I have been searching the net recently and reading with interest how people react if they are told an airline they are flying with has taken peanuts off due to an allergic person on board, some of the comments are so blue I wouldn’t be able to post them on here, so this has got [...]
I have been searching the net recently and reading with interest how people react if they are told an airline they are flying with has taken peanuts off due to an allergic person on board, some of the comments are so blue I wouldn’t be able to post them on here, so this has got me thinking, why are people so obsessed with still having the little packet of peanuts on board airlines?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been conducting my own survey, I’ve been asking friends, family and neighbours would they mind if Peanuts were taken off airlines or do they look forward to them?
The answers I got back have been amazing, now most of you would say that friends and family would be supportive of me because we have these allergies, but that wasn’t the case. I have to say, most did say they didn’t understand why airlines still serve Peanuts and would be more than happy for them to be removed as long as they had a replacement such as Ritz biscuits and didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. What did surprise me was the amount of men who actually said they wanted to keep the Peanuts as they went hand in had with a beer! Other comments were “why change something that has been going for years” “looked forward to them” out of all the people I asked the majority were happy for Peanuts to be taken off of Airlines.
So why do airlines still serve Peanuts? I think we all know the answer, they are cheap to buy and the Peanut Industry would have a massive dent taken out of their profits, but is this fair, should money come before safety?
What I’ve been getting from different forums and articles about the Peanut controversy is peoples ignorance, most assume that you have to consume the actual Peanut’s, others say “we can’t accommodate for every allergy, if someone has a wheat allergy or egg allergy do we stop serving food items with that in” obviously anyone who fly’s with severe anaphylaxis allergies has to be extremely careful, but Peanuts are slightly different because as soon as the bag’s are open, and we’re not just talking one or two bags, its hundreds all open at once, Peanut dust is in the air and this is what causes the problem.
Personally, I can’t understand why people get so hot under the collar about not eating Peanut’s on a flight, it’s not as if they have had all inflight meals taken away from them, it’s just one bag of Peanuts that will be replaced with something just as fattening!
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