Question For Older Abers - Peanuts

[barry1010]

I read a comment from on older person blaming vaccines for peanut allergies. No child was allergic to peanuts when she was at school.

I'm trying to remember if peanuts were popular snacks in the 40s and 50s, and if peanut butter was a thing.

I can remember peanuts sold in their shells (pods?) but I didn't eat them. I didn't have peanut butter either. 

Was it a common ingredient in food?

 

[Hopkirk]

Cashews, almonds and pistachios - technically not nuts.

[bhg481]

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[bhg481]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[New Judge]

"Peanut butter is an American abomination."

Absolutely agree. Devil's food. Ghastly stuff. Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near humans.

"I don't think I ever heard of nut allergies until fairly recently."

We certainly didn’t have them when I was a lad. We couldn’t afford it!   🤣 

[bhg481]

A schoolfriend of my daughter had a nut allergy in the late 1970s; I'd never heard of it before then. I'd never even heard of Hay Fever until I moved to Wiltshire from Lancashire in the 1960s.

[pastafreak]

Peanut butter might be an abomination, and ghastly to several abers,its a matter of food preference. 

But properly made with no added sugars, is a healthy food...eaten in moderation.

The Incas were the first to grind nuts into a paste.

[Khandro]

pasta, as an Amercan we excuse you. 😉

When I was a kid, back in the Dark Ages, there were no sweets. But if we were lucky (as the 5 Yorkshire men would say) we got a piece of liquorice root to chew on. It was like a yellow twig which you chewed & beccame a sort of fibrous strand.

I think it has some medicinal value & so it could be obtained from the chemist's.

[Tilly2]

I loved liquorice root. I still love liquorice. 

[DDIL]

Good afternoon,

A quick look at google seems to imply that the "American abomination" was actually first made in its current format in Quebec and not America.

It was then enhanced futher by Kellog and made as a health food.

I don't understand the apparent rudeness towards a product because its American?

[rowanwitch]

They were vaccinating kids back then too... But there was a tendency to avoid giving small children  nuts and small sweets due to the risk of choking.  It may be later exposure to nuts( probably at around age 7ish)reduced the risk of developing allergies.   Peanut butter was pretty widespread though. I remember having it when quite young.

[davebro3]

Not suggesting that extreme allergic reactions don't exist but I think exposure to low levels of some allergens over time can avoid problem reactions.

I have dust mite allergy. I don't think it is available now but in the 80s I had a series of injections of the allergen of increasing strength over 6 months. It cured me completely for a couple of decades but the allergic reaction has gradually returned. I now try to control it with anti-histamines (not very successfully). 

[FoxLee2]

My idea of a heavenly sandwich - peanut butter with slices of banana. Wonderful!

[Khandro]

DDIL /I don't understand the apparent rudeness towards a product because its American?//

The 'rudeness' isn't because peanut butter is American it's because it is abhorrent. The Americans seem to need 'jelly' (jam) with it help it down.  

 

[DDIL]

Good Afternoon Khandro,

Given its popularity amongst the young and old it appears to be a product in demand, which can only mean that your use of words is your opinion and not fact.

[ImLostAgain]

I asked about this at a farmers market a little while ago and was told it was probably the insecticides they use nowadays.

Dunno how true that is.

[pastafreak]

Jelly is not the same as jam.

According to this Smithsonian article about the history of peanut butter, most USA children have eaten up to 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they leave high school. 

It was also promoted as a healthy meat substitute during rationing in WW1.

The article does not mention its origin in Quebec.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-peanut-butter-180976525/

 

[pastafreak]

DDIL...I expect peanut butter is in the same category as marmite 

I grew up with peanut butter and loved it. But some nuts triggered an itchy mouth, so I switched to seed butters a number of years ago. 

[brainiac]

How do people who have a nut or other allergy so severe that it will kill them know that they have that allergy and must avoid that food?  Surely their first exposure to the allergen (before they knew about it) would have killed them.

[davebro3]

Maybe they had limited exposure that produced a severe reaction but not fatal, with the presumption that it could be fatal as has ocurred to other sufferers. 

[maggiebee]

Remember you could buy peanut brittle which I loved but the dentist didn't.  Not sure if you can still get it.