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The other day I took a coupon into Tesco's - 25 extra clubcard points if I spent £1 or more on dairy products. Good offer bearing in mind that normally you would have to spend £25 to get 25 points. I took a quart of milk (80p) and a carton of yoghourt (38p) to the check-out. Computer says no. Yoghourt is not a dairy product. Eggs from chickens are dairy products. Soya products from a plant are dairy products, but not yoghourt. I said I would put the yoghourt back on the shelf.
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Zambezi
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Tesco are a bunch of cowboys. I refuse point blank to shop with them.
Since you asked, my understanding of dairy product is anything that originates in a dairy shed - ie that comes from an animal's mammaries. Although technically this means cows, goats, sheep and Lord knows what else, in the real world this means cow's milk and its derivatives: cream, cheese, butter, yoghurt. And ice cream if it's made from real cream rather than fish oil and rubber cement. I have a vague interest in the subject due to violent lactose intolerance. Lactose is the sugar found in dairy products. Milk and butter gives me the shits. Yoghurt would put me in hospital. I drink soya-derived "milk" precisely because it is not dairy. Hens' eggs (or, indeed, eggs from Tesco's transsexual battery chickens) are nothing to do with animal milk, unless they changed science and evolution since I was at school.
By the way, what are you doing buying milk by the quart? Britain went metric twenty six years ago, apparently.
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Well, Zambesi,
Tesco still sells milk by the pint and even the six pints.
Love,
Anthony
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JimB
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Soya and eggs are dairy products?! Yogurt is not a dairy product?! This is obviously the work of a highly educated, highly paid executive at Tesco. No, change that, it is the fault of the computer. Dumb machines, never can trust them.
JimB
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Nigel wrote:
I took a coupon into Tesco's - 25 extra clubcard points if I spent £1 or more on dairy products.
Hmmm. As a vegan I wouldn't have Nigel's problem. But would I be able to sue Tesco's for discrimination? After all, they are offering a reduction that discriminates against me. 
The objective of all supermarket chains is to take your money, and the more the merrier!
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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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