Doing his bit to promote the horrors of nut allergies is Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos. He has a violent allergy to peanuts, which meant things went a bit nasty when a friend recently fed him a hazelnut delicacy - baklava - without noticing the small print on the packaging that said 'may contain traces of peanuts'. Kapranos told the Daily Star: "I had a horrific night retching and retching blood and bile until 5.30 in the morning". Fortunately the Franz man doesn't suffer from anaphylaxis - where the allergy sufferer's throat swells up and restricts breathing - so the really dangerous thing associated with the allergy didn't apply. But nevertheless - be careful of those peanuts kids.
May 23, 2005
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Franz Ferdinand man has run in with a peanut
Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos was ill after eating baklava containing traces of peanuts, which he is allergic to, as he warned fans to be careful.