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No more Nutella! :/

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:02:43 AM

The Danish meat giant "Danish Crown" has now banned Nutella. That means that the staff can't bring Nutella sandwiches for breakfast, or nut paté sandwiches for all that matters. They can't even add nuts to their salads if they want to. Similarly, the canteen has stopped selling chocolate with nuts.

The banning of Nutella and nuts in general is not because the company cares about the employees' health. No, it's all about the customers.

The big British supermarket chain Tesco, which each year buys tons of meat from the Danish Crown, has required that the nuts must go.

Tesco fears that a nut in one way or another ends up in the meat, and that the "nut contaminated" meat unfortunately get sold to a British person with allergies - with lawsuits to follow.

The employees have accepted the ban.

Thank god I don't work there!!

Pay back to the spammers!Maybe it's Maybelline - Maybe it's Photoshop!

Comments

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:21:25 AM

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Martin K™Aqualion # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:51:38 AM

Bizarre... Especially when you think about the other stuff in Nutella that is far more dangerous to your health than nuts. 85 percent of the content of a Nutella jar is sugar and fat, and we all know how very dagerous those are... Erm...

It only contains about 13 percent hazel-nuts. Besides, the risk of motoroil and microscopic metal flakes from production machinery conterminating the meat is far greater, and they would not consider replacing their machines with plastic ones, would they?

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:57:06 AM

The answer must be to not employ people with allergies

They should be given govt. assistance and not need to work at all.

I am allergic to chocolate and penicillin, would be happy to receive a huge, long term govt. grant to investigate and finally produce a report on how a normal person can avoid these two substances

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:18:34 PM

Addendum :

This is another example of how the big supermarket chains have power over us, and what we buy. And now even what we eat at work. I hesitate to say that compared to what the consumer pays, the supermarkets pay peanuts (ho ho ho) to the manufacturers for <whatever product you want to buy>. But it's true. You can pretty much guarantee that *all* supermarkets mark their produce and goods up by a huge percentage (400% isn't unrealistic) before presenting them for sale to us.

Back in NZ I worked for a co. that made bread, bread products, pies and suchlike. They sold each standard loaf to the food chain for around a dollar (a profit of 1 or 2 cents per loaf) and the supermarkets, having put in no effort (all they do is provide shelf space, the suppliers do *all* the rest - even stack the shelves), would be charging between 4 and 5 dollars per loaf. AND claiming they were fighting to give the consumer the best value for money. :irked at such blatant bollocks:

All the sales people I knew had 'supermarket owner\operator' as their goal, knowing that within 2 or 3 years, having paid off the initial outlay, they'd be on their way to being a millionaire. True story.

Martin K™Aqualion # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:36:58 PM

Benefits of Capitalism and Democracy combined. This particular combined model has several flaws. So has Socialism. Even God's plan has its flaws.

Mad Scientistqlue # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:04:32 PM

I like Nuttela but it (literally) makes me sick.

Gavin Tripp-Sheedygarlingmatthews # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:34:50 PM

I get this ban. My brother has a friend whose throat closes up if some-one opens a bag of peanuts in the same room. And it's becoming more and more common.

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:10:04 PM

I wonder why people are becoming increasingly sensitized to these allergens. My ex is allergic to all dairy products, and gluten (and I mean *really*, sick makingly allergic, not just fashionably allergic). And my daughter inherited the dairy allergy.

I became allergic to chocolate and some fish when a doctor mistook my penicillin allergy for some bacterial sickness and kept dosing me with it, increasing the dose as I got sicker, until I was nearly dead. That fucked my system up entirely and I think I'm lucky to have got away with it the way I did, frankly.

But most people just seem to become allergic to *something*, with no obvious reason. I wonder what the mechanism is that makes this happen.

Gavin Tripp-Sheedygarlingmatthews # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:58:19 PM

In the case of gluten intolerance, which has exploded, it's because they add a lot more gluten to bread than they used to, for cheap bulking purposes. I think that we simply eat crap food. I'd bet the farm that allergies are not exploding in cultures with less processed foods.

Nasty.

Mad Scientistqlue # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:36:01 PM

Children who are breastfed as infants are far less likely to develop allergies.

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And I agree that the tendency to replace all the goodness in our food with industrial waste is probably not helping.

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:09:36 PM

Originally posted by Gavin:

I think that we simply eat crap food.

