Sunday, June 10, 2007

Peanuts

Ingredient list on the pack of honey-roasted peanuts I bought today:
Peanuts, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Honey, Modified Food Starch, Salt, and
Xanthan Gum. CONTAINS PEANUT INGREDIENTS.

Okay, I know that some people have really horrible food allergies, and that peanuts are among the most common and deadly of these allergies.

But really, if you are deadly allergic to peanuts, and end up buying a product called 'Honey Roasted Peanuts', and the #1 item on the ingredient list is 'Peanuts', does anyone believe that the warning 'CONTAINS PEANUT INGREDIENTS' is going to be what saves a life?

Sometimes, the best thing you can do for someone is just let them go.

2 comments:

LT said...

I believe that person would be a strong contender for a Darwin award.

Jenny said...

On the list of ingredients for a Wild Oats brand of trail mix (paraphrased):

oats, raisins, sunflower seeds, walnuts*, brown sugar, ..., so on and so forth.
*may contain walnuts


Walnuts MAY contain walnuts? No, really? I sent it to Jay Leno's Headlines.