Plans to Ban Peanuts from Planes

[Jay]

Should peanuts be banned from planes? - CNN.com

Aimee Katz Zipkin, the mother of a 3-year-old girl with a severe peanut allergy, has been too afraid to get on an airplane with her daughter, worried that passengers enjoying the snacks could endanger the child.

"If you so desire, take a bath in peanuts," she said, "but if you're 30,000 feet up and someone has an allergic reaction, then the plane is going to have to go into emergency landing in God knows where, so why would you want to take that risk?"


The U.S. Department of Transportation's recent proposals for improving air travel include the possibility of banning packets of peanuts to accommodate those allergic to the nuts.
"The Air Carrier Access Act prohibits discrimination by U.S. and foreign air carriers against individuals with disabilities," the proposal reads. "Airline passengers with severe allergies to peanuts have a qualifying disability."

FFS!!! Can't we have our peanuts in peace?

Here's a thought.... let's ban the people with these problems instead of them annoying us for a change.

I CANNOT SMOKE
I CANNOT DRINK
I CANNOT FONDLE THE STEWARDESSES

NOW I CANNOT HAVE PEANUTS

Enough is enough, it's time for a change.

 

[Officer_Charon]

My sentiments exactly! WTF, over? Next they'll e putting labels on coffee, warning of it's temperature........ crap.

Seriously though, if this was an issue, it would have come up LONG before now....

 

[Fun Size]

Fine with me. Last thing I want is to be stuck on a four hour flight next to Charlie Brown and his incessant bitching anyway.

Blockhead.

 

[Hylian]

 

[General Specific]

So wait, that kid is allergic to other people eating peanuts?

How about we make the airlines provide better air instead of just recycling the stale crap around repeatedly thus exposing all passengers to one person's illness or forcing everyone to give up the one thing they like about going on a plane trip, FREE PEANUTS!

 

[Jay]

Fuck, can't find that scene from THE GOODS with Jeremy Piven. I had tears in the eyes by the end of that scene. They robbin' us mah brothah. They force us to take off our pants and shoes when we have to go to the US of A... but... I always knew a pack of peanuts was waiting for me.

 

[Baerdog]

Even without this ban I can't remember the last time I've actually had peanuts on a plane. I miss getting my little bag of honey roasted peanuts!

And Jay, what carrier are you flying? I flew Continental back and forth from New York a couple weeks ago and they were serving (and charging for) alcohol. Unless you were talking about not being able to bring your own drinks aboard, which sucks.

 

[sixpackshaker]

It is a problem now because the allergy rate for peanuts is expanding greatly.

That and all those packs of peanuts on a plane starts to cost the carriers more fuel.

 

[Soliloquy]

There are a small percentage of people who are so allergic to peanuts that opening a package in the same room as them can cause them to go into shock.

That said, the percentage is very small, and I think it would be just fine to ban peanuts on the specific flights that these select few people travel on, if they call ahead.

Though there are some people opposed to doing even that. I remember getting into an argument with ZenMonkey on this very subject a while ago.

 

[Jay]

A wise man once said, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few.

 

[Cajungal]

^Agreed (with Soliloquy). I think that allowances should definitely be made for people who have that severe allergy. Otherwise, it should be ok to have them. Still, I can't get that worked up over what type of snack I'm given on a flight. If a bored woman in a blouse and pencil skirt never hands me another bag of honey roasted nuts, I think I'll still have a happy and fulfilling life.

 

[Baerdog]

But.....but honey roasted peanuts are the best kind of peanuts!

 

[Jay]

Pencil skirts rock my world... not as much as free roasted peanuts though.

 

[Cajungal]

But.....but honey roasted peanuts are the best kind of peanuts!

You know that you can also purchase them, right? And you don't have to sit with smelly people or watch a boring movie while you eat them.

 

[Fun Size]

But.....but honey roasted peanuts are the best kind of peanuts!

You know that you can also purchase them, right? And you don't have to sit with smelly people or watch a boring movie while you eat them.[/QUOTE]

Dude, I told you it wasn't me, and how was I supposed to know Nine would be so damned slow. It's a musical for god's sake.

 

[Cajungal]

But.....but honey roasted peanuts are the best kind of peanuts!

You know that you can also purchase them, right? And you don't have to sit with smelly people or watch a boring movie while you eat them.[/QUOTE]

Dude, I told you it wasn't me, and how was I supposed to know Nine would be so damned slow. It's a musical for god's sake.[/QUOTE]

You lifted your leg up. Of course it was you! Hogging the 7-layer dip all evening then tellin' me you didn't let one fly...

 

[Hylian]

I don't fly often enough to be real concerned over this but even if I did fly I don't think it would be to huge of an inconvenience not to be allowed peanuts on a flight. But the sheer panic and over reaction a lot of people have concerning peanuts really annoys me. I know that some people are deadly allergic to them but most are just over protective parents/whiny hypochondriacs.

 

[Soliloquy]

A wise man once said, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply when the "needs of the many" is to eat peanuts, and the "needs of the few" is to not die.

Though that's just me pushing my bizarre brand of morality on people.

 

[Shawn]

I am allergic to recycled air. I demand that the plane fly at an altitude that allows me to crack a window.

 

[Azurephoenix]

Anyone who thinks that having a peanut allergy is something to be taken lightly can quite frankly be eaten by a grue.

