Ranee Mueller wrote:

> While I think it is ridiculous to say that my son can't have a pb & j
> in his own lunch box when they already have strictly enforced rules
> about no sharing, we don't send them. We also don't send cookies with
> nuts in them, even though they are better, and we don't send peanut
> butter cracker snacks (though that's what is in his earthquake kit,
> because it was before we were told about the rule). It is ridiculous to
> make your allergy my responsibility, beyond asking me to let you know
> that something might have nuts in it. If the person would really die
> from miniscule amounts of nut dust, then _anything_ from our home is
> unsafe, because we don't keep our baking stuff and nuts and peanut
> butter all encapsulated and sterile and segregated from everything else.
> I still wonder how all these people who are deathly allergic to nuts
> even manage to get through a grocery store or bakery alive.
>


It seems that a peanut allergy has become almost "fashionable" for a kid to
have - kind of like ADD. I'm not discounting that in fact some people have
peanut allergies but yes, your allergy is not *my* responsibility, at least
in the public realm. The onus to protect your kid or whoever is on you, not
me...

It has gotten to the point where peanut products are considered more "evil"
than tobacco, fer cryin' out loud...

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Best
Greg