Ruminations on Food Allergies

[Briar Lee]

My wife is not only much prettier than I am, she genuinely cares a lot more about the precious children of our nation, which she claims are our most important national resource and only hope for the future.

I read an article where some girlie type European butter was being recalled for not having a statement it contained milk.

https://fox2now.com/news/national/fda-upgrades-butter-recall-alert-to-a-higher-level/#:~:text=More%20than%2064%2C000%20lbs.,one%20in%20the%20Dominican%20Republic.

I showed that to my wife, and said the do gooders at the dad blasted gubbermint are out of control.

Who not old enough to climb out of their crib doesn’t already know butter is whipped cream, which is made from milk?

And she asked me, how old were you when your mother gave you a product that had cow’s milk in it?

I said really quick after I was born, no self respecting dairy farmer’s wife breast fed babies in 1958, we all had formula. The mothers immediately started loosing their baby fat so they could get back in their clothes, and get back to teaching school.

And she asked when did your mother first feed you peanut butter?

I said she didn’t. My good old grandmother Mammy would let me eat anything in her kitchen when I was a toddler and she no doubt fed me peanut butter.

And she said you have never been allergic to any kind of milk or milk product or peanuts or tree nuts, have you? But what happened to you the first time you had shellfish?

I said I was ten and we all went to play pitch at Chis and Evelyn’s house and Eveyln served us shrimp and they didn’t get sick but we all nearly died, including me.

And a light bulb went off in my head.

Until frozen shrimp in the grocery stores in Humansville no hillbilly had ever, eaten any shellfish.

My wife smiled and said what if your mother had been some back to nature home schooled vegetarian who thought European butter grew on the butter tree, and gave you milk?

I hung my head and said, I’d likely get as sick as the first time I tried shrimp.

Shrimp is my only known allergy.

What are yours?

 

[Servant King]

My wife is not only much prettier than I am

Nonsense. You're easily the most attractive of any of us, including all spouses/girlfriends.

Don't be so modest!

 

[Briar Lee]

The people who select the news articles all must have attended a traditional Christian Church while growing up——

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In 1982, in Lawrenceville, Ga., Angela Cavallo lifted a 1964 Chevrolet Impala from her son, Tony, after it fell off the jacks that had held it up while he worked underneath the car. Mrs. Cavallo lifted the car high enough and long enough for two neighbors to replace the jacks and pull Tony from beneath the car.

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The female of our species will protect her young until death, by the design of an unseen maker.

 

[The Benedictine]

I have not had the displeasure of being allergic to anything except ragweed and mold in the fall.

 

[Briar Lee]

I have not had the displeasure of being allergic to anything except ragweed and mold in the fall.

And I’m not and likely because all the people allergic to ragweed and mold around Bug Tussle would have perished before the Civil War, or Great Rebellion, as we called it.

I didn’t have air conditioning until I was eighteen and went off to college.


The more civilized we get the more allergic we get to nature, is my theory.

 

[Kobold]

I’m just allergic to ragweed and dust. Thankfully no food allergies. I remember my son had a bad reaction to spinach when he was a baby but since then is fine with spinach.

 

[huntertrw]

As I have written previously, I sold pharmaceuticals for a number of years. One of the Allergist/Immunologists upon whom I called once told me that, in his experience, some of his patients had allergies from infanthood and literally grew out of the. Others never had any allergies until they became adults, and some of those FAR into adulthood.

"Why?" I asked.

He just smiled, shook his head, and said, " I'd like to be able to tell you, but I can't. We simply don't know why."

My only known allergy is to Serbian women (well, to a particular Serbian woman), something that I developed in college...

 

[huntertrw]

I read an article where some girlie type European butter was being recalled for not having a statement it contained milk.

As the late Jimmy Buffett once sang, in part, "There's no dumbass vaccine."

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

There's a word, it starts with a V, that we really ain't supposed to talk about.

Some people say taking those might be the cause of the increase in allergic children, and people in general.

 

[Sig]

I have no allergies.
My wife and family say that im a robot. Im not sure I've ever had the flu, and I've only had a few mild colds.
I was the guy who was "never sick a day in my life"......until March of 2009.
That's when I found out I was allergic to lead. I caught a 150 grain chunk under my plate carrier.
Haven't been the same sinse.
Its amazing that something so small can cause so much prolonged damage.

