This is a useful piece of information if what you’re about to consume could possibly contain nuts. Perhaps you’re about to tuck into a nice fuitcake? Or maybe a packet of hobnob-esque biscuits. If you like these things and are allergic to nuts then being told in no uncertain terms that the product doesn’t contain the source of your misery, would make you happy. And you’d probably chomp away on the product with gay abandon.

By the same token, a small notice on a product saying “May Contain Nuts”, in products where you wouldn’t expect to find them, could be a life-saving addition to a Pork Pies packaging.

But what about when the product is one where you wouldn’t normally expect to find any nuts, and you still find a notice telling you it doesn’t contain any nuts?

I understand there are a lot of people who are allergic to them, and that we should err on the side of caution with peoples health, but at what point do you need to start adding this warning to a bag of carrots?

That’s not a typo. I actually wrote ‘a bag of carrots’. As in those orange little vegetables that you dig up from the ground. The ones that don’t contain any nuts. (more…)

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