What if "Jimmy is allergic to Pasta" was pre-proclaimed due a sneeze while ingesting some 'saghetti'! History would need to be rewritten!

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Eddieepipen doesn't have the same ring to it.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

How 'bout you, jimmy? You a poison oak man?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

They need something to talk about with the other moms.

Made up problems with your kids are the new trophies.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I have developed allergies but I don't take anything. It's probably Corgi fur. That dog has been shedding really bad.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

No fucking doubt!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Honestly?

I feel like the influx of food allergy cases in children has a direct link to all the stuff women are no longer allowed to eat, or won't allow themselves to eat when they're pregnant. Case in point, we have a friend who wouldn't eat peanuts when she was pregnant. She said her nutritionist ( ) told her they were bad for the fetus. Her kids now have a sever peanut allergy.

My wife and I have discussed this, and she is determined that unless it's something truly awful (mercury in shellfish, for example), she won't cut it out. Everything should be done in moderation, and there is a severe lack of that these days.

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Baby cows do not have a rumen either. It's obvious why its socially acceptable. Because the cultures of northern Europe have been doing it for thousands of years -- thriving on a cheap and nutritious food source.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

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You know me like that.

No sir, the only one who will be chugging vodka in my house is me.

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My wife accidentally picked up a bottle of nail polish remover instead of water and drank it when she was pregnant. That kid tests out off the top of the scales academically.

Food for thought.

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You know me like that.

Did it happen to be after an Illini football loss?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Well something has changed to make all airlines stop my free peanuts.

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Elections have consequences.

This too. The anti-vaccine "I know better than doctors and science" crowd love to self diagnose. We know a couple of these people. They deserve to die of whatever malady their child (or my child because their child is not vaccinated) gets.

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One time I had a preschool kid come up to me as it was my turn to bring snacks. He says I am allergic to red dye #4. I was like who the hell knows that? Of course, I am glad the kid did know but either something changed in all our food in the last 20 years or parents are up to weird ideas.

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Elections have consequences.

Spot on. I had to listen to my wives sister tell me how red dye 20 makes her two year old boy hyper. She read it in a magazine. Then my daughter who is three was scared about dye in food as she told it to her too

Interesting thought. My wife ate more peanuts during her pregnancy than is seen at a George Washington Carver revival. Neither of us have any food allergies . Little guy had bad eczema first year or so. We tried a variety of lotions and things and couldn't figure out why it didnt improve much . Finally took him to allergist and boom there it was. Allergy to peanuts that he kept getting thru breast milk as my wife continued to eat peanut butter. Once she stopped eating them his eczema cleared up and has been fine ever since .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

That's not really case in point though. I've read that peanut allergies in US children doubled from 1997 to 2002 but there is no evidence that the people were eating more/less peanuts or the awareness of food allergies increased. What changed is the mfg processes and food supply. There is a protein in soy that cross reacts with peanuts. GMO soy was put into the food supply in 1996. There were similiar results in the UK with soy allergies after GMO were put in their supply in 1999. Dry roasting nuts also increases the allergenicity, boiling and frying does not. The countries that boil and fry have lower allergy rates than the ones that don't.

It might not be it though. Could be water supply like Panther posted, could be pesticides, could be something else. Nobody knows, nobody really cares, and nobody running the food supply or government will blow the whistle on this.

I'm allergic to Good Dolphin's posts. I read them and break out in hives.

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Coincidence .... not causality.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

My daughter was never dx with an allergy but had pretty severe eczema as a baby. I did a lot of poking around and talking to drs on the cause. I also believe I have food intolerences and have changed my lifestyle. I think I'm better off.

It might not be it though. Could be water supply like Panther posted, could be pesticides, could be something else. Nobody knows, nobody really cares, and nobody running the food supply or government will blow the whistle on this.

It's not GMO. There isn't one piece of evidence that suggests it it any more than evidence suggests it's voodoo.

Pesticides in the water supply starts to sound interesting. It kinda seems that, across the board, the quality of everyone's water supply is not as high as it was 30, 40, 50 years ago. It is, however, almost certainly a number of different factors, irrespective of Occam's Razor.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I don't know why people are so sure one way or another.

This is the internet. We know everything.

List of items only to be enjoyed at home:

Peanut butter
Red dye #4
Porn
CSFMB


hmmm

The first student my wife had with recognized food allergies was back 20-25 years ago- poor kid was allergic to grass among other things. Very restrictive diet. He's now an adult, coached my son in soccer a few years, but I will have to follow up with him about those allergies, I see no limit on his intakes now.

She had a girl with life-threatening foods allergy a few years ago, and by the end of the year it was clear to be a helicopter single mom issue more than anything else- the list was shortened considerably. The EPI pen training was probably worthwhile in the long run.

We have been hybridizing plants for specific results for a century or more, were we just lucky with the results in the past, or was information on the rejection just less known? I don't grow peanuts, but I have not heard of much GM of peanut plants, maybe it is a widespread as with corn or soybeans.

Poison Oak is nice...