I was so relieved that my son was finished school for the summer and starting camp because lunch would be a breeze. His favourite, peanut butter sandwiches, would be back in demand. What else is more practical? They do not need to be refrigerated. They taste way better than a disgusting egg salad or tuna. I would even take a PB and J over a pastrami. Well was I ever in for a fucking surprise. “No peanut products at camp.” What the hell? What happened to the world? And on top of this, lunches were inspected! There are people who have allergies to all kinds of things. Why in the world do people who are allergic to peanuts get such special treatment? For some reason they are worthy of the peanut bubble wrap. I just want to say that I am really disappointed in how the world has progressed. People who can’t eat nuts are totally babied. Well I have two nuts that they can taste that don’t contain peanuts, at least they don’t today. —MacLaw
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2012.
Maybe they get special treatment because they could end up severely ill or dead. I’m sure it’s really because they want to inconvenience you, but just thought I’d throw that one out there.
I always associate PB with welfare cases
I would love to make a clever and/or witty comment about this, but seriously, kids can die from *smelling* nuts.
I LOVELOVELOVE pb, but I hate kids dying after I breath in their faces to find out how my breath is.
Wp
lobster was what the poor kids brought to school when my grandma was young. baloney and peanut butter were luxuries. afaik peanuts are one of the most severe allergies out there, not sure why this has happened in the last few decades
Almond butter is a great alternative.
what about nutella?
Well, there’s always Marmite.
you read my mind clever girl…or vegamite. when you’re camping with aussies, you acquire a taste for it, spread wafer thin
ahem, my theory. reduced breastfeeding, and lack of early exposure to peanuts. peanut butter was one of the first things my newborns ate. that and mashed bananas. dip your finger in the mixture and let them suckle it. ditto mashed potatoes, peas, carrots and good heavens, red beets. oh, and soft boiled eggs, with a bit of butter. babies need to be exposed to more things while they still have mom-antibodies. does anyone know, first hand, of a child who suffered an allergic reaction to being in proximity with something containing peanut, and child was unaware of the item?
MACLAW’s MINDSCAPE
“In the Middle Ages, people believed in the authority of their religion, no matter what. Today, we believe in the authority of science, no matter what.” (Neil Postman, “”Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.” 1992. p.54)
Science has mandated, MacLaw, that peanut products are poisonous. As with so much else, the question is not so much whether this is true or not but rather whether your abject prostration before the the new god of science is warranted. You must never deviate from their “ex cathedra” (I know you won’t understand that) pronouncements. No, MacLaw, never.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
http://www.allergysafecommunities.ca/asset…
seems like a reasonable article. what i found most interesting was the lack of allergic reaction to proximity in blind tests. if a child has been scared out of their wits about ‘peanuts’ by worried parents, he can have a false reaction, based on fear. but in a blind test, none. and other sources, that the number of people who ‘perceive’ their child has a food allergy is far greater than the actual.
agreed good dog, the boy is not allergic to anything. bewbies then a cup to drink from
errr, my youngest was able to walk across the room, climb into my lap and pull up my shirt for nummies. she went from the mommy cow to cow in a cup. the darn boys BIT though! they were off the breasts at 6 months.
between internet hysteria (someone knows someone who knew of this) to drug companies fanning the flames, and everyone feeding parental worries, we have created a monster. and as usual, the kids are the sacrifices. kids with ‘allergies’ are isolated and targeted and enfeebled. entire schools are peanut-free because of one poor kid who shouldn’t EAT anything with peanut components. not sit next to another kid eating a pb&j. or playing with a basketball that the other kids tossed to him, or hanging up his jacket next to the kid who has a peanut butter cookie in his pocket. and all the time scared and rapidly becoming phobic because he has been told he will die if he sees a peanut at 100 paces. not fair.
i think 6 months is a good time to stop but i only had one spawn^^
i had three fruits that sprang from my loins, and the babe mentioned was actually only a year old. it may have sounded like she was riding her 10 speed across the room for nummies.
haha, it’s okay i assumed they weren’t three, that’s not kosher
WTF is Marmite? It sounds like something that kills bugs, or mites, or something. And Vegamite? Does it keep your garden free of slugs?
I never heard of this stuff. BTW…Ob, I love peanut butter, too. I suggest you think of camp pretty much the same as a school setting. There will be kids with allergies. So sorry for the inconvenience.
I love peanut butter myself but it’s a small sacrifice to avoid some kid’s severe allergic reaction.
I’m not sure these allergies are anything new. It just may be diagnosis and reporting are far better.
it’s kinda like molasses but salty http://www.forestryforum.com/gallery/album…
kids today o.p., are nothing but fucking little pussies, who can’t even fight their way out of a wrap of wet shit paper. i remember years back, these type of sandwiches were eaten by fucking near every kid in the world. so what the fuck happened? did this bullshit crop up because someone couldn’t handle it, or was it because they tried to wean kids off them? chocolate is getting the same bad rep, but doctors will actually tell you, get this now, that the darker the chocky, the better it is for you. fights all kinds of shit in your bodies. hell, i could have told them that. and bananas are now the new miracle food too, oh yeah, they have all kinds of bacteria fighting shit in them. which begs to ask, have you ever seen a sick monkey?
Kontee It’s Australian.It looks like meconium,tastes like what I imagine shit would too.
Then there are those who are allergic to Shift Keys.
Australian marmite sounds nasty.
Wasn’t there an article last year that kids might be prevented from bringing anything with potatoes in it to school?
Well, WTF are the school kids in PEI gonna do now??
