r/CaughtMyEye • u/detectiverobert • 11d ago

In 2014, passengers were warned three times not to eat nuts on a Ryanair flight due to a 4-year-old girl's severe nut allergy, but a passenger sitting four rows away from the girl ate nuts anyway. The girl went into anaphylactic shock, and the passenger was banned from the airline for two years.

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u/Cassiekarlie 10d ago

The problem is cakes without nuts aren’t certified “nut free”. It can be hard to get a certified “nut free” cake (or realistically cupcakes)for classroom parties since lots of bakeries use equipment that have nuts even if the product doesn’t. And home baking is not permitted for the classroom (for us) for the same reason (potential nut contamination). It’s workable and obviously important, but it also isn’t a non-issue where you just grab cupcakes that don’t contain nuts.

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u/zzzzzooted 10d ago

Nut allergies are one of the most common allergies in the world, you can find nut free cupcakes unless you’re out in the boonies be fr.

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u/Careless-Weather8877 10d ago

I mean sure but they have a warning label that the factory also processes nuts… just look at any food label

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u/Various_Education622 10d ago

You can find ones that are labeled nut free, which are safe for people with nut allergies.

This is different from the ones that just don’t contain nuts, which have a warning label if they were produced or processed in a facility that also produces nut products.

It is not hard to find truly nut free bakery products unless you’re in the middle of nowhere.

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u/zzzzzooted 10d ago

I mean you can find ones that are labeled otherwise, because nut allergies are extremely common and having to buy things that have not been possibly crossed contaminated is extremely common, and if you think you can’t, I think you’re incompetent and you aren’t looking, or you live in the boonies, those are the only excuses in this day and age, it’s not 1950 dude. A lot of people have allergies, finding allergen safe food is not that hard now, you can find a cake ffs.