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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

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You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?[/quote]

See point 3. We eat out when we travel, and at other times, and if we do we carry the epi-pen. This is my responsibility and one day it will be my DCs. It would be nice if people were perfect, but they aren't so I am prepared for accidental ingestion. I assume the risk when we eat out. What is the point of getting mad at some stranger whose primary concern isn't me and mine. [/quote]

His son had an EpiPen as well. I don't see the difference. [/quote]

The difference is that mistakes happen, and you can't just assume that no allergen means no allergen. Shellfish allergies tend to be one of the most severe and they are ones that you don't outgrow, and you can't become desensitized to, and they can crop up, develop at any time for anyone. Meaning one day you can eat shrimp and then the next you can have an anaphylactic reaction.

So you have to learn to live with it, and only an idiot would think the proper reaction to accidental ingestion is to beat someone up. Even my DC who is in elementary school wouldn't wander into a Robeks and order a peanut drink, and then say but wait, hold the peanuts.

Plus anyone with a severe food allergy has two epi-pens because the protocol is first shot, call an ambulance, second shot while waiting for the ambulance. So having to go to administer the shot and then go to the hospital via ambulance isn't exactly an unusual thing, it is protocol. They were just following protocol unless they didn't administer 2 pens, and then well that's on them now, isn't it? If they have the time and money to go to Robek's then they have the time and money to have at least two epi-pens.

If this kids allergy is that severe again you shouldn't be ordering a peanut butter smoothie in a Robek's, if no reaction up until this point they were just playing with a loaded gun. [/quote]

He ordered without peanut butter. Regardless, you can't control cross contamination in any restaurant. Visiting any food establishment is playing with a loaded gun if you have foo allergies. Even if it's your first, second, or third trip. Claiming that you have "special precautions" that prevent these accidents, like limiting what you order from the menu, is not actually controlling for any of the risk.[/quote]

Um yes that is the entire point. You can’t control food prepared for someone else, heck recalls happen every day in prepared and packaged food products so the proper course of action is to be prepared and accept that it is fairly probable that sooner or later you will accidentally ingest something and rage at the preparer is stupid.

This guy lost his job because he is a moron.  His kid had a bad reaction because he has a bad allergy. No point in blaming some kid in a fast food restaurant. They took a risk and this time it didn’t go thrived way. Assume risk accept consequences. [/quote]

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