From: Minnie Bannister 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Unfinished Hardwood  Floors
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:49:21 -0500

On 03/03/04 12:17 pm Jess Anderson put fingers to keyboard and launched 
the following message into cyberspace:

>>>Within a lot of the older steakhouses & bars they would drop
>>>their peanut shells on the floors so the peanut oil would
>>>absorb into the wood.  So... could you use just raw peanut oil
>>>on unfinished hardwoods?  Just a thought..

>>The oil in a peanut is 99.9 per cent within the nut, not in the
>>shell.  Of course ordinary consumers drop at least 1 or 2 per
>>cent of nuts.  Even so, thus impregnating a floor would have
>>taken quite a few years . . .

> Of course, people allergic to the nuts would never be able to
> set foot in the place, which might include plumbers and
> electricians and your favorite aunt.

Perhaps you were only joking, but if not . . .

Are you sure about that? I am allergic to sunflower seeds (rare but 
well-documented allergy) -- but only to the seeds. I can smell 
sunflowers and eat food cooked in sunflower oil without a problem. It 
could be that peanut allergy works similarly.

MB