Okay i have to weigh in on the peanut allergy.

We the people who are not able to eat peanuts are not out there to ruin your fun.

When I was coming up in the 70’s these rigid rules were not in place, hell I did not have an Epi-pen until I was 22. My mother educated me and I knew what to eat and not to eat. The problem was that the teachers never took my allergy seriously and often cross contaminated or kids would share lunch with kids and the lunch would have peanuts on celery or something like that. This is why Peanuts are banned from school.

Honestly I have had more nut reactions as an adult than I did as a child because chefs have gone nut crazy—- putting them on green beans, in tuna salad, in quesadillas, as sauce thickener, and things that you do not expect to find nuts in. All I ask is that if a dish has nuts tell me. I usually will always ask a waiter but a cafeteria should have all the ingredients and NOT CROSS CONTAMINATE. No making me nutless cookies in the same pan you made the almond cookies in. Marble slab has to mix my ice cream separately. A guy cannot kiss me after he has eaten peanut butter.

This has been my life. The airplane ban has to do with air circulation. Peanut dust makes my throat itch.

Off soap box.

Thank you and I will take the Milky Way instead of the Plain M&M’s( which have nuts in them by the way)(and so does the nutless flavors of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and all Godiva Chocolate.)