Chocolate pudding? You’ll have to show ID! Tesco asks 24-year-old for ID ‘because he could burn himself on dessert’

December 1st, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Robert Nemeti’s purchase had to be ‘approved’ at self-service checkout
Staff member asked for ID to buy the £1 dessert in case he burned himself
He described the policy as ‘crazy’ health and safety
Tesco said self-service machines can be ‘temperamental’ and that the pudding should not be ‘an age-restricted product’

By
Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:

08:33 EST, 30 November 2012

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UPDATED:

18:37 EST, 30 November 2012

If you’re lucky enough to look about 18, there’s a good chance you’ll be asked to provide ID at the supermarket to buy alcohol, knives or glue.

Now an addition has been made to that list of potentially hazardous items – chocolate pudding.

Robert Nemeti was amazed when he was asked for ID while buying a microwaveable pudding at Tesco.

Proof is in the pudding: Shopper Robert Nemeti was stunned when he was asked for ID as the dessert posed a risk to the roof of his mouth

Mr Nemeti, 24, was going through the
self-service checkout when an on-screen warning announced that his
purchase had to be ‘approved’.

A member of staff at the store in Southampton hurried over and asked Mr Nemeti to produce identification.

When asked why, the female assistant told him that the Cadbury Hot Chocolate Pudding would get hot when cooked and may burn him.

Mr Nemeti, a photographer, yesterday described the policy as ‘crazy’ health and safety.

He said he did not have any ID on him because he had just ‘nipped to the shop to buy something sweet after work’.

Tesco said the machine should not have requested proof of age for the dessert (file picture)

A member of staff at the store in Southampton demanded Mr Nemeti produce identification showing he was over 18

Luckily the shop worker approved the
purchase anyway, saying she was satisfied he looked old enough to be
trusted with the £1 dessert. Mr Nemeti, from Southampton, said: ‘I
scanned through a pint of milk without any problem and then the pudding.

‘The machine beeped, flashed up a warning on the screen and an annoying automated voice warned “approval needed”.

‘I only bought two items – and they
weren’t alcohol, cigarettes, solvents or sharp – so I was clueless as to
why they would need approval.

The 24-year-old described the request for his age as ‘health and safety gone mad’

‘The woman who was monitoring the
self-service checkouts came over and asked me for identification showing
I was 18. I asked her why and was stunned when she told me: “It gets
hot when you cook it – and you may burn yourself”. Surely the same can
be said of many of the products they sell in any supermarket? Health and
safety has gone crazy if you now have to prove you can be trusted with a
chocolate pudding.’

He added: ‘I explained that I didn’t
have any ID. Thankfully she agreed that I looked over 18 and she scanned
her staff pass to approve the sale.’

Mr Nemeti managed to cook and eat the dessert that evening without injury.

Tesco said: ‘The self service machines
can be temperamental. The pudding should not be an age-restricted
product. It’s a mystery why the machine prompted staff to ask for ID.’

The comments below have not been moderated.

What’s next? Danger of drowning warnings on bottles of water? On Cheese “Danger, May attract rodents”? Or on steak “Do not eat in an Ocean, may attract sharks”. Or even, “Oxygen causes fires, to breathe in this store we require ID”?

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Orrid Pleb
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Plebville, United Kingdom,
01/12/2012 00:16

All credit to the assistant for thinking on her feet. Especially when Tesco said it should not have needed approval and was a glitch. She either has plenty of initiative or is a liar.

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Sean
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Motherwell,
01/12/2012 00:16

Its difficult I know but you just have to say ‘forget it’, I’ll shop elsewhere. Dump the shopping and let them put the lot back on the shelves. If enough of us did that the supermarkets would soon start screaming at the government to change things and its only business that politicians listen to.

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Excalibur
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London,
01/12/2012 00:05

KH, Pontefract,…The fact that a company has to ” make ” its employees ask courteous and helpful questions is a pretty sorry state of affairs in itself, but that you complain that they do is even ‘ sorrier ‘.

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Mary Rose 1
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Lexington NC, United States,
30/11/2012 23:56

how does having ID protect someone from this danger?

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Keithy
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London UK,
30/11/2012 23:54

Not a ‘policy’. It was simply a data entry error. Someone ticked the age restricted box when they shouldn’t have, and then someone tried to justify it with a stupid excuse rather than what it was – an error.

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localzuk
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Minehead,
30/11/2012 23:49

It’s all very stupid with common sense being absent in most supermarkets today. This is why all under age consumers go to corner shops where it’s no questions asked ( mostly)

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David Ashurst
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London, United Kingdom,
30/11/2012 23:19

They need to put up a sign that reads, “You might choke on the food you eat”.

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the_bob
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Temecula, United States,
30/11/2012 23:19

Bobcat London 22.45…Re your comments…
If anyone asked me for ID…………..I would be trilled to bits………………….

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Lyn
,

Wick,
30/11/2012 23:16

Okay… Tesco just invalidated any justification British people have to calling AMERICANS stupid.