Supermarket customer refused pasta purchase by follower of Flying Spaghetti Monster

[dipsydoodle]

A supermarket worker and strict adherent to the teachings of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been criticised after refusing to sell customers any pasta-based products.

http://newsthump.com/2013/12/23/supermarket-customer-refused-pasta-purchase-by-follower-of-flying-spaghetti-monster/

Associated news elsewhere.

M&S apologises after Muslim assistant refused to sell customer alcohol. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/23/marks-and-spencer-muslim-alcohol

[drm604]

1. For those who don't realize, it's a satire site.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I've added the background now for completeness.

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[PoliticAverse]

3. His Noodly Appendages are sacred!!... n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Damned fundamentalists!

Even the Pastafarians have them in their midst.

[dipsydoodle]

5. I got the impression from the Guardian article

that M & S just didn't see this coming.

Maybe supermarkets should be careful who they put on tills - would create an absurdity for shoppers to need to shout out from the back of queues "any issues with pork or booze in the aisle" I've got better things to do than carry a megaphone around with me. I might have issues with the crap bread that Sainsbury's sell but I've never had a problem checking out there.

[non sociopath skin]

7. Mind you, reading the Torygraph article, it's not just the checkout or M&S with issues ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10533728/MandS-faces-furious-backlash-from-customers-over-Muslim-policy.html

Christians selling trousers to lesbians? How long has THAT been a spiritual issue?



And a "Ho Ho Ho" to you too!

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[muriel_volestrangler]

9. You do get the 'underage checkout till operator' problem

where they have to have an adult worker OK the sale of alcohol. But the supermarkets I've had that happen in normally have a roving operator, or one on the next till, who can do it with little delay. If this had happened to me, I'd have suggested that, rather than having to collect up the shopping and go and queue for another till.

Really, though, I'd suggest they could pass it through - it's not like the till operator was marketing it to you, and they don't touch the actual pork, either. They're no more responsible for its consumption by operating the till than by doing non-pork or alcohol-related work in the same store.

[non sociopath skin]

10. I was out for a meal with some colleagues, one of whom was Muslim, a while back ....

When she found that it was my birthday, my Muslim colleague insisted on paying for my meal - but not my wine.

I said that I wouldn't have let her anyway as I know it would have compromised her beliefs.

And a good time was had by all ....



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[customerserviceguy]

6. Brilliant!

Humor is sometimes the best way to express the absurdity of a situation.

[non sociopath skin]

8. As Durante used to say "Everybody wants ta get inta da act!"

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/ukip/article/3286/ukip-islamophobia-strikes-again

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