Her father is suing.
She has a nut allergy and ate baklava? Because someone told her it didn’t have nuts in it? IT’S MADE OF NUTS!!! Did she eat it with her eyes closed?
She didn’t have an epi pen? She didn’t go to the school nurse? Checked out of school and took a walk instead? What? What?
I don’t have allergies, so someone please help me make sense of this. How could a seventeen year old with nut allergies eat baklava and head to CVS for some Benadryl afterwards?
Isn’t that an unusually bad series of decisions? Darwin Award level? I mean, if it wasn’t this, she might have died trying to dry her hair in the microwave.
I’ve made baklava a lot in my life, even baklava ice cream. I never expected this amount of heated conversation about it 😬 This is something I am accustomed to, but I could see someone new to it not really understanding that these chopped up nuts that have been baked in a syrup are, in fact, nuts. Very unfortunate.
I agree! I love baklava. If someone never eats nuts, I can totally understand how they could eat baklava for the first time and not realize the “crunchy stuff” is made from nuts. They simply don’t have the experience to know what the taste and texture of nuts in syrup inside a flaky layered dessert like baklava are going to be like. The nuts are chopped up pretty small.
People are so quick to victim blame.
So, she was 17. 17 can be super smart in many ways, and sometimes a peak of certain types of creative genius. On the other hand, despite how worldly 17 can feel, most 17 year olds are missing a lot of wisdom you gain only through experience. So I cut her a lot of slack, and “dead” is a pretty serious consequence.
That said, if I’d lived for any number of years with an allergy that would absolutely be fatal without rapid response, even at 17 I would have been extremely cautious about what prepared products I put in my mouth. And I echo another comment: she had a sever but allergy and no Epipen? Were her parents utterly incompetent? I would make sure that’s the one thing she always had with her, and drill into her the consequences. You do not. Fuck. With. Nut. Allergies.
Maybe she developed it late; maybe it had never been a severe reaction before. There are a lot of reasons why this could have gone so wrong without stupidity being involved. But, damn. Food allergies can be really bad, and it seems like someone really fucked up here.
Ya, I live in the US (like this person), and there aren’t a lot of foods like this here. Nuts are usually a topper or entire, or are part of the name.