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ID required for BBQ sauce

A Tesco store refused to sell barbecue sauce to a customer because it contained a tiny amount of alcohol and she couldn’t prove her age. Claire Birchell, 25, was told she could not buy the Jack Daniel’s barbecue sauce which has an alcohol content of two per cent.

Staff at the store in in Flitwick, near Bedford, also refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, Philip Dover, 27, who did have ID, because they believed he would just give the bottle to Miss Birchell. She was visiting her parents in Flitwick at the time and wanted to buy the sauce because shops near her home in Liverpool didn’t stock it, reports the Telegraph.

Mr Dover said: ‘We just could not believe it. It’s not as if we were going to go and sit down the park drinking it. Claire lives in Liverpool and she can’t buy the sauce up there so she was really disappointed she couldn’t get it in Flitwick. It just seems crazy over a sauce.“

It is a little crazy, Mr Dover. But then so is travelling 175 miles for barbecue sauce.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .