>I just spent some time with my daughter and grandchildren and found out, to
>my
>surprise, that when their elementary school has a bake sale no one can bring
>homemade baked items. They must all be bought at the store. She was told
>that
>this was to prevent anyone getting sick (and presumably to prevent the school
>from being sued). This seems totally absurd to me. In all the years I've
>been
>on this planet I have never heard of anyone getting sick from something they
>bought at a school bake sale. Am I off the beam here? What do you think?
>
>Fran

I asked the same question a year or so ago. What I want to know is what's to
stop someone from using a container from the grocery store for their own
homemade product? I'll occasionaly buy things such as cakes or cookies from
the bakery department at the grocery store and I always save the containers for
just such a use. Personally I would boycott a bake sale that required bought
items. They could always ask the person bringing the item if it contains any
nuts or other common allergic ingredients. If on the otherhand if someone who
is allergic to chocolate is stupid enough to buy and eat a pan of brownies then
they deserve to get sick. Yes, I'm bad but I tell it like it is.