Posted on 10/25/2025 6:19:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
“American Academy of Pediatrics”
Exactly, this is the same bunch who thinks it’s fine to cut the dicks off of little boys and also try to get kids to rat-out their parents regarding guns, I think.
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.
Common sense told us this all along.
Don’t forget, school lunch was either white bread with 1) PB&J, 2) Baloney & mayo, or 3) egg salad.
Yuppies were too superior to provide peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to kids in high chairs and they paid the price for their vanity.
Nonsense.
Our peanut butter was ground organic. The bread was 7 grain homemade. The children loved it.
Ping
My son is allergic to all tree nuts, but not peanuts.
Nutty women (pun intended) with vegan cats and transgender boys.
Munchhoausen (sp) by proxy.
No he’s not. You just never let him have any.
Peanuts are legumes. Totally different.
Granny would have us kids shelling pecans by now.
I thought this had been known now for quite some time.
Is there anything they DO know?!
Was someone questioning settled science?
Kids were started on a bite or two of solid food from their parents by six months. There was no baby food, the kid got what mom and dad was eating just mashed or pre-chewed.
This did two things it took some of the pressure off of mom to provide all the calories and it kept the kid full longer. Which let the parents sleep more.
Apparently it was also what helped keep allergies down.
Now the flip side is that any severely allergic kid would have died. Which would have meant that you would have had few children with allergies who survived to grow up.
“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
Peanuts are not a tree nut. They are legumes, not nuts. They are in the same plant family as beans, lentils, and peas, and they grow underground in pods.
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