jmcquown wrote:
> 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

Ditto. Another odd thing - I don't remember anyone when I was growing
up being lactose-intolerant; yet, that phrase is so common nowadays.
What gives?

N.