happy national peanut day!

[Amby 490]

[Ban Hammer 13,619]

amby, it's peanuts, not #######.

[Welshcookie 17]

[Amby 490]

I didn't say #######

[Nagishkaw 510]

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

I could use a bag right now

[Peikko 1,575]

Did president Carter introduce national peanut day?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

On a similar note - most schools today ask parents not to send their kids to school with anything containing peanuts because so many children nowadays are severely allergic to them. I'm not sure if there's any studies into why this is happening, but it's kinda scary. Thankfully, our children are not allergic to peanuts.

[Peikko 1,575]

On a similar note - most schools today ask parents not to send their kids to school with anything containing peanuts because so many children nowadays are severely allergic to them. I'm not sure if there's any studies into why this is happening, but it's kinda scary. Thankfully, our children are not allergic to peanuts.

Mine either. Not sure, is it really an allergy that is increasing? Or it it simply that people are more aware of the allergy?

[twowls 217]

On a similar note - most schools today ask parents not to send their kids to school with anything containing peanuts because so many children nowadays are severely allergic to them. I'm not sure if there's any studies into why this is happening, but it's kinda scary. Thankfully, our children are not allergic to peanuts.

I read yesterday that the increase is associated with some sort of fungus situation that occurs during storage, and isn't about fresh peanuts per se. But this was an unsupported contention, and doesn't really explain why peanuts specifically would host such a pernicious fungus. Lots of people are allergic to lots of things with far less harmful results. Corn, wheat, soy...

In conclusion, hm weird. But the word certainly needs to be spread that anaphylaxis is not funny. A couple people recently have played practical jokes on friends by slipping them peanuts. That's not a practical joke; that's attempted murder with poison.