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 RatBot wrote:
Yeah, this is pretty dumb. I mean, Holy gak peanuts contain peanuts!? STOP THE PRESSES.

Also, I've never heard the term "monkey nuts" but all it would take is a even split-second glance at the package to see what they are.

And I say all this as someone who is allergic to them.

You must always assume people will be idiots, because they are.

Oh dear.

I think I need a lie down.

Take the warning labels off everything and let nature run its course.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:
I think labelling the product is not unreasonable.

But I do take issue with schools that ban peanut products. If someone is so violently allergic to peanuts, they should either take the risk in public school, or be home schooled. There are plenty of disastrous allergies that do not receive the kind of accommodation that peanut allergies do.

Well, there's that whole suffocation thing... That's fairly common. However, my school has plenty of people with peanut allergies, and over 1200 students. Nobody bothers with banning allergens. They expect the sufferers to have some degree of reason along with the rest of the students (a poor decision in a secondary school, but that's a different subject) and to just say something.

Outright bans are stupid, but I have to admit if somebody didn't know what a monkey nut actually was, it could lead to complications. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.

How many of them are actual peanut allergies?

I think this SNL skit is relevant.

They should put the label back on, but change the wording.


"Warning: As you can see from examining the product, this package contains peanuts. Yes, real peanuts. Whats that? You want to know if it was processed in a plant that also processes tree nuts? Duh, of course it was. If any of this is surprising to you, I recommend you eat a whole pack, maybe get some Reeses too. The genepool could use the thinning out.

You know, it's easy for you sensible people to say "Well, it's just common sense! If it says peanuts on the package it must be peanuts!" but there are reasons for rules like this. There are a certain number of people who cannot make that connection and that's why we have dumb rules like this. Common sense isn't so common, you know.


It's still fricking funny.

Some things it makes sense, others its just stupid.

You might not know there could be nut residue in a particular candy. But anyone that doesn't know peanut butter contains peanuts could do with removal from the genepool.

Yes, if someone is unfamiliar with the name, having a bad day, whatever, they deserve to die. The lives of people who make a mistake are not just worth less than those of us intelligent people, but they aren't worth anything at all and should just end it by triggering a fatal allergic reaction.

No, that's dumb. The value of your life isn't based on how smart or strong or not allergic to peanuts you are.

And then there are the people that take everything completely seriously.

And I've yet to meet anyone that would be sooo distracted they couldn't tell a bag of peanuts contains peanuts.

I would've gone more with the angle that if they're paying that little attention then they're probably not going to notice the warning label either.

That too of course.

I.... wait what?

"Peanuts may contain peanuts"

Someone needs to be slapped at the government agency responsible for this sort of thing.


I'm not saying we should kill all the stupid people, I do think we should take all the warning labels off things and let the problem take care of itself.

 MetalOxide wrote:
I remember taking a peanut butter sandwich into primary school when I was in year four. My parents didn't realise that peanuts were banned at that school and the teachers threw my sandwich away and marched me to the medical room to wash my hands. I was extremely upset.

Wow, just wow.

The thing is, the labaling is a legal requirement.

Yes, it says what it is on the front, but the point is that there is very specific requirements about how some allergens must be labled. It is not so much this product as much as there is a clear rule and once you make one exception for something that is obvious you start having other exceptions. Yes, it is obvious they contain nuts. It is obvious peanut butter contains nuts. What about satey sauce? Everyone knows that is a peanut sauce don't they? etc...

As for the school thing, thats just dumb. There are people with allergy to most things. Wheat can also cause anaphylaxis, yet I don't see schools banning the bread as well as the peanut butter... Peanuts seem to have got people paranoid for some reason.

Fun fact for you, people with walnut allergy can have a reaction from having sex with someone who has eaten walnuts in the past 48 hours.

Actually I think I must have a nut allergy.

I ordered a curry the other night and that came with nuts sprinkled over the top, it was a bit spicy so I washed it down with 6 or 7 pints.

The next morning the bloody nuts had given me a pounding headache and bad breath?

