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As a Chef you learn a lot about food allergies and different dietary requirements and the one that I dread the most is a customer with an anaphylactic nut allergy.
As far as I know a few nut crumbs can be enough to kill someone with a serious nut allergy, it must be so restrictive for people who suffer from it.
Nuts used to be a main staple of my diet, until I met my wife. My wife has a severe peanut and tree nut allergy, we have to check the ingredients on everything because anything that says "may contain" or " made on shared equipment" is potentially a trip to the hospital and just not worth the risk. Soft serve is some of the only ice cream she can have when we go out because of potential cross contamination from the scoop. We have to ask everyone what kind of oil they fry in if we go out to eat.
Mostly we don't go out to eat, we just cook for ourselves and are very diligent about checking ingredients and the allergy warnings. I've bought chocolates and all kinds of stuff, even lentils one time, that I read through the ingredients and didn't see any nuts or anything, but somewhere not near the ingredients is the allergy warnings saying may contain and I missed it.
It's all worth it.