Though, to be fair, peanuts are far more common in the environment than shellfish is.
You may be a rarer individual, but your world is far more dangerous.
That explains the dirty looks I get when I give my kid a shrimp cocktail to get them to shut up while I shop at Target.
That’s why I don’t bother with the shrimp.
You’re talking madness, Bone. Rhiannon8404 has already exposed the rock-solid theorem that even the smallest of children, if raised with even the slightest modicum of discipline, can take charge of their own biochemistry and metabolism and march in lockstep as the adults do, squelching with Vulcan-like restraint the need to satisfy their own hunger. The children who must feed at inconvenient times only do so because they are spawned of incompetent parents.
The local HyVee has a couple baskets of fruit close to the entrance so you can give it to your child to occupy them while you shop.
Sandwich? Not sure. I do know that my wife who has a peanut allergy had a severe reaction to some non-nut ingredient thai food at a co-workers party simply because it was in the same bag as a dish that had peanut sauce as an ingredient.
Kind of puts a damper on the whole evening when you have to give yourself an epi-pen injection and then say good-bye to everyone as they drive you away in an ambulance.
I got bad news about what’s actually in cocktail sauce, hon.
Seriously with this? I’ll be sure to tell the next breast-feeding woman I see “Hey, why don’t you go sit in the car and feed that thing!”
:rolleyes:
That you got it from a restaurant that uses things like peanut sauce tells me that it was probably cross contamination on the food. The employees did not clean things well enough before preparing her order. I doubt it came from just being in the same bag.
If I had an allergy like that, I would never eat in restaurants. Of course, I don’t have an allergy like that, and I never eat in restaurants, so there you go.
Who said anything about sauce?
Shrimp cocktail, minus the shrimp, is just a cocktail, right? 
No, IMO, it’s not unacceptable and I’ve never heard of anyone having an allergy so severe that it would cause a problem. I can understand consuming it, but having a reaction because it’s in the air, I’m guessing is extremely rare.
Yes, I may be lactose intolerant.
I opened this thread intending to say no, but have changed my mind in this case. Eating at a lunch table is okay because that will be wiped down between uses. Little kids are messy eaters, and are likely to get PB&J on the cart handle that could harm the next kid who rides in the cart.
Upon seeing the thread title, it didn’t even occur to me that this was about allergies. I thought it was about the aesthetics of it (there’s no way to eat peanut butter in public that looks good, and I almost thought the OP meant eating it with a spoon from a jar.)
No, allergies shouldn’t make it unacceptable - that’s just too snowflake-ish. I do think it’s a bad idea to feed a child in a cart in Target because it could make a food mess, but that’s not allergy related.
That being said, 0.6% of the American populace being allergic to peanuts is far higher a rate than I’d thought.
They are also likely to spit, chew, even urinate or defecate in that seat.
At every grocery store around here, next to the carts is a cylinder of wipes. You can wipe own the cart before putting your child in, if you have a concern about peanut butter. (Or spit and/or waste products)
You know what else goes in carts? Peanuts and peanut butter. It’s a grocery store.
Unacceptable? No. A bit trashy in a cart at Target though.
Since trace amounts can be deadly for someone with a severe allergy, this means that any parent who feeds their kid peanut butter at home needs to scrub the kid’s hands and face with Ajax and a Brillo pad for twenty minutes before they head out, lest there be peanut residue that ends up on the grocery cart (or anywhere else in public).
:rolleyes:
Agreed - except that “allergic to peanuts” encompasses allergic reactions that range all the way from a slight rash on the lips to instant death. My guess is that people who experience an “instant death” reaction are a small percentage of that 0.6%.
Around here, peanut butter is sold in sealed containers and you can be sure that it’s not going to be smeared on things in the store, unless someone hands a little kid a glob of it. Yes, you can wipe down the cart. You can also make sure your kid doesn’t make a mess by not feeding them in a store.
Normal parents already wash their children’s hands.
With brillo pads? Man, parents today are hardcore.
Are we sure that the outside of a peanut container is completely allergen free?
That only prevents them from making a mess of their food. It doesn’t keep their drool and other bodily fluids from making a mess.
Probably not well enough to prevent someone from having an allergic reaction, if they are so prone to a reaction that they would be harmed by someone eating peanuts around them.