Rich M
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2016
The last time I flew Southwest was last month, and we got peanuts on the way down to WDW but pretzels on the way home. Personally, I prefer pretzels, and since they are less likely to KILL any of my fellow passengers, I'm totally cool with the common sense change. We're sealed up in a tube with 200 other people, 30,000 feet in the air for a few hours. Certainly we can go without eating peanuts during that time?
And an interesting note: On the way down, when I reached into the pocket to pull out a magazine to look at, there were two empty peanut wrappers that were torn wide open and had been stuffed down into the pocket and gotten smashed in between the magazine pages. I remember saying "eww" because the inside of the wrappers was still kind of greasy with residue, which I unfortunately experienced because I felt the wrappers a split second before I saw them and realized what I was touching. I don't have peanut allergies, but if I did...boy. That could have been quite an issue.
There is no good reason TO serve peanuts as the snack on airplanes, IMO.
I think this can be agreed on put if airports sell peanuts and trail mix and things then it doesn't fix that problem. I could easily bring some with me from home and nothing is stopping me. Thanks to this thread and hearing peoples first hand accounts of people with the allergy I will refrain from doing so but not everyone will.