Certain foods simply no longer get served in restaurants for a variety of reasons.
You can’t buy foie gras in the United States anymore because many Americans consider the process used to make the fattened duck liver delicacy cruel. And while fast-food chains probably never considered selling foie gras, the same controversy caused (at least partially) Restaurant Brands International’s (QSR) – Get Free Report Burger King to drop its veal parmesan sandwiches in the 80s.
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Burger King has brought back its chicken parmesan “long” sandwich, in fact it’s on menus now, but the veal disappeared in the early 80s and has never come back. It’s not only animal rights activists who have forced restaurants to make changes.
Some foods are only served selectively because as a society we have become more sensitive to people with life-threatening allergies. Being allergic to a food can mean different things. Some people experience gastrointestinal problems if they ingest gluten or dairy while others have allergies that can cause airways to close up, leading to a possible death.
That’s why so many schools across the country ban peanut butter and other peanut-containing products. Peanuts are a common allergen that people can have serious, even terminal, reactions to and that has largely kept peanuts off the menus at fast-food chains.
You can trust workers in a high-end restaurant to learn about risks and cross-contamination. Asking the same of lower-paid fast-food workers may increase the risk of a problem. That’s at least partially why McDonald’s (MCD) – Get Free Report has made the crushed peanut topping for its sundaes optional for franchisees and many have dropped it.
Now, despite the fact that some people with peanut allergies can have a reaction from a small amount of cross-contamination — the chain has added a new Peanut Butter Crunch McFlurry nationwide.
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