Just Plain Nuts

When GG (my eldest) was in daycare, there was a short period of time when she was in a room with a child with a peanut allergy.  First, let me say that I would not wish that on anyone- the child or the mother- I can only imagine how challenging that can be.  Selfishly, this did cause some challenges for us on the lunch end.  GG was in a PB&J phase, and it was ALWAYS peanut butter and strawberry jelly (with the crusts cut off please).  The rules that came with the "Peanut Free" room were simple but strict- no peanut products of any kind, no nuts in snacks or treats.  When faced with these guidelines, you quickly realize that so much of what your child consumes involves some sort of nut by-product, and not just the obvious PB&J.  The struggles we went through to get that child to eat something else- anything else- for lunch was not easy.   In the end we made it work and hey, she didn't starve.


I was flying back to Georgia from Michigan last week, and sitting in the very large 737 plane. Soon it was time for beverage service, and yep, you guessed it, along came....


Peanuts.


I have often wondered, what happens if you are on a flight and you have a peanut allergy?  Here you are, in this large tin can, 30,000 feet high in the sky, packed in so tight you can barely move your legs- and suddenly find yourself surrounded by tiny foil bags of death?


I find it kind of ironic, thinking back to the peanut free zone at daycare, and all we did to protect one child in a class of 12, and in a group of hundreds we really don't seem to have the same concern.


Besides, Delta can keep their bag of 12 stale peanuts.  Who want to eat them anyway?