But to us, there’s blind spot about food allergies to begin with, and this type of joke just magnifies it,” Lianne Mandelbaum, mom to a 19-year-old son with a deadly peanut allergy and founder ...

Mandelbaum’s posts on the joke, featuring a photo of her son holding a sign that says, “My food allergy is NOT funny,” have racked up more than 300 comments across her social channels.