The other day I saw the daughter with her friends sharing a box of Girl Scout peanut butter cookies. There was no shock. I was surprised but stayed around for about an hour to make certain there would be no reaction.
Then I realized, her mother is about 40 years old which means the mother was born around 1969 and would have been between 8 and 12 during the Carter years when peanut butter was a staple in many if not most struggling households. I was in my late 20s and early 30s and ate a ton of peanut butters which was plentiful and relatively inexpensive as Carter drove our economy into ruin.
Flame away all you people who think that the percentage of people with life-threatening peanut allergies has quintupled since 1991. And I can save you a lot of time. You can also flame me for noting that there is no scientific evidence that vaccines cause Autism while you are at it.
>>The other day I saw the daughter with her friends sharing a box of Girl Scout peanut butter cookies. There was no shock<<
Get out!
There is a small percentage of the human race that will in fact enter shock and die if they ingest peanuts, or its derivitives. Had a kid at Miami University (Ohio) a few years ago die when he ordered chinese take out.
He asked if there were peanuts in any of the food, and was told no.
They forgot to tell him they were using peanut oil in the fryers. Kid died within an hour of eating.
The bottom line is if you are one of these 1% types, its up to YOU to avoid them. JMHO.
I am older, and asked a retired school district “special ed” honcho (who is an old friend) if he saw autism as a NEW affliction, as I had never seen autistic children in my public schools growing up. He told me the condition existed then, but the children were not main-streamed. THAT factoid could be true for many conditions we hear about today. I myself have chemical allergies, and you would not believe the lengths to which I go to avoid chemicals, from household cleaners to perfumes/colognes.