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It’s pretty amazing to witness how far awareness has come about food allergies.

It wasn’t that long ago that it seems like folks were supposed to grin and bear it and nobody complained about this stuff.

Oh, how far we’ve come!

But, this issue can undoubtedly sometimes lead to some complications.

In today’s story, a person asked if they’d be wrong to bring a certain dish to an event where one person has a food allergy.

Take a look at what they had to say.

WIBTA? Bringing a food dish to a function when <0.5% has an allergy.

“I am going to an organizational function where we are asked to bring snacks to share as this will be a multi-hour event.

I had already planned a dish and bought ingredients, when at the last moment an announcement was made that a singular person has severe allergies to multiple food types within a family of foods.

Pretty common foods, and very uncommon allergy.

Now what…?

My planned snack would have several of these allergens in it. They later expanded that allergy list to include refreshments that also have these ingredients.

So, seeing as this affects only 1 out of over 200 people attending, would I be wrong  for bringing the snack I already paid for?

This does seem a bit extreme…

I cannot imagine this person asks restaurants to remove this very common list of ingredients from their premises before they enter.

And I plan on labeling the food.”

Check out what readers had to say about this.

This person spoke up.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

This person weighed in.

Another reader spoke up.

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And this Reddit user had a lot to say.

Well, that was interesting…

And it seems like the commenters were pretty one-sided on this one.

Just leave the dish at home and forget about it…it’s probably the best way to go!

You can never be too careful when it comes to food allergies with some folks…

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Matthew Gilligan