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Five Guys' new peanut rule - Page 2 — Brooklynian

Five Guys' new peanut rule

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  • witch-king
    witch-king

    Subject: Re: Five Guys' new peanut rule

    pastoralia wrote: WTF? If they are just trying to save some money be preventing people from leaving with armfuls of peanuts- that's fine but this whole "children have food allergies" crap is so Nanny Nation.

    Seriously, that is so lame. Please tell me some fretting parent didn't breathlessly complain about her precious babies peanut allergy and that's where this all started from.
    OMG! Our peanut entitlement is being taken away!! Someone inform Glen Beck!!!
  • voodoonyc
    voodoonyc
    willregistersoon wrote: [quote=VoodooNYC][quote=dailyheights]
    Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
    Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
    Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
    Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
    Dr. Melik: Incredible.
    This is one of my absolute favorite pieces of dialog from a movie. :D

    Woody Allen?

    Yes, Sleeper. "My brain! That's my second favorite organ!"
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    I had 1 Great Grandparent who lived to be 88, 2 others who lived to be 94 and 97 years old. And, i am positive none of them ever ate a healthy or organic thing in their lives! I know for a fact one of them ate eggs and dairy and butter almost every day of his life and only died after breaking his hip and ended up in the hospital and contracting pneumonia.

    My MIL is 98 now and has eaten crappy, fatty cuts of meat and dairy her entire life, also never touching anything organic or good for you and she is still going strong.
  • easilyfound
    easilyfound
    One of the most bizarre signs I've heard about. Why can't parents watch out for their own kids? Do most kids eat stuff that someone has thrown onto the sidewalk? If the idea is to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction to customers, wouldn't it be best for the nuts and shells to be taken outside of the store? If they're worried about protecting their customers, they should just eliminate nuts from the store, regardless of how much they have been associated with five guys.
  • vidro3
    vidro3
    LongTimeSloper wrote: I had 1 Great Grandparent who lived to be 88, 2 others who lived to be 94 and 97 years old. And, i am positive none of them ever ate a healthy or organic thing in their lives! I know for a fact one of them ate eggs and dairy and butter almost every day of his life and only died after breaking his hip and ended up in the hospital and contracting pneumonia.

    My MIL is 98 now and has eaten crappy, fatty cuts of meat and dairy her entire life, also never touching anything organic or good for you and she is still going strong.
    odds are they did eat organic foods, there was just no need to label them as such in 1940 because all/most food was organic. The use of artificial hormones didn't begin until the 80's and not really in earnest until the mid 1990's.
  • flonflon
    flonflon
    Easily Found said: "Why can't parents watch out for their own kids? Do most kids eat stuff that someone has thrown onto the sidewalk? If the idea is to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction to customers, wouldn't it be best for the nuts and shells to be taken outside of the store? If they're worried about protecting their customers, they should just eliminate nuts from the store"

    My thoughts exactly.

    On one hand, would shells-on-the-sidewalk really be a major health threat? Do parents let their kids roll in them?
    Even if the things blow around: So do wrappers and debris from the heaps of peanut-containing snacks, candy bars, and other foods. By that measure, every NYC sidewalk, schoolyard, and public-private-fastfood trashcan is a deathtrap.

    On the other hand, if they were really that scrupulous, they wouldn't distribute peanuts _at all_.

    So despite the "sensitive" phrasing, it looks as if their sole priorities are (a) handing out peanuts, and (b) avoiding lawsuits (in a city where suing = a major human vital sign).
  • flonflon
    flonflon
    vidro3 wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]I had 1 Great Grandparent who lived to be 88, 2 others who lived to be 94 and 97 years old. And, i am positive none of them ever ate a healthy or organic thing in their lives! ...
    My MIL is 98 now and has eaten crappy, fatty cuts of meat and dairy her entire life, also never touching anything organic or good for you and she is still going strong.
    odds are they did eat organic foods, there was just no need to label them as such in 1940 because all/most food was organic. The use of artificial hormones didn't begin until the 80's and not really in earnest until the mid 1990's.

    My paternal great-grandparents lived into their late 70s-late 80s.
    My maternal great-grandparents, _and_ grandparents, didn't even make it to 60 (!!). [The running macabre joke on that side of the family is, "By our definition, if you make it to 45, you've had a 'good, long life.' ")

    These were all pre-hormone-era folks who didn't smoke, drink, overeat, or have enough leisure time to acquire other bad habits.

    Go figure.
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