On Fri 23 Sep 2005 10:10:12a, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Gabby wrote:
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> I didn't think they still gave out peanuts on planes. Whenever I
>>> fly, which is a heck of a lot in the last couple of years, you get a
>>> bag of pretzels or a granola bar. What if someone is allergic to
>>> the oats used in granola? Or has a sensitivity to flour used in the
>>> pretzels? At some point a person has to be responsible for
>>> themselves and not expect the world to kow-tow just because they
>>> have an allergy. A person with such severe allergies should carry an
>>> epi-pen. My 2 cents.
>>
>> Peanut allergy is one of the few I know of where the allergic person
>> can die because YOU ate peanuts. Just the opening of bags of peanuts
>> on a plane can trigger an anaphylactic reaction. I'm not aware of
>> anyone ever dying because someone else ate wheat.
>>
>> The epi-pen is a stop-gap measure to buy time while you haul ass to
>> the nearest ER. Depending on the flight, an ER may not be accessible
>> in enough time for the epi-pen to be worth anything. All it would do
>> is prolong death.
>>
>> FWIW, not all airlines have stopped offering peanuts. A few have
>> taken the attitude of some of the posters he your allergy is your
>> problem, not ours.
>>
>> Gabby
>
> I generally fly Northwest (although with the bankruptcy that will
> probably stop) or Delta. I've never been offered peanuts on any of
> their flights. Call me insensitive, but I still don't believe it is the
> airlines responsibility to worry about a single customer possibly having
> a food allergy. You get 150 people on a plane and they are supposed to
> change their policy because they might have one passenger with a peanut
> allergy? You know that's not how big business works.
>
> And a lot of people bring their own snacks on the plane with them; I
> know I do (usually cheese crackers, but sometimes evey PB crackers!).
> What are they supposed to do, start confiscating anything with peanuts?
> I, for one, would protest.
>
> I also do not remember anyone having peanut allergies when I was a kid
> in the 1960's. I took a PB sandwich for lunch every day and no one ever
> got ill from being around me while I was eating it. I can't comment on
> why this has become so prevalent; I can only comment on personal
> experience which is this: no child around me ever had an allergic
> reaction when I was eating my lunch.
>
> Jill
>
>
>

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