On Wed, 16 May 2007 18:55:47 +0100
Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Skin tests for allergies often give false positives. If a third of
> the people who think they've got peanut allergy are in fact
> misinformed, and spend a large part of their lives being
> unnecessarily careful, so what? Nobody *needs* to eat peanut, its
> nutritional role in British diets is insignificant. (I have no
> allergy to the stuff, but I doubt I've eaten any for months - I have
> neither a nutritional nor a social need for it).
In the US peanuts have been hyped as a health food for over a
century. A locally famous scientist name George Wa****ngton
Carver made his career out of promoting the "goober peas."
President Carter was (remains?) a peanut farmer. When I was
young, peanut butter sandwiches amounted to something like
a quarter of my diet. This is not uncommon. Peanut butter, peanut
oil, and peanut crumbs are everywhere. Peanuts are patriotic. It is
politically incorrect to avoid them.
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