On Thu, 24 May 2007 22:39:38 -0400, in uk.politics.misc duh
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>On Wed, 16 May 2007 18:55:47 +0100
>Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> 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.
I remember those times.........
Half the kids at school had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.
Half the candy bars were peanut clusters of some kind.
Peanuts: raw, boiled, salted, honey roasted..........
The burning societal question was creamy or crunchy.........:-)
I knew one kid with asthma.
Kids with allergies were unusual.
Hospitals did not have children's cancer wards.
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