JimLane wrote:

> And when one of them dies or ends up in a hospital because they ingested
> something you did not have the courtesy to consider letting them know
> about, let us know about your attitude change.


It is possible for people to be allergic to almost anything. Sometimes
it is a well-known allergy like to peanuts, but someone somewhere might
have a deadly reaction to something weird like saffron or Marsala. If
guests ask me about the ingredients in a dish, I'm always glad to tell
them just like I'm glad to talk about recipes and food here. It is one
of my favorite subjects. But if a guest expects me to warn her that
there's peanuts in the peanut brittle, dairy in the ice cream and ginger
in the homemade gingerale, all I can say is that I'll be glad Darwinism
is at work with no change in attitude. It's the responsibility of the
guests to ask the questions necessary to safeguard health, not the host
to consider every weird food reaction and provide warnings. Oh, and
here's a polite gesture on my part: Don't take naps in the middle of
busy highways; you might get hit by a car.


--Lia