Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill
Did you forget the sarc tag? Cuz if You’re serious about not wanting to clean carts over potential peanut issues , I’ve got news for you: There’s enough germs and yuck on ANY cart to kill a herd of elephants. Fact.
Sorry if you or your kid has a peanut allergy but that’s YOUR problem, not society’s problem. YOU are responsible for your own safety and need to take precautions however necessary. One thing you DO NOT get to do is expect society to conform to your “allergy”.
Rant over.....
And abandoning the prayers that often preceded those meals is why public and private morality is in the toilet, too.
I remember the Fluffernutter, but only had them for a short time. I was one of six kids and as the dentist bills started rolling in my father banned them, and then all sugared cereals, Coke, candy, etc.
I used to not take it seriously. Thought it was bogus. But I saw a guy have an allergic reaction to peanuts. It was not pretty.
So true. Lift up the Bernie or Hillary tee shirt and let it hang out.
See my post at #134.
I actually assumed heights was being sarcastic, but is it so far fetched to imagine that some nanny state legislature could pass a law mandating that special expensive cart cleaning stations with some kind of UV light, instant drying antiseptic spray, or whatever have to be installed that sanitize a cart after each and every use?
It isn’t far fetched to me at all. If I can imagine it, government can legislate it.
I just wanted to present a different point of view...
I am not saying I want more regs...and believe me, families of people with peanut allergies and people who have such allergies do exercise great care to prevent these events from occurring...I have personally called food companies of everything I am serving to make sure peanut free processing plant — not calling for a ban, but even smelling the stuff can cause lips and eyes to swell
However, I do think airplanes present a special circumstance because these allergies are life-threatening for some.
BTW, I don’t think any animals should be allowed on planes for same reason...Some people have severe allergies—and again, I don’t mean merely sneezing, coughing or watery eyes...
I just think it is very callous to dismiss what is very serious event for some as “kiss my butt”
I suspect that if you had a family member nearly die more than once because they could not breath, you might feel differently.
I very rarely ever had them as a kid, but being an adult is different...:)
If I want one...I can have one!
There’s a middle ground between paranoia and not caring. I shake hands, but wash my own hands before eating. I don’t touch the restroom exit door with my bare hands. I don’t use the bedspread or the reusable glasses in hotel rooms. And I don’t set food where babies sit. BTW, my immune system is not only functioning, it operates in overdrive.
“What caused the prevalent onset of peanut allergies?” I read several years back that over 90% of all peanuts are now infested with some sort of fungus — aflatoxin? — that was unheard of several decades ago. The kids with those nasty peanut allergies are actually reacting to the aflatoxin present in virtually all peanut products. That said, no four-year-old should be dragged along to a y public place if he hasn’t been fed beforehand or can’t go more than an hour or two without having to be fed. And a PBJ sandwich is a lousy choice for public consumption by a messy toddler.
That, in a nutshell, is the issue. PB&J is "low brow" to the SJWs. Shopping in Target is "low brow" to the SJWs.
Spank my kids for a real offense and I’ll probably agree with you.
Spank my kids just because they eat peanut butter?
I’ll remove the psychotic threat to my children.
More than made up for by vast moral superiority over one's turkey-eating family members every holiday.
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Aflatoxin has been common for a century.
Soils are loaded with fungi everywhere.
Food of the Gods!
There seems to be times of a disease du jour. I can remember when I and my two daughters were each diagnosed by our GP with asthma when it was the disease du jour. Our fifteen-year-old medicine still gathers dust in our medicine cabinet. None of us have ever had a real asthma attack.
I am old. In my entire life and working career and huge amounts of travel I have met just one person with a life threatening peanut allergy. But it was truly life and death for hi/. However he led his life without imposing his burden on others. Chinese food? Wouldn’t set foot in the restaurant. Always had a “epic-pen”. If there was the remote chance he could ingest peanut he avoided it. He felt to do other wise was to put his life into the hands of others.
Todays allergies are mostly peanut sensitivities that go along with vaccinations, gluten, dairy, and various nefarious chemicals. When faced with peanut bully I ask why they would jeopardize their life by being near peanuts. Or I ask what the specific diagnosis is and what the reaction level is. Oh the hatred that is given back!
Think about those baby seats on those carts and normal diaper leakage and you'll take advantage of those wipes that many stores offer.
I do.
Then again exposure builds up tolerance.
That's quite a feat!
Have you ever heard of English Ivy Extract?
Or Camphor bark?
They're natural and they work.
We sincerely do sympathize; but we still don't think everyone else should have to be the cure. Kudos to her for carrying her pen and whatever other steps she takes to manage her condition.
I hope she works with a good nutritionist and diagnostician to find out if some necessary food, vitamin or mineral is missing from her diet or some other aspect of her diet or household chemical such as formaldehyde in carpeting or chemicals in paint or cleaning supplies is co-morbid with nut allergy.
Hope she does grow out of it. We had food allergies in our house, but eventually our sufferer is now able to eat all those foods in moderation, now being a grown person. There was co-morbidity between foods and pollen, and we got a lot of relief from a water-tank vacuum cleaner instead of a dustbag vacuum.
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