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60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

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349 points zdw | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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morshu9001 ◴[21 Oct 25 05:44 UTC] No.45652837[source]▶
There's a certain wealthy area near me where restaurants ask first if you have allergies, and ice cream shops ask if dairy is ok. My wife and I always joke, "we're in that part of town."
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garbagewoman ◴[21 Oct 25 05:57 UTC] No.45652902[source]▶
Who are you making the joke to?
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emil-lp ◴[21 Oct 25 06:56 UTC] No.45653169[source]▶
These jokes are always of the form "we are in a superior group who know things those outside the group don't".

In this case: "allergies and intolerances are made up stuff for weaklings, haha".

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1. gambiting ◴[21 Oct 25 08:03 UTC] No.45653545[source]▶
I don't think there's a joke here, or at least I'm not reading it this way. If anything it's not about "weaklings" but about being in an area where people are more likely to sue a business if they aren't warned beforehand - a street vendor elsewhere will not ask because their risk profile doesn't include being sued by someone who bought ice cream from an ice cream truck.

Like if you walk into a store and they offer you coffee or even a glass of prosecco, I would also say to my wife "oh we're in that kind of store now" because you know you're about to be ripped off in some way. Not that other stores are for weaklings.