Could people please not eat peanuts on this plane?

[estebanrey]

So I've had no sleep or food and get to Gatwick at 2 in the morning, nothing is open but eventually get through to departures and manage to grab a big bag of dry roasted peanuts from the shop there and board the plane.

I open the packet and not two mouthfuls in a message comes over the tannoy........

"Hello all, I've just been informed that one of the passengers on today's flight has a severe nut allergy and therefore we won't be selling any nuts from on in-flight shop and would kindly ask anyone who has brought nuts with them to pack them away and refrain from eating them during a flight"

...so I did, but I was really annoyed as it was the first thing I'd eaten all night.

But was I selfish for getting annoyed or was the passenger, for letting their medical condition affect the flight for everyone else (OK so not everyone was going to buy or eat nuts but you get the point).

And how bad can an allergy be that even the smell of nuts can cause a flare up? My friend has a nut allergy and his girlfriend eats them all the time next to him.

 

[pepsilol]

And how bad can an allergy be that even the smell of nuts can cause a flare up? My friend has a nut allergy and his girlfriend eats them all the time next to him.

So bad that a whiff can require an epinephrine shot in the thigh. So mild your gf can eat them next to you.

 

[The Halk]

I'd complain, loudly, to them for being ****ing ridiculous.

Fair enough if it's on the same row or behind or in front. If someone is so allergic they can't be on the same plane as someone eating peanuts they shouldn't be on a plane.

 

[estebanrey]

Fair enough if it's on the same row or behind or in front. If someone is so allergic they can't be on the same plane as someone eating peanuts they shouldn't be on a plane.

Pretty much exactly what I said to my mate, hoping secretly they were near so they could hear me.

 

[Kamerad]

I would have told them that peanuts arent a nut and to man up

 

[SpaghettiOs]

I have a friend who can get an allergic reaction from touching the same objects as someone else who has been eating peanuts. Its probably in case they have to use any public on flight facilities (e.g. toilets) which could get contaminated, rather than peanut 'dust' in the air.

Also, I'd chalk it up to bad luck that what you brought on board was peanuts and nothing else. It's not exactly this guys 'fault' that what you bought, you can't eat.

 

[AHarvey]

I'd of carried on eating them and claimed I had an allergy not not eating peanuts.

 

[The Halk]

I have a friend who can get an allergic reaction from touching the same objects as someone else who has been eating peanuts. Its probably in case they have to use any public on flight facilities (e.g. toilets) which could get contaminated, rather than peanut 'dust' in the air.

Also, I'd chalk it up to bad luck that what you brought on board was peanuts and nothing else. It's not exactly this guys 'fault' that what you bought, you can't eat.

They'd be taking their life in their hands getting on a plane then.

 

[estebanrey]

Also, I'd chalk it up to bad luck that what you brought on board was peanuts and nothing else. It's not exactly this guys 'fault' that what you bought, you can't eat.

Why can't the other person chalk it up as bad luck that he got on a plane where other people are eating peanuts?

It wasn't my 'fault' they have an allergy so severe that even cross contamination would set him or her off. Seriously if I had something like that I wouldn't want to force my medical condition on others, and if that meant I couldn't use planes I wouldn't.

Surely it would be easier (if you're theory about air born particles not being the cause is true) if they just refrained from using the toilets during the flight (it wasn't a long flight, I didn't use the toilets for example).

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I would of told them that peanuts arent a nut and to man up

I'd of carried on eating them and claimed I had an allergy not not eating peanuts.

Come on lads at least make an effort

 

[bloodiedathame]

I'd of carried on eating them and claimed I had an allergy not not eating peanuts.

It's my religion actually.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

The nut allergy passenger should have specified any special needs when they ordered their plane ticket. The airliner would then have known about it, accommodated it, and should have announced it on the intercom in the departure lounge for that flight. But no they didn't. So the OP bought the peanuts from the departure lounge unawares, then to be declined them on the plane, seems rather unfair to me.

 

[King Damager]

Claim you had something that'd require you to raise your salt levels?

kd

 

[AHarvey]

Come on lads at least make an effort

I've been awake for nearly 35 hours now, please forgive me a couple of grammar mistakes on mighty one!

I thought better of you Dimple than doing the usual grammar Nazi routine those people with nothing in their lives like to do in order to give it meaning

 

[Nexus]

I think people are being a bit unfair here, given how serious a peanut allergy is and how easy it is to trigger. A pressurised cabin with recycled air on a plane is not your normal environment so the chances of an allergy being triggered are greater than usual.

At the end of the day, if somebody did have an attack, even if they had an epi-pen, I bet they would still make a landing or return to the departure airport. So if you had been asked to stop eating peanuts and carried on, you aren't doing yourself any favours if somebody did have a reaction.

You may have also noticed (or not) that planes don't serve nuts or nut based meals anymore.

 

[wnb]

So I've had no sleep or food and get to Gatwick at 2 in the morning, nothing is open but eventually get through to departures and manage to grab a big bag of dry roasted peanuts from the shop there and board the plane.

I open the packet and not two mouthfuls in a message comes over the tannoy........

"Hello all, I've just been informed that one of the passengers on today's flight has a severe nut allergy and therefore we won't be selling any nuts from on in-flight shop and would kindly ask anyone who has brought nuts with them to pack them away and refrain from eating them during a flight"

...so I did, but I was really annoyed as it was the first thing I'd eaten all night.

But was I selfish for getting annoyed or was the passenger, for letting their medical condition affect the flight for everyone else (OK so not everyone was going to buy or eat nuts but you get the point).

And how bad can an allergy be that even the smell of nuts can cause a flare up? My friend has a nut allergy and his girlfriend eats them all the time next to him.

That Joke was on live at the Apollo on one of the sky channels tonight. It is one of Micheal MacItyrs Jokes

 

[estebanrey]

Claim you had something that'd require you to raise your salt levels?

kd

Or a zinc deficiency.

 

[AHarvey]

That Joke was on live at the Apollo one one of the sky channels tonight.

Funny you say that because I thought I had heard it somewhere before while I was reading it :S

 

[estebanrey]

That Joke was on live at the Apollo on one of the sky channels tonight.

What joke? Purely coincidental if a comedian did a stand up about it, can you remember who it was?

 

[One]

You should have stood up and started shaking your nuts over everyone.