Possibly, but maybe not the whole story. My daughter *never* ate crap food when she was developing - always good, plain and fresh - meat, fish, fruit and vegetables...no McDonald's or KFC etc., a few Chinese takeaways, but otherwise nada as far as crap food goes.
It's possible that even unprocessed food is excessively contaminated with insecticides, fungicides and other -icides, and long term, these are fucking our systems up too.

I agree. Nasty.

Dark FurieFurie # Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:25:42 PM

There's a baby in Kim's family that is allergic to pretty much everything -gluten, wheat, nuts, the lot. The child's skin tends to flake off if they're exposed to anything like that. To be fair the mother was a barely developed mid-to-late teen when she gave birth so didn't really have much of anything to offer the child genetically as her own body hadn't yet formed fully.

I have a similar thing with garlic whereby it burns and tries to leave me as a dried up and blackened husk. I can understand the ban from the supermarket as a result, especially as they'd be the ones shelling out for lawsuits brought against them. Still, the fact that the factory agreed and got the workers on board is nothing short of remarkable.

FlaRin # Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:20:15 AM

Originally posted by Mik:

Still, the fact that the factory agreed and got the workers on board is nothing short of remarkable

They must be moving a lot of product through Tesco, perhaps perceiving a trend in the marketplace, and making sure they're seen as being able to co-operate with the big food chains

I imagine the employees may not have been given much say in it, but that all depends upon how the case is presented. To keep (my job and) annual productivity bonus, I'd be happy to get on board with that kind of thing

Spaggyj # Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:15:42 PM

That's stupid.

FlaRin # Friday, January 20, 2012 12:19:08 PM

So in fact, it should be called Notella, from now on, right?

KittyliciousZaphira # Friday, January 20, 2012 8:54:14 PM

No way!

*note to self* Never apply for a job at Danish Crown.

at Ferrero Rocher, however...

Martin K™Aqualion # Friday, January 20, 2012 9:46:42 PM

Perhaps Ferrero Rocher has a policy on bacon in their canteen. In case customers are vegan.

FlaRin # Friday, January 20, 2012 11:15:45 PM

A policy on Bacon...?
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..it had better be the right policy!

KittyliciousZaphira # Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:25:18 PM

I'll chose Nutella over bacon any time, so that'd be ok for me.

Scary pic, btw!

H82typ # Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:04:26 PM

The bakery I worked at had a no nut policy, but only in the vending machines. They made a raisin/walnut loaf that was to die for.

Bad WolfCois # Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:51:58 AM

now I understand why they put stupid warning labels on products!

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:12:20 PM

And there's no warnings about this kind of thing :
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Allergy Warning : May contain traces of rodents. What???

Bad WolfCois # Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:24:09 PM

I remember that one!

H82typ # Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:45:03 PM

Exactly how many ppm is that?

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:00:45 PM

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Warning! May contain Nuts!

KittyliciousZaphira # Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:48:48 PM

If you kiss a thing like that, you might even be nuts!

Martin K™Aqualion # Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:55:35 AM

I hear squirrels make a nice stew.

FlaRin # Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:00:58 AM

Squirrel recipe page.

Wrapped in bacon sounds OK

To be avoided if you *are* allergic to nuts, I imagine...

r♡serose-marie # Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:51:58 AM

Originally posted by Furie:

There's a baby in Kim's family that is allergic to pretty much everything -gluten, wheat, nuts, the lot. The child's skin tends to flake off if they're exposed to anything like that. To be fair the mother was a barely developed mid-to-late teen when she gave birth so didn't really have much of anything to offer the child genetically as her own body hadn't yet formed fully.

There's a couple in mine too, but the mother has always been healthy, and was in her late 20s when giving birth.
One of them is deadly allergic, so if I've had milk in my coffee in the morning, I have to brush my teeth again before seeing him later in the afternoon

Mad Scientistqlue # Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:02:54 PM

There are genetic factors as well as development factors that can both lead to similar allergies. Breast feeding goes a long way to prevent the development factors from taking effect. But there is currently no known solution to genetic factors.
However, since genetic issues are usually the result of recessive genes, choosing a partner that is less closely related to you can go a long way to prevent that from ever becoming an issue.

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The problem is that people have a tendency to homogenize the gene pool by exclusively marrying someone of the same 'race'. (usually same clan)
This is effectively the same as marrying your first cousin, especially if you live in a region that has known relative isolation from a global perspective.

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Genetic weaknesses flourish under there cultural conditions.