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Seagull on the wing

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Sep 22, 2010
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Health and Safety have banned a firm from selling peanuts because it did not have a health warning that this packet contains nuts...er! go into shop and say...I want a packet of peanuts but it must not contain nuts...there are nuts about....
 

clapham_gull

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Aug 20, 2003
25,128
We've heard it to, except we heard it correctly.

The supermarket or the manufacture spotted the issue. It's not about the packets containing nuts, it's about making it very clear that Monkey Nuts ARE peanuts.

Completely sensible due to the nature of the allergy which is on the increase.

The manufacture takes labelling seriously, which is a good thing.
 
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TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
:wrong: Nicely shot down there, clapham fella.
Always amusing when the anti-H&S brigade come-up with their stories. Reckon around 1% of those that I've heard have actually turned out to be rooted in fact.
 

clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
25,128
:wrong: Nicely shot down there, clapham fella.
Always amusing when the anti-H&S brigade come-up with their stories. Reckon around 1% of those that I've heard have actually turned out to be rooted in fact.

Even the Daily Mail struggled to make a story out of it.
 

pastafarian

Well-known member
Sep 4, 2011
11,902
Sussex
seems a bit daft on first glance,but food labeling is a rightly serious subject,especially for those that think only 1% of Health & Safety scares are rooted in fact.These people need protecting and need to be rightly informed Monkey Nuts may indeed be Nut based.
 


Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
.These people need protecting and need to be rightly informed Monkey Nuts may indeed be Nut based.

The specific issue here is that there's two separate major classes of nut allergy - peanuts and tree nuts. People who are allergic to peanuts may or may not be allergic to tree nuts, and not everyone knows the term "monkey nuts".

This is not about putting "may contain peanuts" on peanuts, its about letting Northerners know that monkey nuts = peanuts.
 

clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
25,128
The specific issue here is that there's two separate major classes of nut allergy - peanuts and tree nuts. People who are allergic to peanuts may or may not be allergic to tree nuts, and not everyone knows the term "monkey nuts".

This is not about putting "may contain peanuts" on peanuts, its about letting Northerners know that monkey nuts = peanuts.

And the Southern Irish too of course.
 


Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
49,900
Goldstone
Health and Safety have banned a firm from selling peanuts because it did not have a health warning that this packet contains nuts...er! go into shop and say...I want a packet of peanuts but it must not contain nuts...there are nuts about....

We've heard it to, except we heard it correctly.

The supermarket or the manufacture spotted the issue. It's not about the packets containing nuts, it's about making it very clear that Monkey Nuts ARE peanuts.
But peanuts aren't nuts, they're peas. So they don't contain nuts after all.
 


TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
seems a bit daft on first glance,but food labeling is a rightly serious subject,especially for those that think only 1% of Health & Safety scares are rooted in fact.These people need protecting and need to be rightly informed Monkey Nuts may indeed be Nut based.

Nice try, but it's not me who's being ridiculous here.
 


EDS

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Nov 11, 2012
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My son has a nut allergy and I when I saw him have an anaphylactic shock it was the scariest thing ever. His face swelled up, his throat swelled and he could not breath. Luckily the paramedics were excellent and we had a police escort. The doctors woke him up as he had lost consciousness and within an hour he was out of danger and none the worse for it.

The mere fact that someone who has a child with a nut allergy on here does not know that monkey nuts are peanuts(not having a dig) proves that these things need labelling. Not to mention that its already the biggest pain in the backside to shop when your child has a nut allergy.
 

EDS

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Nov 11, 2012
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I was not actually even sure about coconut until I looked it up and saw it was definitely a fruit. I was almost sure it was not from the nut family but with nut allergies almost is not enough
 

clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
25,128
My son has a nut allergy and I when I saw him have an anaphylactic shock it was the scariest thing ever. His face swelled up, his throat swelled and he could not breath. Luckily the paramedics were excellent and we had a police escort. The doctors woke him up as he had lost consciousness and within an hour he was out of danger and none the worse for it.

The mere fact that someone who has a child with a nut allergy on here does not know that monkey nuts are peanuts(not having a dig) proves that these things need labelling. Not to mention that its already the biggest pain in the backside to shop when your child has a nut allergy.

Yeah it's such a joke isn't it ? Unfortunately a few on here are a bit thick and don't understand how important it is that peanuts are label as such. The very sort of people that probably need protecting from themselves.
 


PILTDOWN MAN

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NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Sep 15, 2004
18,573
Hurst Green
My son has a nut allergy and I when I saw him have an anaphylactic shock it was the scariest thing ever. His face swelled up, his throat swelled and he could not breath. Luckily the paramedics were excellent and we had a police escort. The doctors woke him up as he had lost consciousness and within an hour he was out of danger and none the worse for it.

The mere fact that someone who has a child with a nut allergy on here does not know that monkey nuts are peanuts(not having a dig) proves that these things need labelling. Not to mention that its already the biggest pain in the backside to shop when your child has a nut allergy.

Due to the ignorance of some, labeling has to cater for the lowest common denominator. If one of my children suffered from an allergy I would be extensively read in the condition pretty quickly. Unfortunately many don't furnish themselves with even the basic knowledge.

Added to which all these allergies are on the increase especially in the middle classes due to the ever increasingly pampered, sanitised world they live in. The reaction schools etc have towards nuts will exasperate the situation.
 

Bakero

Languidly clinical
Oct 9, 2010
13,629
Almería
Due to the ignorance of some, labeling has to cater for the lowest common denominator. If one of my children suffered from an allergy I would be extensively read in the condition pretty quickly. Unfortunately many don't furnish themselves with even the basic knowledge.

Added to which all these allergies are on the increase especially in the middle classes due to the ever increasingly pampered, sanitised world they live in. The reaction schools etc have towards nuts will exasperate the situation.

Yep, you're right. It would much easier for parents to research every facet of their child's allergy, then impart this knowledge to the child, than to have clear labelling on products.
 

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