Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill
I grew up in peanut country. All the kids helped during the harvest. Everyone and everything was covered in peanut dust. During that same time, there was government peanut butter for the poor and for the schools. Every day, the lunchroom ladies put some form of peanut butter on our trays. A peanut butter cookie. A Dixie cup of peanut butter and honey. A blob of peanut butter with an apple. No one ever died of a peanut allergy.
That’s not saying there isn’t such a thing as people are allergic to various things. There’s ragweed allergies in the Spring which is a major complaint right now. When I was little, mom thought I was allergic to the red dye or flavoring in strawberry soda because I’d break out in hives but apparently I grew out of that quickly.
Truth be told, there are much worse ickies on shopping carts than peanut butter and jelly.
Geez, I clean every cart every time with about 20 wipes they provide. Just because you can’t see the germs doesn’t mean they aren’t there....old peoples hands go a lot of places too. Too many who do not wash hands after toilet or dog rear ends on the seats. A kid eating a sandwich in public doesn’t bother me...what about all those who can’t be without their giant coffee cups...or nose pickers
Eating PB&J sandwiches in public?
Just another example of White Privilege. Dontcha know.
My parents grew up in a world where for a meal, or consuming any food, you washed your hands, dressed suitably for the occasion and sat down together with utensils, plates or bowls also suitable to the place and occasion. A meal was a family gathering and social ritual. Mind you, my parents were working class too.
Abandoning these attitudes and rituals is part of the reasons Americans are so obese now.
“We never had autism either. “
Or ADHD-———those kids,and I had one,were called “antsy” or “class clowns”.
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Having dealt with extended illnesses in my children, I can imagine. I would assume that all shopping carts and everything else in public was contaminated with whatever substance/allergen concerned me. I would - and did - take personal responsibility to protect my own child, rather than counting on everyone else in the world to think of everything that might somehow go wrong.
Doctors are now saying expose babies to little bits of pb so they won’t have allergies later on. Makes sense.
The Moms (b*tches) on that forum will be the exact same ones, whipping out a boob in public to breastfeed.
And don’t you DARE question them on THAT! *Rolleyes*
I guess if she gave the kid a chicken nugget Happy Meal that would be A-OK?
I know. It is like going into an online medical forum to find out how bad some condition is that you just found out you have.
By the time you reach the bottom of the first page, you will want a cyanide capsule, noose, and firing squad all at the same time to ensure your hopeless, terminal condition doesn’t find a way to catch up to you first.
I can’t imagine going into a parenting forum.
Good luck with that. None of the grocery stores in my area bother to do it. I always end up having to throw garbage away that people leave in them.
The pro-mandatory vax people will simply say that the peanut allergies, like autism, were previously undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed. LOL!
But if the mom were starving the kid to death on a vegan diet they would have praised her.
That’s the thing: Personal Responsibility.
No one has a right to make everyone else change their lives to accommodate their problems.
“She should realize Americans are meant to eat in the car...”
LOL! While texting and applying mascara, too! ;)
Knew a woman who insisted the sitter take her toddler outside to play but didn’t want it getting in the grass. What, make the child sit in a chair on the porch and twiddle her thumbs?
While I don’t doubt they exist, I don’t think they are as prevalent as we are led to believe.....................
-PJ
Same here. I grew up in the 50's. My oldest sister graduated high school in 1958. We never heard of any peanut allergies.
"What caused the prevalent onset of peanut allergies?"
Jimmy Carter?
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