie knives and skin’ em, gut ‘em, and hide ‘em in our empty lunch bags in the coat room and took ‘em home at afternoon release. That night we all had squirrel stew for dinner and a head start on squirrel-skin caps for the winter! And we LIKED it!” —Grumpy Old Man

[SunkenCiv]

• Peanut Allergy Rates Dropped After Early Introduction Guidelines [10/23/2025]
• Exclusive colostrum intake linked with reduced peanut allergy risk (Early breast milk) [10/20/2025]
• Feeding babies peanut products early may have spared 60,000 kids from allergies, study says [10/20/2025]

[HIDEK6]

Attention-seeking behavior.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’ve been of a mind for some time that peanut allergies arose in kids, about the same time as one simple practice. Not allowing kids to play outside, in the dirt....helicopter parenting. And keeping them indoors for long stretches....lack of sunshine.