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Originally Posted by RPMcMurphy 
back when I was a kid (about a few years ago!) people didn't have allergies.......they managed.
they wiped their own *** too....and kids actively traded, more than penny stocks, PB&J's at the lunch table......
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Maybe people once were also less aggressive and vulgar, too.
I'm not allergic to any food but i'm quite a bit older than you, for sure, and i knew a woman who would probably be in her 90s now, who was deathly allergic to cotton, of all things. She had to be very careful because in those days people were not aware of allergies or of anaphylactic shock and when she would ask if there was margarine in a dish the waiter would sometimes say "no, of course not, only butter" even when the dish did have margarine. Margarine often has cottonseed oil in it and she would have to get an ambulance in those cases.
So it's not true that people didn;t have allergies or that they managed. Probably fewer had allergies than today (more people were breastfed once, which probably prevents many allergies, and we're exposed to loads of crap in the environment and in our "food" that probably induces some allergies and they weren't in the past) and certainly there weren't as many people
wanting to have allergies. But those that do and those that did frequently risk and risked their lives because of the glibness of some cooks and waiters and even "friends".