"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:36:14 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>news
>>> On 6/15/2017 9:26 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>> I never knew a single person that had allergies when I was a kid, not
>>>> one. Peanut butter sandwiches were rampant I tell you, simply rampant,
>>>> home baked cupcakes were sent to school for parties etc., and nobody
>>>> ever went to a friends house with a note to tell their mother what they
>>>> could and couldn't have for snacks. LOL
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> "Rampant" is a great word! I never knew anybody who had peanut
>>> allergies,
>>> either.
>>>
>>> I pretty much took a PB sandwich to school every day from 1st grade to
>>> 6th. So did many of my classmates.
>>>
>>> Home baked treats were common in lunch boxes. No one worried about
>>> ingredients or allergies. Kids didn't go into anaphylactic (sp?) shock.
>>> Wheezing and need an epi-pen injection simply because someone brought a
>>> PB
>>> sandwich near them.
>>>
>>> I'm a military brat. Never once in all the elementary schools I
>>> attended
>>> did I encounter a classmate who had a peanut allergy. I don't know
>>> anyone
>>> *now* who has any kind of nut allergy.
>>>
>>> Doesn't mean peanut allergies don't exist. Just saying I think they're
>>> trying to sell more epi-pens.
>>
>>Yes, and JFTR none of them died of "mysterious illnesses" either.
>
> Who knows what doctors called it. Maybe not "mysterious illness". That
> sounds rather ignorant on the doctor's part. Can't have that.


I can tell you for a 100% fact that none of my friends died of anything they
ate while young. However, a couple of them did die in auto accidents, and
one was hit by a school bus. These days some of them are becoming ill with
various maladies, and some have died, but none of us are spring chickens
anymore.

Cheri