On Mon 26 Sep 2005 08:31:33a, Nancy1 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> 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.

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