artmichalek said:It's a sad state of legal affairs when peanut butter needs a warning on the label stating that it may contain peanuts.
What about apple pie? Wouldn't expect peanuts to be on apple pie, would ya? Jessica was eating at a restaurant once, and she ordered apple pie for desert - the kind with the "coffee cake" style crumb top crust.
She took one fork-full of it, put it in her mouth, realized that something was wrong, opened her mouth, and pulled the chunk of pie back out of her mouth. It never left the fork, and she didn't chew it at all. It just brushed the roof of her mouth. For that she had a swollen throat, a rash all over her face, and could barely breathe.
I think that if a food might contain something lethal that you would not expect to be in there, it should have a warning.
LindaNo1 said:Certainly, many people are allergic to many things. The allergy to peanuts can be quite scary. Even getting a reaction from someone who has been eating them breathing on you!
Very true. Jess and I were on a Southwest flight to San Diego, and I ate a few peanuts (what else do you get to eat on Southwest?), then kissed the side of her face. Within minutes that spot erupted into big red welts. By the time the flight was over, she was wheezing from the peanut dust floating in the air from the other passengers opening their bags of peanuts.
We took a different flight home.
I understand that people are alergic to lots of different things, but when I'm trying to get her to do group and charity rides with me, she gets understandably nervous when 90% of the food supplied is peanut butter or peanut-something.