Teen dies after eating popular dessert at high school, lawsuit says
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According to the lawsuit, 17-year-old Kayleen Brown, an Atlantic Coast High School senior, attended a school meeting on campus in July 2023 that included food.

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.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’ve eaten a lot of baklava, and aside from tasting the walnuts and expecting they are an ingredient, I’d have had no idea. There is no crunchiness. It tastes like pastry and maple syrup, maybe brown sugar more than anything else.

    Now imagine you’ve never tasted walnuts because you can’t eat them. Are you sure you’d know what was inside?