Does a pasta source contain pasta?
Nov. 20th, 2010 12:22 pmLatest batch of vouchers I got for my Tesco loyalty card included one for 40p off Tesco chilled pasta sauces. So I turned up at the checkout with a tub of sauce and presented the voucher. The assistant scanned both and the voucher wasn't accepted. She looked at the tub and said it was not a pasta sauce, it was a beef sauce. (Fully, it was beef bolognese sauce.) OK, she was of Chinese or similar ancestry, but she was working in a supermarket. (And isn't there a story that Marco Polo brought pasta back to Italy from China?) Another assistant came to the same conclusion, and mis-read the voucher as saying "chilli pasta sauce". Finally, their team leader was called and he told them to override the scanner.