the owner of the restaurant is no doubt a self absorbed jerk
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3604753/Penny-pinching-curry-house-boss-GUILTY-killing-allergic-customer-giving-takeaway-containing-peanuts-cheaper-almonds.html
I know this is europe and the laws there are different… but criminal charges?
Manslaughter by gross negligence. It seems appropriate to me. Apparently, a different customer also had an allergic reaction to food that was sold as peanut and nut-free just a week or two before. It was bound to happen when they were lying about the ingredients.
do not get me wrong i know a person with life threatening allergies and it has lead him to have a great deal of anxiety and angst! ( I understand 100%)–just concerned about the manslaughter charge.
What charges do you think would be more suitable?
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My H and 2 of our daughters have life threatening food allergies. Restaurants are tricky. Once a waitress wanted us to get chicken wings, saying they were very good. We told her about the shellfish allergies and she cancelled the order because the chicken wings were brined in crawfish stock. Who would imagine that? You have to ask, and they have to know, and be honest, or there could be an easily preventable tragedy.
Even scarier - we ordered a piece of chocolate cream pie to go from an unfamiliar place once, heading to the airport. I glanced at the bill when I was signing my credit card and it mentioned “pecan flour crust”, a little detail that was NOT on the menu. I still have nightmares about what would have happened to D3 if she had eaten a bite of that pie while we were up in an airplane.
Someone selling you food should know all of the ingredients and be able to tell you what they are.
I have allergies and am VERY careful when I order at restaurants because I know about cross-contamination and other ways that food can contain allergens that I am not expecting and which will cause me discomfort. I am fortunately NOT anaphylactic to any food, but since I have food allergies, I try to be cautious.
I have a kid with a peanut allergy and she avoids thai and indian restaurants because it’s too easy to hide peanuts (deliberately or not) in the sauces.
I have a close friend with an almond allergy and that one is more problematic because almond flour can be used as a thickener in almost any kind of food. Peanuts at least have a very strong odor to them and it’s been a saving grace a few times with foods where I could smell the peanuts even though it was supposed to be peanut-free.
We always read labels-it’s just habit now. I look for low sodium for H, peanut free for older D, and trans-fat free for all of us (that stuff will kill ya, just more slowly).
ucbalumnus --not sure. do not get me wrong the guy is a first class jerk.