| But nut allergies are tricky, that's the thing.
I've been allergic my whole life. To all nuts. When I was a kid, two plain M&Ms sent me to the ER in complete respitory arrest because (at the time, anyway) they contained some peanut oil or something in them.
But, as I've grown older, so has my resistance. I'll still get ill if I eat nuts, or if I eat like a stir-fry that's been fried on the same spot where something was just stir-fried in peanut oil. You get the idea. It needs actual contact.
Thus far, "may contain traces of" and "packaged in the same factory where stuff with nuts was packaged" has never had any sort of effect one way or another on me.
And when you realize how omnipresent those labels are... They're everywhere. And you know most of them are there so that people can't sue if they get sick. So I tend to take my chances.
At the same time, my cousin developed his allergy to all nuts as an adult. He is doomed. Can't go anywhere near a nut, near anything that might have come in contact with stuff that came in contact with stuff that touched a nut.
Obviously, he can't go anywhere anything labelled "may contain traces of nuts." But, even then, that's because his reactions are so much more severe, actually life-threatening. It's not because he's ever had an adverse reaction to them. __________________  Sunny
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