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Can I help you
It’s getting more common, I have made this announcement twice in the last 6 weeks.
Yes, I have had something like one such announcement a year for the first 2 decades of my flying life, now it's running at once a month (all short haul thankfully) so far.
It's good to hear whether it is nuts or peanuts that are being restricted since they are two different things, peanuts being legumes/vegetables. Usually the wording says something like "we have a customer on board with a severe peanut / nut allergy, so we would ask passengers to refrain for eating any peanut / nut products during this flight. We will not the selling nut items from our M&S On Board service".
I was on a LHR-NCL service affected, and there were a large number of executives from Japan heading presumably to the Nissan factory in Sunderland. I'm not entirely sure they understood the message.