" We remove any peanuts from the stand or any product with peanut or peanut oil and take it off site. We pressure wash where the peanut roaster was and was," concessions manager Matt Timon said. "We get rid of everything contaminated by peanuts and take get rid of it for the day.
"The vendors are real supportive of it and help us out with it. They were fine with pulling their product for the entire day. They weren't concerned with the lost sales. Pulling candy bars on kids day is a tough thing to do. There is some loss, but it's worth it to get the kids with allergies in the game."
What a crock! Oh yeah, they don't losing thousands of dollars in lost sales plus thousands more in labor costs PAYING WORKERS to engage in unproductive practices (washing items that contained peanuts, or abutted peanut-containing items, so that they can contain ... nothing.)
According to the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, more than three million Americans suffer from a peanut allergy. Even the smallest particle of peanut can trigger a reaction. Some reactions include hives or slow breathing, but some can be life threatening.
"It is nice to know that we don't even have to worry about it today," Jane Haverkamp said.
The "Peanut Free" day was started last year when Rebecca Andrusiak, a parent from Ada Elementary, contacted the Whitecaps. She told the team that because of her son's allergy, he would not be able to attend the School Days game with his classmates unless peanuts were removed from the stadium.
This Andrusiak lady is full of it. If her son were that sensitive, he could never leave the house. Every day in school, there are kids with peanut bars or peanut butter cookies (some brought from home), or wearing clothes "contaminated" by peanuts. Such a child could never walk the streets, because he would constantly be passing people brandishing peanut product, causing him to go into seizures, or even die right there.
These peanut people have caused many schools to stop serving peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Because one out of ten million children chokes to death on a hot dog she wolfed down too fast, other people have caused schools to stop serving hot dogs. My own unscientific survey shows that kids' favorite foods are pb & j sandwiches, hot dogs, and pizza. Next, some parent will demand pizza-free schools, because her kid is lactose-intolerant. And yet, if schools ban those three foods because someone might be harmed by them, they have to ban ALL foods, because there is no food that has never harmed someone. Meanwhile, the schools have gone from not serving any food a few generations ago, to now serving at least two meals a day, plus snacks. And with all-service multi-schools, they will want to serve dinner, too. Just more of the contradictions of the hubristic, total, nanny state.