"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 8/12/2014 1:26 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:14:36 -0700 (PDT), Bryan-TGWWW
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> It seems irresponsible because of all the folks who have peanut
>>> allergies.
>>> The residues get all over folks shoes and get tracked around. I think
>>> the
>>> practice should be forbidden on those grounds.
>>>>
>>
>> I think that peanut allergy thing is overblown and ridiculous. I know
>> absolutely NO one with a peanut allergy, and yet I know someone who
>> carries an epi pen at all times because she's that allergic to onions.
>> I even know someone who is allergic to beans, yes - beans (not the
>> green vegetable)! If I can know even one person with a weird allergy
>> like that and not a soul who is allergic to peanuts, it's overblown.
>>
>>
> After a few years of not doing so, they went back to giving out packets of
> peanuts on airplanes. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was allgeric
> to peanuts. Lord knows if it had been prevalent when I was in grade
> school none of us would have been able to bring our lunches to school -
> nearly everyone brought and ate PB&J sandwiches.

I forgot about those at the dance studio. I don't know who they are now but
there are more than one. Used to be a girl who was older than Angela. Not
only did she have the peanut allergy but asthma and diabetes as well. I
know there is a younger girl because the studio owner said that the girl
stopped what she was doing and said that her lips felt funny and that
someone must have eaten peanuts in there. We do have a teacher who is
vegetarian and likely did eat a peanut butter sandwich in that room.
Luckily, the girl was fine but there is now a nut ban there.

If you are mostly around older people, you may not run into many with peanut
allergies. But more and more kids are getting them.