Does that include the kids who live on potato farms? Imagine. They’re not allowed to come to school because they could have potato ‘residue’ on them and set some kid off into anaphylactic shock.
Jesus. If this was the rule when I went to school on the Island, classrooms would have been very different places.
And I mean, really! A potato?? Who the hell is allergic to a potato?! It’s essentially water and starch. What part of THAT can cause a kid to start doing the funky chicken on the floor??
I have heard the reason why peanut allergies are so prevalent today is because of the evolving of better sanitation and sterilization rules the companies that make these products have adopted or been made to adopt, thus in turn making us less immune to whatever it is that causes the allergic reaction because we can no longer build up immunities. Things are just too clean.
A little dirt don’t hurt. Unless I guess it’s full of deadly germs and bacteria…
Kids aren’t allowed to bring potatoes to school in H.R.M. because of all the drive-by shootings:
http://www.potato-cannons.com/wp-content/u…
Predictably B#D the SP#D is not cooperating with the police.
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this is from the link i posted above, from the allergysafecommunities.ca site, written by an m.d. to ease the fears of parents who have bought into the hysteria.
fact: you are not going to kill a little kid because you have peanut butter on your breath. you won’t even cause him to get a rash, or catch his breath UNLESS his parent is nearby and starts screaming ‘PEANUTS’ , in which case he will fall down and hyperventilate out of sheer bloody panic.
how on earth have we become such sheep, so eager to believe utter crap that shows up on internet forums, chats, passed-around hysterical emails? if something contains more exclamation marks than sentences, it’s probably fake. i guess it’s the same mentality that accounts for the appalling offerings on television. all those ‘reality’ shows that bear not the slightest resemblance to reality in any universe except the miniscule minds of the participants who are willing to eat their own shit to get 15 minutes of fame. i speak figuratively. for now.
Kontee, Marmite is remarkably similar to wheel bearing grease in almost all aspects. Looks, consistancy, texture, viscosity…the only true difference between the two is that bearing grease probably tastes a shitload better!
Marmite is NAAAAASSSTYYYY!!! Blech!
“I met a man from Brussels.
6 foot 4, full of muscles.
I said do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegamite sandwich.
And he saaaid,
I come from the land down under….”
Great! This is going to be stuck in my head all bloody day now!
It’s been deleted from U-toob (Fascist Bastids!) but I used to post a terrific version of that as sung by the Red Army Chorus on an Aussie T.V. show. You can hear the audience roar with laughter as the Russkies sing words like “vegamite” and “chunder”.
I don’t care what you do…
just don’t give the poor kid a pogo for lunch or he’ll be playing the choking game in a matter of days.
William Munny:
“I always associate PB with welfare cases”
When is the last time you saw the price of peanut butter??? It’s practically on the brink of ‘delicacy’!
MACLAW’S MINDSCAPE (II)
“I just want to say that I am really disappointed in how the world has progressed.” MacLaw
My previous post (09/04, 8:07PM) quoting Neil Postman might have been to cryptic for comprehension. His “Technopoly” refers to the shaping of modern consciousness by computer technology. Here’s Postman on the effects of medical techology with its separation of the patient and the disease.
“Although the US and England have equivalent life-expectancy rates, American doctors perform six times as many cardiac by-pass operations per capita as English doctors do. American doctors perform more diagnostic tests than doctors do in France, Germany or England. An American woman has two to three times the chance of having a hysterectomy as her counterpart in Europe; 60 percent of the hysterectomies performed in America are done on women under the age of forty-four. American doctors do more prostate surgery per capita than do doctors anywhere in Europe, and the U.S. leads the industrialized world in the rate of cesarian-section operations – 50 to 200 percent higher than in most other countries. When American doctors decide to forgo surgery in favor of treatment by drugs, they give higher doses than doctors elsewere. They prescibe about twice as many antibiotics as do doctors in the United Kingdom and commonly prescribe antibiotics when bacteria are likely to be present, whereas European doctors tend to prescribe antibiotics only if they know that the infection is caused by bacteria and is serious. American doctors use far more X-rays per patient than do doctors in other countries. In one review of the extent of X-ray use, a radiologist discovered cases in which fifty to one hundred X-rays had been taken of a single patient when five would have been sufficient.” (pp.84-85)
So, my boy. It seems that you have a peanut allergy. I’ll prescribe something for it right now.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Senor “Then there are those who are allergic to Shift Keys”.
?
Please explain.
See any capital letters in blow me/suxster’s posts?
He has two shift keys and he neglects them both.
Why he tortures the comma, pounding that fucker like it’s the clit of a wanton sheep, I’ll never know.
i don’t use the shift key either, because i don’t care. at work i use all caps, at home i use all lower case. whatever is convenient for myself.
how scandalous^^
yah, such a 60’s rebel i am.
You don’t want to be subjected to a peanutbutter sandwich…stay the fuck out of my lunch box !
Oh PLEASE! This is not new, peanuts have been banned from schools for over a decade. It’s pretty much a given in my mind that peanuts are going to banned from any childrens group activities. I’m a mom too and I’m thinking that the people to feel sorry for are the allergic children and their families, imagine knowing that every lunch made by a lazy disgruntled mother had the potential to KILL your child, all because it’s just too hard to smear something else on bread and call it lunch. Get some perspective.
BTW there is “Wowbutter”. A soy-based spread that tastes somewhat like peanut butter.
http://www.wowbutter.com/
people have severe allegies & can die from just smelling it on someone’s breath. Deal with it -Eat that shit at home.