Health and safety with food

As you will learn to realise, I hate health and safety. That's why there's a label just for it. Privelidged or what?

This episode will focus on the stupid little labels they contaminate our food with.

After all, who would have guessed that someone allergic to celery could have an allergic reaction if they ate a packet of celery? Huh?

No. Seriously.

On an online food ordering website, one of the supermarkets, I was in the process of reading the product description, as one does, and I came accross this: [bear in mind that this is a paket of celery] "WARNING! Do not consume if you are allergic to celery."

I'm sorry, but if someone was THAT stupid, I think they would probably have already died by now.

Allergic to nuts? Don't eat.

It often occurrs to me how grateful I ought to be that I am not allergic to any food type. I looked on the back of a seemingly harmless, if moreish, tub of crab paste, and encountered this gibberish:

"Recipe: No nuts. Factory: No nuts. Ingredients: Cannot guarentee nut free."

I ask you. How on earth do you srvive if you have a serious nut allergy? As far as I can see, the only way the minced crab I was eating somehow contained a nut is if it ate one while scrabling around on the sea floor.

Another example of health and safety [and being afraid of getting sued] gone mad.