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On my package of Butter Rum Pecans from Woody's Smokehouse:

Allergen statement: packaged in a facility that processes peanuts and tree nuts.

Labelled by the Department of Redundancy Department

Mmm, tree nuts.

Sad, I know, but it's a notice intended to protect them and their customers. All six of my nephews and nieces on the Czarina's side have horrible food allergies: all are allergic to peanuts, one to all legumes of any sort, and one to kiwifruit. At the rate things are going, I'm expecting to see kids with allergies to oxygen.

Yeah - I've got a friend deathly allergic to nuts of all kinds. It's just the necessity to include the nut warning on a package of nuts that seems a bit off. :)

(I know, I know, it's boilerplate, but still...)

Given the ever-increasingly litigious nature of our society, can you blame them? I mean, McDonald's was sued because their coffee was hot.

http://www.ggreen.com/news/mcdonalds-case/

I was all, 'what's so weird about that?' and then I realized it was a package of pecans.

Although, to be fair, some people are allergic to peanuts and not pecans.

Yeah. I know *why* they put it on there, but it still seems a bit odd. XD

The best part was how boggled I was because I kept thinking they were butter run candies. Reading skills: mine are suspect.

Hmm. Poor example. Say rather that McDonald's was sued by people because they became obese for eating the food.

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