[Marie]

Practically every food substance can cause an allergic reaction in somebody, if you look hard enough. Where do we draw the line?

You are so right. My son's allergic to wheat. I'm training him to read lables and not eat anything he's not sure about. If we go to a party, he's learned to be very content with a bowl of icecream or (if there's nothing he can eat) to sit quietly (without attitude) while the other children eat and I buy him icecream on our way home. He's not unhappy about it.

[hunter112]

Exactly the same thing that my folks taught my younger brother about sweets (he had juvenile diabetes). But if peanuts are like the Andromeda Strain to enough people, maybe they ought to be restricted to certain zones. If I expect it of smokers, I guess I have to accept it as a peanut fan.