I'm deathly allergic to peanuts, even from extremely tiny amounts. The smell of them makes also me very ill (though it has yet to be enough to cause a full blown anaphylactic reaction)... and I have yet to see if I can induce a reaction by staying in a room with someone eating them (I get the hell out of there).

*takes a deep breath*

That being said... I have yet to encounter a problem on an airplane. I haven't been on a flight for decades that served peanuts... and I haven't seen (or smelled) anyone eating peanut products on any of the flights I've been on. Still, it always worries me... and I wonder what I'm going to do if I ever end up having a severe reaction on a plane. As long as we're over land I guess we get to make an emergency landing. If we're over the ocean, I guess I die when the epinephrine wears off.

 

[Fun Size]

But if you make it, you have a sweet story about how you got one of those long needled plunged into your chest like in Pulp Fiction. That's gotta be worth something, right?

 

[Rob King]

I know it's selfish, but I get bothered when some place puts up new restrictions. For example, I smoke maybe once every month or two, but it bothers me to no end that the legislation in this province is so uncompromisingly anti-smoking. Even if (or rather ... when, because I know it's happened) a bar wants to include a fully ventilated smoking room away from the rest of the patrons, it isn't allowed for some reason.

Similarly, peanut products were banned from my high school, so I never got to bring any delicious Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches to school. I realize it's good for people with peanut allergies to not die, but sometimes a man just really wants a little impossible-to-open package of peanuts on his flight.

 

[Wasabi Poptart]

Even without this ban I can't remember the last time I've actually had peanuts on a plane.

Same here. Usually it's a crappy little bag of pretzels, if anything.

 

[Denbrought]

I don't care, I like the peanuts but I am able to eat pretty much anything edible (except plane-food salads), I'm sure the substitute will be good 'nuff. The straw that set off a tactical nuke on the camel's back was taking off the shoes, for me, so eh.

Edit: Regarding peanut availability, I fly delta quarterly and I can't remember the last time I didn't have a bag of peanuts. I think I was flying KLM? The dutch prefer ground-up sunflowers, probably.

 

[Azurephoenix]

Here's a thought.... let's ban the people with these problems instead of them annoying us for a change.

I'm glad to see you're so understanding on this issue.

 

[LordRendar]

Here's a thought.... let's ban the people with these problems instead of them annoying us for a change.

I'm glad to see you're so understanding on this issue.[/QUOTE]

How dare your needs outweigh my needs! /jk
Seriously though,I really dont care if they serve peanuts on a plane or not.They dont still hunger and just make your more thirsty.

 

[Null]

I really can't get excited about this issue. Yeah, it's a minor inconvenience and I'm wary of anything that smacks of the nanny state, but I've only been on one round trip flight in my life, and if I didn't get peanuts the next time I flew, I probably wouldn't notice.

 

[Krisken]

I has a sad.

 

[makare]

I was surprised to hear about this because I had thought they already had done it.

 

[Baerdog]

Even without this ban I can't remember the last time I've actually had peanuts on a plane.

Same here. Usually it's a crappy little bag of pretzels, if anything.[/QUOTE]
On my Continental flights just a few weeks ago we didn't get pretzels either. On the way there we got a chicken wrap thing, a salad and a twix and on the way back it was a rice and some-kind-of-meat burrito, chips, and a Hershey bar! So that was actually pretty neat. The food was pretty good too, as far as airline food goes. So yeah, hooray Continental.

 

[Morphine]

Bollocks!
My canadian nephew is SEVERELY allergic to nuts and has travelled by plane all the way from Canada to Mexico twice a year, every year for the last 6 years and nothing has ever happened to him. Pssh... these overprotective mothers just have to screw everything for all of us u_u

Sincerely yours,
Peanut lover.

 

[checkeredhat]

I actually thought they already were banned. Only times I've ever flown, they've given out bags of pretzels, never peanuts.

And honestly, better air likely wouldn't help even. Just enjoy your peanuts when you get home.

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But if you make it, you have a sweet story about how you got one of those long needled plunged into your chest like in Pulp Fiction. That's gotta be worth something, right?

Like they'd let you bring an epipen onboard.

 

[Krisken]

Maybe these over protective mothers have peanut envy.



What?

 

[Troll]

I'm allergic to shellfish. I demand that every restaurant I might go into immediately ban the sale of shellfish. You can't be too careful, after all!

 

[Azurephoenix]

Like they'd let you bring an epipen onboard.

They almost didn't when I flew to Maui last year... I had a prescription for it and everything. Thankfully one of the higher ups actually knew what the hell it was and gave it back to me and sent me on my way.

I'm allergic to shellfish. I demand that every restaurant I might go into immediately ban the sale of shellfish. You can't be too careful, after all!

First off... sorry to hear you're allergic to shellfish.

Second... there is a big difference between choosing a restaurant to eat at (I have plently of options even with my peanut allergy) and not being able to fly because of an allergy.

My canadian nephew is SEVERELY allergic to nuts and has travelled by plane all the way from Canada to Mexico twice a year, every year for the last 6 years and nothing has ever happened to him. Pssh... these overprotective mothers just have to screw everything for all of us u_u

There's also a big difference between being allergic to nuts and peanuts. Peanuts aren't even actually a nut. I don't think they give out bags of almonds or cashews on planes (not that I've encountered anyways).