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can’t make peanut butter and jelly and bring it to school anymore.

No, you can't. Too many children apparently have peanut allergies. I wonder why that is.

21 posted on 02/08/2011 9:31:49 AM PST by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.)
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To: proud American in Canada
Too many children apparently have peanut allergies. I wonder why that is.

I'm not a scientist, but I like the soy theory. There wasn't soy in anything when I was a kid, and there were also no peanut allergies. There's soy in everything now, and the plants are related. Why kids would get sensitized to a relative of soy rather than soy itself points to an additional factor.

33 posted on 02/08/2011 9:52:17 AM PST by nina0113
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I don’t remember peanut allergies being a problem before the peanut farmer took office.
I guess we can blame the peanut farmer instead of Reagan or Bush for the allergies.


35 posted on 02/08/2011 9:55:16 AM PST by certrtwngnut
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To: proud American in Canada
So schools are banning peanut butter on account of a few other kids having allergies? Crazy stuff.

We did not have hot lunches until I started going to junior high school and even then, many of us brought lunches from home. It's just the way it was back then.

During elementary school, I had the metal "themed" lunch boxes that they used to sell at the time with the thermoses. I remember having lunch box themes of the Banana Splits, the Archies and the Partridge Family (which will give away my age). Every day for the first six years of school, it would have the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, maybe an apple or a Twinkie and milk in the Thermos.

Point of saying all that is that the parents ought to be able to pack lunches for this kids if they can't afford the "hot lunch" at the school. In fact, schools should be out of the whole business of providing lunches. Let them focus on the pencils and paper and let the parents provide the lunches accordingly.

39 posted on 02/08/2011 10:03:12 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 32 days from outliving Vince Foster)
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To: proud American in Canada

It’s because we no longer give babies honey.


44 posted on 02/08/2011 10:20:32 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: proud American in Canada
No, you can't. Too many children apparently have peanut allergies. I wonder why that is.

Parents conceived during the Carter administration?

48 posted on 02/08/2011 10:45:20 AM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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