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Sure, they're sealed but you can buy them in the store, open them up and eat them. In the store. Many people do that, every day.
It's one thing to be in a small convenience store like 7-11 and start to eat the hot dog while in line, but come on... a Target? In any of those large department stores with clothing, furniture, toys and all that, it's really uncool to be eating while browsing those aisles. I certainly don't want traces of food on new items I and thinking of buying. It's just very inconsiderate and uncouth.
And just because there isn't a posted sign telling people not to eat in the store, doesn't mean that it's okay to do so. Do we really need to become a total nanny state?
1. He would be leaving crumbs and yes, possible traces of peanut butter that could affect those with a peanut allergy.
People can leave crumbs anywhere though. Restaurants, playgrounds, park benches, trains, buses, movie theaters, food courts etc. Are people supposed to stop eating in all public places because someone might come along an hour later who has a peanut allergy? At what point does it become absurd? I see parents opening a bag of chips or candy so their kid has something to snack on in the store all the time. If the kid isn't making a mess, I don't think it's a big deal.
It's a good thing all these snowflake parents weren't alive during the Spartan days, when defective kids got tossed off cliffs. I wonder what tomorrow's outrage will be?
Yes totally bloody insane!!
Tommorows complaint: IM MAD I CANT OPEN THIS UNTIL I PAID!
I don't think a kid eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a store is at much risk of killing anyone, but it is just bizarre to be using a large department store as a picnic site. I can't even imagine feeding my kid lunch while shopping for clothing, or whatever mom was looking for in Target.
Kids get fed at home, or in the car if you can't make it home, or stop at a park.
I guess on the plus side for mom, she hadn't bought the kid a big bucket of fried chicken to munch on while being pushed around the store so there was some room for that family's behavior to be even worse.
My only problem with the PB sandwich is that it is messy. In that context, it shouldn't be eaten in a store, but I'm fine with less messy snacks and eating peanuts in public.
I often find the 'no peanuts' crowd annoying. I'm willing to make some accommodations. IMO, they overreach and try to control everyone else.
A local grocery store chain gives free fresh cookies from the Bakery to children who come into the store. I've seen other grocery stores do pieces of free fresh fruit for children, presumably to eat while in the store. I realize that a regular grocery store is a bit different to a Target (as Target has clothes, linens, etc) but still...
My middle son always chooses a Peanut Butter cookie. Most children (including mine) will eat their cookie while sitting in the cart while shopping at the local chain. Nobody has ever batted an eyelid about that, even about the Peanut Butter cookies.
It sounds like people are making a mountain out of a molehill, even in the day and age of a higher prevalence of allergies.
I remember that when I was very young and accompanying my mom to the store, she would buy me a box of Animal Crackers, the kind in the box that looked like a circus car, to eat while we were shopping. Having a snack while shopping didn't seem like a big deal and didn't make me spoiled or fat.
My take on it is that all the Targets I know have a fast food restaurant like Subway inside by the front entrance. The mom should have taken her kid there to eat his peanut butter sandwich. Otherwise, yes it is unacceptable that he would be eating it anywhere else in the store.
1. He would be leaving crumbs and yes, possible traces of peanut butter that could affect those with a peanut allergy.
2. Inside a store is really not clean enough to be eating anything, let alone sandwich which is held with bare hands.
3. I really hate parents who can't say no to their kids or tell them to wait to eat or do anything (except needing to go to the bathroom). If it was mealtime, then the whole family should be eating at a regular mealtime. So why isn't the mom joining her kid in eating her own sandwich? Why couldn't they eat in their car if they didn't want to sit at the restaurant? And if we are talking afternoon snack, then her kid is a fatty waiting to happen. Kids need to learn discipline and patience. And there is nothing wrong with feeling pangs of hunger. It's just the body saying that it's getting time to eat again, but nothing bad is going to happen if the meal doesn't happen right away. It's okay to ignore hunger pangs. It's all about mind over matter.
No wonder humans have a tendency to obesity.
This is spot on in every respect.
The fact that it's become normal to give in to every hunger pang and to eat wherever and whenever we want is EXACTLY why we have so much obesity.
I don't think a kid eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a store is at much risk of killing anyone, but it is just bizarre to be using a large department store as a picnic site. I can't even imagine feeding my kid lunch while shopping for clothing, or whatever mom was looking for in Target.
Kids get fed at home, or in the car if you can't make it home, or stop at a park.
I agree with this. Allergies aside, why is walking around a store an appropriate time to give your kid lunch? Or, why is it appropriate to teach the kid they can eat wherever whenever? Kids should learn boundaries and acceptable and reasonable behavior. How many adults walk around the store with a sandwich?
Are you so dang busy that you can't actually eat a meal with your kid and then go shopping? It bugs me to see people pick a package off the shelf, rip it open, and let their child munch during the whole shopping trip before paying for the thing too.
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