Oh pshaw, on Mon 17 Dec 2007 09:50:17a, zxcvbob meant to say...

> I remember not too long ago, everybody was skeered of peanuts.
>
> Last week I made a bunch of brownies and other goodies to take to church
> for a thing. I didn't put any nuts in the brownies because once upon a
> time I made several hundred brownies to sell at a church rummage sale
> and they didn't sell very well because they had walnuts in them, and the
> hysterical mothers were afraid of them. Nevermind that walnuts are not
> peanuts. Most of the other folks brought stuff with peanuts or peanut
> butter in them. The kids ate everything, of course. I asked my teenage
> daughter, DD, about this and she rolled her eyes and said, "Peanut
> allergies are *so* 1990's, Dad" (then she laughed)
>
> Last night we had a children's program at church, so I made peanut
> butter cookies.
>
> Afterwards I got to thinking about it. I told my theory to DD and she
> thinks I might be onto something: The peanut allergy craze disappeared
> in fall of 2001. When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and
> gave people something new to be hysterical about.
>
> DD still knows a couple of kids who really are allergic to peanuts.
> They carry Epi-pens with them, and they take a benedryl beforehand if
> they are going somewhere there might be a lot of peanuts. The school
> even serves peanut butter sandwiches again.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Bob
>

For the most part, I think they're all *nuts* <emphasis intended>. I'm not
denying there are those who are allergic to peanuts, but it's not in
epidemic proportions and never was.

As I posted earlier this month, there is a new employee where David works
who purportedly has a "deadly" allergy to strawberries, even if she's in
the same building with them. Come on now..........!

It's just something else for people to get excited and/or angry about.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Sunday, December(XII) 16th(XVI),2007(MMVII)

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