 

[OzPiper]

Grew up eating everything and most anything. Absolutely NO food allergies.
Last few years I've become lactose intolerant (which is NOT the same as an allergy).
Gives me the sh--ts (literally)

 

[Briar Lee]

There's a word, it starts with a V, that we really ain't supposed to talk about.

Some people say taking those might be the cause of the increase in allergic children, and people in general.

Part of allergies might be genetic.

Joshua Cahow was my grandmother Ma Agee’s grandfather and his adventures the source for many of her characters in her series Ma and Pa that ran for over fifty years in the Hermitage Index.

Joshua Cahow (1797-1904) - Find a Grave Memorial

Father: Basil Cahow Obituary: Marshall (MI) Daily Chronicle Monday, March 21, 1904 Joshua Cahow died at the county house Saturday at the age of 107 years. Marshall (MI) Expounder Friday, March 25, 1904 Joshua Cahow died at the county house Saturday at the age of 107 years. Married: Joshua...

www.findagrave.com

It is unclear how many wives he had.

He abandoned my great great grandmother by running off with their 12 year old boy when he was 68 to join the Union Cavalry, both of them.

He saw action in the War of 1812, the Mexican War and Civil War and my grandmother suspected his fourth (?) wife poisoned him when he was 107 to get his pensions.

Before modern medicine you had to be tough or dead.

Today, and actually since about Workd War Two, people do not die of the host of diseases now eradicated in all civilized nations.

Did polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera, syphilis, diabetes, or even measles kill off those prone to allergies before they reproduced?

 

[TN Jed]

My wife is not only much prettier than I am, she genuinely cares a lot more about the precious children of our nation, which she claims are our most important national resource and only hope for the future.

I read an article where some girlie type European butter was being recalled for not having a statement it contained milk.

https://fox2now.com/news/national/fda-upgrades-butter-recall-alert-to-a-higher-level/#:~:text=More%20than%2064%2C000%20lbs.,one%20in%20the%20Dominican%20Republic.

I showed that to my wife, and said the do gooders at the dad blasted gubbermint are out of control.

Who not old enough to climb out of their crib doesn’t already know butter is whipped cream, which is made from milk?

And she asked me, how old were you when your mother gave you a product that had cow’s milk in it?

I said really quick after I was born, no self respecting dairy farmer’s wife breast fed babies in 1958, we all had formula. The mothers immediately started loosing their baby fat so they could get back in their clothes, and get back to teaching school.

And she asked when did your mother first feed you peanut butter?

I said she didn’t. My good old grandmother Mammy would let me eat anything in her kitchen when I was a toddler and she no doubt fed me peanut butter.

And she said you have never been allergic to any kind of milk or milk product or peanuts or tree nuts, have you? But what happened to you the first time you had shellfish?

I said I was ten and we all went to play pitch at Chis and Evelyn’s house and Eveyln served us shrimp and they didn’t get sick but we all nearly died, including me.

And a light bulb went off in my head.

Until frozen shrimp in the grocery stores in Humansville no hillbilly had ever, eaten any shellfish.

My wife smiled and said what if your mother had been some back to nature home schooled vegetarian who thought European butter grew on the butter tree, and gave you milk?

I hung my head and said, I’d likely get as sick as the first time I tried shrimp.

Shrimp is my only known allergy.

What are yours?

Good thing you're retired. A smart opposing attorney would hire your wife to litigate against you. I had seasonal allergies as a kid but have mostly grown out them as an adult. I theorize it was the Marlboros at age 14 that kicked the allergies to the curb.
Edit: My wife has celiacs that was an adult onset. Probably the gmo wheat and extreme use of glyphosate. Since gluten is a rare treat for me I have developed a bit of sensitivity to it.

 

[Briar Lee]

Good thing you're retired. A smart opposing attorney would hire your wife to litigate against you. I had seasonal allergies as a kid but have mostly grown out them as an adult. I theorize it was the Marlboros at age 14 that kicked the allergies to the curb.
Edit: My wife has celiacs that was an adult onset. Probably the gmo wheat and extreme use of glyphosate. Since gluten is a rare treat for me I have developed a bit of sensitivity to it.

I’m older than fescue, Round Up and bush hogs that mow hundreds of acres a day.

Young people will never be able to imagine just how many more tics and chiggers and grasshoppers and poison oak and poison ivy and sumac the Ozark highlands had sixty years ago.

Raise your hand if you’ve had to take a bath in Clorox water and spread kerosene all over your delicate parts!.

I bid a hay hauling job when I was 17 at the princely sum of 28 cents a bale to haul a thousand bales of prairie hay to Black Jack in Cedar County.

