Quiche Police

This was in today's paper, one of the funniest things I've read for a while.



Buying a quiche? Prove you are 21

By Nick Britten

A TESCO checkout assistant refused to sell a slice of quiche to a shopper until she showed identification proving that she was over 21.

Christine Cuddihy, 24, was stunned when the assistant at a store in Cannons Park, Coventry, refused to sell her the 51p piece of cheese and onion tart because "she looked under 21".

In the end, Miss Cuddihy produced her driving licence in order to make the purchase.

"The girl told me, 'You don't look over 21. I need to see some proof of age'," she said.

"I told her I was certain the proof of age laws did not apply to quiche but she just said, 'We have to be really strict now and this applies to quiche bought over the counter.'

"At first I thought she was joking but her face was deadly serious. I didn't quite know what to say. It was very embarrassing. What on earth is dangerous about a slice of quiche?

"It's not even like I was buying a whole quiche to binge on."

Miss Cuddihy, from Leamington Spa, said' she spent several minutes arguing with the cashier, a woman in her mid-thirties, but hunger got the better of her.


I put the emphasis on the sentence with the bold type because I sometimes think that this could happen in the not too distant future.