Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
I chime with CIHY in wondering if the crew had been bullied to some extent by the passenger or more likely a partner or parent. I have never heard of anything so ridiculous as not serving the meals and would have asked the Lead to show me where in their manuals or briefing this was the case.
I too am getting rather tired of this Nut Control. Most people - as exemplified here - seem to be responsible and whilst I know that that an allergic attack can be deadly, I am uncertain quite how people can be stopped from eating them. I am intrigued how one never reads about this over at the AA Forum where the only nibbles are heated nuts and where I imagine there would be a nice little litigation for millions of dollars if someone had a reaction cause by the nuts served in First Class. Quite honestly BA should stop serving any meals or snacks containing nuts to avoid problems to passengers. It's not fair on them nor on the non-allergic majority/
What intrigues me is why there is this plethora of allergies in society these days. One simply never heard about them 30 years ago. I don't expect anyone to know, I'm really sharing my musings.
Personally I have developed allergies over the past 20 years that I didn't have in the past. I was told that with the nut allergy I shouldn't eat peanuts, but I love them so I kept eating them. Until the day I broke out in hives and my tongue swelled. No more peanuts for me. Same thing with shellfish. I've been allergic to scallops since I was a toddler. Ten years ago I had an anaphylactic reaction to clams. And five years ago I reacted to lobster. No more shellfish or squid for me. After a lot of hit and miss to determine what was causing hives, I finally figured out I was reactive to coconut. And then I reacted to beets. Not once, but three times before I figured out the common ingredient.
I was in F on an AA flight and the FA came to serve me the nuts, which I said, "No thanks" to. She looked at me with panic and said, "Are you allergic?" I told her yes, and then stopped her as she was trying to scoop up all of the nuts she had served and convinced her I'm fine with others eating them. I've never seen a more relieved look on an FA's face. That said, I don't understand why they don't serve something far less reactive as a snack. Chex Mix or something along those lines.
Allergies are on the rise, and they aren't sure why. But so are helicopter moms and special snowflake kids. It's a brutal combination in any type of service industry.