I had heard of Black Jack on the scenic banks of the Sac River and wanted to see it.

My crew and me were all one solid oozing sore of bites from bugs I’d never heard of and couldn’t see half of them.

Mark me down as a huge fan of glyphosate.

 

[wyfbane]

My ex brother-in-law worked for the railroad. They had a car loaded with ddt in the yard spring a leak. Everyone freaked out and wanted to move it outof the yard. My BIL had an engine cart that fucker to every corner of the yard before it was moved out. This was in Louisiana. According to him, they didn't have a mosquito in the yard for two years after that event. lol.

 

[OzPiper]

My ex brother-in-law worked for the railroad. They had a car loaded with ddt in the yard spring a leak. According to him, they didn't have a mosquito in the yard for two years after that event. lol.

I have had tinnitus ever since I can remember
I had malaria when I was 3yo which was treated with quinine - the cause of the tinnitus

I still remember local council workers spraying DDT into the open drains around our home at regular intervals.
This was before the long lasting deleterious effects of DDT was known.

Malaria is the biggest cause of death worldwide.
Thank goodness for people like Melinda Gates and her generous donations towards the eradication of malaria

 

[telescopes]

Obviously allergies are an indication of an immune system under duress. What we have done to our water, food, soil, and air is unforgivable. We are surrounded by a cesspool of toxins and while sperm counts and rates of neurological conditions skyrocket, the best anyone seems to do about it is politicize it - which in essence is the same as do nothing about it. The bread we eat doesn't even meet the definition of bread in many places in the world today.

 

[abecox]

 

[irishearl]

I’m older than fescue, Round Up and bush hogs that mow hundreds of acres a day.

Young people will never be able to imagine just how many more tics and chiggers and grasshoppers and poison oak and poison ivy and sumac the Ozark highlands had sixty years ago.

Raise your hand if you’ve had to take a bath in Clorox water and spread kerosene all over your delicate parts!.

I bid a hay hauling job when I was 17 at the princely sum of 28 cents a bale to haul a thousand bales of prairie hay to Black Jack in Cedar County.

I had heard of Black Jack on the scenic banks of the Sac River and wanted to see it.

My crew and me were all one solid oozing sore of bites from bugs I’d never heard of and couldn’t see half of them.

Mark me down as a huge fan of glyphosate.

Lived in Missouri for 4 years and never saw a mosquito. Figured it was due to the purple martins and bats.

 

[Briar Lee]

Lived in Missouri for 4 years and never saw a mosquito. Figured it was due to the purple martins and bats.

Mosquitos like the swamps and ponds, and most of the Ozarks is well drained.

Except Black Jack.

My wife sometimes buys Irish butter, made from grass fed cows.

I wonder if Irish boys still toss eighty pound bales into Irish barns for them. Probably not.

The wealthiest man in Humansville (who was a mortal man, not a God like Dr Robinson) bought his favorite nephew a Korean War surplus hay truck in 1975.

And my mother called me from the Shady Nook Cafe and said I’m down here with Lionel and he says his nephew is allergic to hay and I said you weren’t allergic to anything at all except shrimp.

I paid the allergic nephew a penny a bale rental and went straight to the pool haul and hired a crew.

And that fall Lionel called me and said his nephew was allergic to cow shit, and could I take over the contract to clean the Cattleman Auction and also be a back alley worker and pen cows.

Back then Lionel would sometimes allow a stock contractor for a rodeo to auction off his bucked out bulls as a cutter in the ring.

It was always a great show. Frog Hughes (legendary ring man who could jump higher than any frog) would be in the ring, and the auctioneer would leave the mic open to the back alleys and say

Froggy, this next bull has been broke to ride.

(And me and John would be in the back alleys saying excuse me sir there’s going to be a mean rodeo bull coming though and would you please climb those steps to the promenade to watch.)


John always said he was allergic to rodeo bulls. They aggravated the yellow streak up the middle of his back.

The auctioneer had a beautiful wife and her daughter and her would look down at me, while Froggy poked the bull and he’d kick the ring rails and the crowd laughed and Amour Meat Packing always won the sale.

9 out of 10 wet straight to the pen like an old milk cow.

The ten percent , didn’t get me.


Afterwards the auctioneer’s wife would ask me and John if we wanted a cheeseburger and a Pepsi and she’d send out a little waitress from the cafe in high heels and a short skirt who never had any allergies to cow shit either.

A good share of allergies is, being able to afford them, you know?