What's the deal with airline peanuts?

[Dis]

You can never get the bag open

or there are only like 3 peanuts in the bag.

But no, I miss the honey roasted peanuts. Now days no one has peanuts any more because someone allergic to peanuts will die if they even smell them. If they are that allergic, then they deserve to die . They give you pretzels now. Pretzels are not peanuts. Peanuts have protein in them, pretzels do not.

[Japher]

They should hand out beef jerky.. that would be kewl. Then everyone on the plane will know who the Vegiterians are, and we will all look at them weird.

Peanuts were kewl, what if some is allergic to salt?

She1t if your allergic to peanuts don't eat them!

I like pretzels too though, so I don't really care... It would be nice if they would at least give you the really fat pretzels in stead of the thin Rolls Gold crap.

[Starchild]

If someone's allergic to salt then they're screwed considering the intimacy sodium and chlorine ions have with the transference of electrical impulses along axon membranes and across synaptic gaps.

[Ted Striker]

There's a fine line between:

1) Not getting the bag open
2) Ripping it so hard that they spill everywhere and the person next to you gets a broken nose from your elbow flying off the bag

[Japher]

If someone's allergic to salt then they're screwed considering the intimacy sodium and chlorine ions have with the transference of electrical impulses along axon membranes and across synaptic gaps.

Ya had me up 'till "screwed"

[Ted Striker]

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Japher
She1t if your allergic to peanuts don't eat them!

The peanut dust gets into the air systems. Overtime it can be a bad thing for allegeric people.

[Garth Vader]

When I was young I don't remember all these peanut allergy warnings. Were people dropping like flies back then because their cookies had been made in the same building as something with peanuts?

Or has there been a huge increase in people with peanut allergies? If so why?

[Japher]

Hold your tongue and "I like Peanuts"...

[Solly]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


The peanut dust gets into the air systems. Overtime it can be a bad thing for allegeric people.

Maybe they shouldn't fly.

Then we can all have peanuts.

Alternatively bring your own.

[Japher]

They could give us Peanut M&Ms... then those who like chocolate could suck the chocolate of the M&M and let those of us who like peanuts eat the peanut... and no dust!

[DAVOUT]

Bretzels are dangerous : you almost lost a US President because of them.

[Japher]

Yeah, and we rescued Carter from the peanuts!

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Garth Vader
When I was young I don't remember all these peanut allergy warnings. Were people dropping like flies back then because their cookies had been made in the same building as something with peanuts?

Or has there been a huge increase in people with peanut allergies? If so why?

No, it is likely because one whiny ninny had to make a stink and a lawsuit.

But you are quite correct: The US Aviation industry flew for 6+ decades offering peanuts and NOBODY *****ED ABOUT IT. Guess people were made of sterner stuff than they are today.

[gunkulator]

I thought this thread was going to be like a Seinfeld monologue:

"What IS the deal with airline peanuts?..."