Bloomin' nuts!.....and the was no fething label either now I think on it!

If I had a potentially fatal allergy then I’d go out of my way to ensure that I knew exactly what food stuffs I could or could not be exposed to without needing huge warning labels.

I’d say that this whole story is rather patronising to those with nut allergies as it assumes that they are so stupid that they lack such basic knowledge.

Thats why the have the legal requirement that all products be labled with the details no matter how stupid it may seem.

Trust me, checking for allagens is not easy sometimes. My wife has a wheat allegy (not causing anaphylaxis at the moment) but the lables mean you can check quickly and easily. Its all well and good saying you would check carefully, but you would be supprised at some of the names used for things. Without the labels you often have no way of knowing if something is produced from something you have an allagy to or is at risk of cross contamination.

As I said, its not so much about the product as one rule for all leaving no gray area. If it has one of a group of allagens in it must be listed in a particular way to avoid any problems.

.....or children.

To be fair we laughed at it when we got a polite note asking us not to give our daughter peanut butter but on consideration it can be difficult to over see two dozen four year olds at lunchtimes. So there is some validity to being careful in that situation.

 BlapBlapBlap wrote:
Outright bans are stupid, but I have to admit if somebody didn't know what a monkey nut actually was, it could lead to complications.

if somebody didn't know what a monkey nut actually was, it could lead to complications except for the fact that the package looks like this...



If you have a peanut allergy you would clearly not buy this package of "Roasted Monkey Nuts" to snack on...


Edit: I hovered over the picture and I though the tooltip said "Double click to eat" when it clearly says "Double Click to edit" (I am going to sleep now. Goodnight everybody!)

And nowhere on that package does it have the legal label for what is actually inside of it.

It might be on the back.

 d-usa wrote:
And nowhere on that package does it have the legal label for what is actually inside of it.

This is the sad fact of the original article. Peanuts are required to be labelled as containing peanuts.

Which is all kinds of crazy and unnecessary.even given the name Monkey Nuts

A Butterfingers or snickers I could well understand.

Even peanut brittle or peanut butter or Pecans or Walnuts.

Hell I have just checked on the 2 cartons of milk in my fridge,by the standards applied, they should have labeling advising the lactose content. But they don't.

Normally I think everything about life is stupid, but then again, this law is not hard to follow. Just shut up and do it already.

Now I shall get back to my bag of squirrel nut zippers.

 Mr. Burning wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
And nowhere on that package does it have the legal label for what is actually inside of it.

This is the sad fact of the original article. Peanuts are required to be labelled as containing peanuts.

Which is all kinds of crazy and unnecessary.even given the name Monkey Nuts

A Butterfingers or snickers I could well understand.

Even peanut brittle or peanut butter or Pecans or Walnuts.

Hell I have just checked on the 2 cartons of milk in my fridge,by the standards applied, they should have labeling advising the lactose content. But they don't.

I just checked my Peanut Butter, other than the Ingredient list there is no warning that says it contains peanuts.

 d-usa wrote:
And nowhere on that package does it have the legal label for what is actually inside of it.

Your point being?

 DeathReaper wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
And nowhere on that package does it have the legal label for what is actually inside of it.

Your point being?

If its the law, the follow the law.

It's not that hard of a concept really except for people on the Internet who like to complain about stuff.

Where is all this outrage over the fact that apples have a little sticker on then that says "Apple"?

d-usa wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
And nowhere on that package does it have the legal label for what is actually inside of it.

Your point being?

If its the law, the follow the law.

It's not that hard of a concept really except for people on the Internet who like to complain about stuff.

Where is all this outrage over the fact that apples have a little sticker on then that says "Apple"?

I think that sticker is usually to identify a UPC code or at least identify the type of apple, fwiw

This is why I sewed a patch on my blue jeans that says "Warning. Contains nuts."

You know. For the ladies.

I'd be more worried about those "Monkey Nuts" coming from China...

 kronk wrote:
This is why I sewed a patch on my blue jeans that says "Warning. Contains nuts."

You know. For the ladies.

Do you have a matching hat?