Feeding other peoples Children????

[Glamourcide]

I always check with a child's parent before offering the child food. For all I know the kid is deathly allergic to any manner of substances or has never tasted sugar in his/her life and their mother would be absolutely mortified if I got the little tyke hooked on the stuff

But as for people giving DD1 food... I suppose I'm pretty blase. She has no allergies that we know of (and she's tried just about everything) and loves her junk as much as the next person, so I don't mind if someone offers her a lollipop or whatever if we're visiting... candy from friends/acquaintances makes up like 0.0002% of her diet so I don't give a rat's if it's junk, plenty more opportunity to eat some fruit later
I find most people say, 'Oh, is it okay if she has x?' as kind of an afterthought (as in, they're already handing it to her lol), but like I said, I don't worry as I'm pretty casual about what she eats. I can definitely understand the risk of allergies and that different parents have different ideas on what constitutes 'decent' food, so I always try to remember to ask beforehand.

ETA: I did get a bit at someone handing my (at the time) 3-month-old baby a lollipop while she was in her sling... I'm like, 'Uh, I know you have a 2-year-old... was she eating anything other than breastmilk or formula at that age?' and he was like, 'Oh. Yeah. My bad.' I laughed, but was like wtf?? She's a BABY, babies don't eat food period, let alone lollies!