Warning! This Blog Post Contains Milk And Dairy Ingredients And Was Made On Equipment That Processes Peanuts.

I'm sure you're all aware of the ongoing trend to put warnings on everything. It's driven by ligitation, and we all know THAT.

But now it's getting really ridiculous.

Look at a pack of - for example - sour cream and onion potato chips. Sour cream is in those, right? Sour cream is made from milk, right? So why does this product require:

Warning: Contains milk ingredients.

Peanut butter:

This product contains peanuts.

This is why I'm buying it. If you're allergic to peanuts, it's reasonable to expect a warning from a soft drink. Go look and see how many sodas say:

Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine.

That's perfectly legitimate, as nobody would reasonably expect peanuts in a Pepsi. But, come on, if you're allergic to peanuts and you're buying peanut butter, Here's your Darwin Award, move along, citizen.

Likewise with any other allergy. There are some warnings that are actually useful - the "equipment used to process peanuts" one, in particular - but if you have a milk allergy, just don't fucking GO to the dairy section, hmmm?

I guess what I'm getting at is that if we need this much handholding, we are a nation of lost, helpless children in plastic bubbles, and something bad should happen to us.