Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill
A mother on a New York parenting blog wrote Monday that while shopping at the retailer, she gave her four-year-old daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and "a woman stopped me to lecture me about peanut allergies." The child's mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public. The anti-peanut butter backlash was swift and brutal. Most responses attacked the mother for potentially endangering children with peanut allergies. Some criticized her for feeding her daughter in a shopping cart, which they considered disgusting. "That's really inconsiderate," one person wrote. "So many kids have life threatening allergies to peanut butter. Eating it in a shopping cart GUARANTEES it will be smeared on the handle, etc. It's really awful you would do this. Sorry, but imagine if it were your child with the allergy."
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What the hell has changed?
Exactly! I ate PB&J nearly every day when I was in grammar school. Never got sick of it.
My husband and I attend a lot of MLB and minor league baseball games each year. Just about everybody eats peanuts. So far I haven't heard any angry parents complain about the peanuts or their shells, which are everywhere: on the ground, on and under the seats, floating in the air onto people's clothes, etc.
A glass of milk, a knife and a jar of peanut butter, is a snack for me.
Perhaps the obsession with every perceived danger, is actually creating the danger in the first place.
And peanuts are actually, this year at least, are good for you. It’s hard to keep up.
It sure IS hard to keep up, LOL. Are eggs OK today, or are they on the Verboten list again??
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