Nut so simple

I was sitting in a bar the other day contemplating life and during a lull in my thinking process, brought on my an attack of the munchies, I purchased a bag of dry roasted peanuts.

As I nibbled my way through them trying to get back on the path of inspiration I was amazed to discover, according to the warning notice on the said bag of peanuts, that and I quote....

"Warning may contain nuts or have been processed on machinery also used in the processing of nuts".

This left me severely flummoxed as now I wasn't sure if the bag of savoury snacks actually was what they eluded to be, the warning quite clearly said "May contain nuts" which left me thinking if these weren't nuts then what the heck were they. So In order to allay my fears I asked the barmaid to sample some and she confirmed that they were indeed peanuts of the dry roasted persuasion.

However this meant only one other thing......a nut lottery.

Everytime you buy a bag of these "nuts" you are taking a gamble as, according to the manufacturer, some may have nuts in them and some may not, its a chance you have to take.

I'm now left in the situation of everytime I want a bag I now ask the person behind the bar to open them first to check that there's nuts in them before I actually buy them. Curiously, so far every bag purchased up to now has indeed contained nuts so I don't know what the manufacturers are playing at but they obviously have no concept of gambling odds.

Or have I misunderstood something???