Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill
A mother on a New York parenting blog wrote Monday that while shopping at the retailer, she gave her four-year-old daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and "a woman stopped me to lecture me about peanut allergies." The child's mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public. The anti-peanut butter backlash was swift and brutal. Most responses attacked the mother for potentially endangering children with peanut allergies. Some criticized her for feeding her daughter in a shopping cart, which they considered disgusting. "That's really inconsiderate," one person wrote. "So many kids have life threatening allergies to peanut butter. Eating it in a shopping cart GUARANTEES it will be smeared on the handle, etc. It's really awful you would do this. Sorry, but imagine if it were your child with the allergy."
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The population needs thinning, spread PB everywhere.
LOL, it just takes that one.
ding ding ding we have a winner
Every day. Without fail.
Whether they are letting some guy kill their kids, melting down somewhere in public on drugs/drunk or simply busy bodying, control freaking over completely irrelevant crap working to make all of our lives more miserable--it's there, in the headlines.
Good article. Quoted from it:
“While eight foods account for over 90 percent of food allergy reactions, including milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat, the peanut allergy has arguably received the largest share of medical and social attention,” Waggoner writes in the paper. Among the possible explanations: the severity of allergic reactions to peanuts and the harmful potential of such a mundane food, Waggoner said.And it's also another easy way to dump on the South, since peanuts, peanut processing and "goober peas" (boiled peanuts) are prominent food industries in the South.
LOLs! Every once in awhile I clear the food wrappers and paper cups out of the back seat. I refer to this as "cleaning the dining room."
“From your link - “the same number of people die each year from peanut allergies as from lightning strikes””
So many women looking for anything to go emotional over.
Sadly, corn allergy (corn and it’s byproducts saturate our typical diets, especially kids’ diets) causes behavioral issues such as ADD/ADHD. Then, the kids are drugged for those behaviors.
My father, who was born in 1918, had a really severe peanut allergy although he wasn’t a drama queen about it.
Wasn’t this a plot on The Office?
Now these parents who even take children to a store that sells peanuts in a bag, or whole or even peanut butter in a jar that could spill need to be charged with exposing their child to danger. Or, should the stores be forced to close or stop selling any allergen ? The seafood and freezer cases full of shellfish so deadly to many could kill millions. Could be some real empty shelves.
Farm kids have been found to have far fewer of these environmental allergies. They are around chicken feathers and guano, and large animal poop, milk, dust, hay and windborne seeds, soils, and all kinds of rotting vegetable compost. It strengthens their immune systems.
The shrieking emo mommy should never have brought her child into a grocery store.
Peanuts in jars, peanuts in bags, peanuts in bins in produce, peanut candies at the checkout.
That’s a careless, I’ll say dangerously neglectful mommy.
Anyone around here remember the Fluffernutter sandwich? Truly a kid gastronomic treat of the 1960's. The nutritional goodness of peanut butter fused with a heavy dose of almost pure sugar. Imagine the freak out this AR-15 of a sandwich would cause today.
This is why the Americans with Disabilities Act is such a horrible and horrendously vile piece of legislation. Is is so broad and open to interpretation that is it deliberately used as a cudgel that creates a "tyranny of the few".
You might well feel this scenario would be hyperbolic and utterly ridiculous, but I could see the ADA being used as a cudgel by a plaintiff in a lawsuit to mandate the use of peanut butter "sniffers" that would be mandatory in any business or facility.
Check out these two graphs about the Federal Register, the comprehensive summary of all statutes, rules, and regulations in this country:
Total pages in the Federal Register by Year:
Number of significant rules added to the Federal Register by President:
We are drowning in rules and regulations, never mind the burden that this places on industry and makes us non-competitive with many foreign industries. The bright spot is someone like Trump who has dramatically reduced this trend, but he is a once in a lifetime President in this respect, we won't see his likes again.
I know you think this kind of legislation would never happen, but I can guarantee you that it will. And that is why I believe the sole responsibility for protecting this lies with the parents of a child and an individual. I regret if someone has to live in a bubble due to this, I really, honestly do. But if that is how it must be, I would prefer that over impinging on millions of people and their livelihoods to protect them.
A lot of people get itchy after eating strawberries, so back in the day you just learned not to gorge on them. I used to get a headache after dinner every Friday night, which is when my mom served hotdogs. I was accused of faking, which was not pleasant; and not eating "what was put in front of you" was not an option, either. Decades later, meat processers were regulated to stop using chemical nitrites and nitrates in hotdog production. Problem solved.
I think i found something we can agree on.
Though I am not much a fan of any of them
Went to an open air flea market outside Philly. Sunny day and was pushing my son in his stroller. Busybody biotches walked over to me and said my baby was getting too much sun. I said, “I didn’t seek you out to tell you both could stand to drop about 50 pounds each.” They were horrified and I walked away.
True story.
I am going to have one sometime in the next week...as a treat, my wife got me a small jar of Fluff.
Ya gotta get the proportions right. Can’t skimp on the peanut butter, or it doesn’t taste right.
Very much like making a Seven and Seven. If you don’t get the proportions right, it has too much alcohol flavor, and if not enough, it has no kick. But when you get it just right...it is sweet and has a kick!
Most people, unfortunately, don’t put any thought into it
The mom needs to stay off the “blog”, if she wants to avoid being attacked - if it’s to be believed that she’s distressed over this, that is.
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