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New Tue 11 Feb 25 15:54 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Manatee
Pure trivia I'm afraid, for nerdy dullards like me.

I bought a twin pack of Bonne Maman rum babas in Sainsbury's this morning, as a small act of rebellion against healthy eating and because I had been let out unsupervised.

While checking the receipt I noticed that the entry for the above was preceded by confirmation that the purchaser was aged over 18.

Before I wrote to GB News or the Daily Mail to see if I cold provoke them into reporting this as political correctness gone mad, I thought I had better check the ingredients.

To my amazement, 280g of rum babas contains 6.9% "West Indies rum" at 54% ABV.

Working this through, if these claims are accurate then it's safe to say that my two rum babas contain about 1 unit (10ml) of alcohol.

I would not have bet on that.

I think I'll chuck a bit of Armagnac in to spice them up a bit more (I haven't any rum).
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 17:54 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Dog
Reminds me of the (many) rum babas I used to get down my throat in the little coffee shop on Charring Cross Rd. while listening to America by the Nice or Sabre Dance by Love Sculpture.
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 18:24 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - zippy
Unfortunately / fortunately depending on how you look at it...

The barber charged me the OAP rate last week.

I am not 60 yet!
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 19:47 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Kevin
>The barber charged me the OAP rate last week.

>I am not 60 yet!

Knock, knock! "Open Up! Serious Fraud Office!"
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 20:15 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Bromptonaut
>> The barber charged me the OAP rate last week.
>>
>> I am not 60 yet!


Same thing when I was late fifties.

Whether I was honest about my age may have depended on the quality of the cut.

Since the Pandemic I've been DIY with clippers.
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 21:44 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Terry
It's not just alcohol.

Last supermarket visit bought a couple of packs of paracetamol. Went to self checkout. Large beep - needs approval. Usual nonsense - wait a couple of minutes whilst a staff member comes along to unlock the checkout.

In an age of smart systems where the checkout has a camera pointing at me anyway, the system should be able to detect I am nearer to 80 than 20 by a considerable margin and approve automatically.
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 22:25 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Robin O'Reliant
Last time back in the smoke ten years ago we took a trip down to Southend on Sea, where we had a walk down the pier and had lunch at the end if it. We caught the pier train for the return leg of the mile and a third or so trip back. It was fairly full and I was happily leaning on the door when a young lady of Mediterranean appearance stood up and insisted I take her seat. Very kind of her, but being a mere 62 at the time and still capable of comfortably covering sixty hilly cycling miles I was mortified that she would think of me as an old codger.

A lovely gesture, but I suddenly felt very, very old.
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New Wed 12 Feb 25 01:16 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Bromptonaut

>> young lady of Mediterranean appearance stood up and
>> insisted I take her seat.

Similar on the tube in London a couple of weeks ago. I'm 65.

I was in the 'door sentry' position and only going a couple of stops. From my perspective no different to being 19.
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 22:33 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - martin aston
My daughter was asked by a fellow customer in a coffee shop if she was doing her homework on the lap top she was working on. She always gets ID’d buying alcohol in supermarkets and pubs.

So what? Well she’s got two kids and she turns 37 this year. You can’t always tell someone’s age by looking at them.
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New Wed 12 Feb 25 10:03 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Bobby
Problem with these cameras is that they are not necessarily showing the person who is actually doing the purchasing in the eyes of the law.
Many years ago in my Sainsburys days I had to knock back a young boy who was in with his mum, on his birthday, to spend his birthday money on the latest Call of Duty game which is an 18. Boy was 13 I think.
Mum had made a big thing in the checkout of saying to him well it’s your birthday present, have over your birthday money to the lady.
Cashier refused. Woman went bananas. I was called as Duty Manager and I backed up the cashier.
Woman went away raging and came back herself 5 mins later and were refused her as well as we believed she was buying for a minor.

Had been a spate of Local licensing board test purchases and we were not taking a chance!
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New Wed 12 Feb 25 10:27 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Zero
Delighted when picking up my meds that the assistant wanted to charge me.

"I am exempt"
"Why?"
"pensioner"
"you cant be"
"Thank you dear you have made my day"
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New Tue 11 Feb 25 23:42 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - smokie
SWMBO was more than pee'd off when we went to our local to celebrate her 60th with OAP dinners and she didn't get age checked.
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New Wed 12 Feb 25 06:25 
 Age checked in Sainsburys - Falkirk Bairn
A few years back, a week or 3 before Xmas, I was buying a top up of booze. My wife does not drink at all and I only have the odd beer / whisky etc. We always have stock in the house.

Staff had been chatting passing the time with having no customers - self service had a few.

I put the stuff on the conveyor.

Scanned the 1st item and then asked if I was over 18. The other two started to laugh.

At this point I declared that I was over 18 BUT said that on choosing which till to use I was worried if you were old enough to serve me.

She was probably in her late 40s/50s.

The other 2 fell about laughing. Saying "He put you in your place" & "You did not expect that!"
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