Morrison's Supermaket Offends A Muslim Customer

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421789/Morrisons-sold-cheese-onion-pasty-meat-Muslim-family-mistake--offered-ALCOHOL-apology.html

I would be very careful to feed my children anything that had been reduced from 85p to 19p.

But as the father said mistakes do happen

/// Mr Khan said: 'I put it down to human error, everybody makes
mistakes. ///

But what seemed to be the straw that broke the camels back was the fact that he was offered a bottle of Champagne as compensation, since Muslims don't drink????????

But anyway the manager didn't say her had to drink it, he could have sold it on.

But he was lucky to be offered any kind of compensation from Morrisons because on numerous occasions I have been charged incorrect prices on goods that have been labelled half price or buy one get one free etc,

Was I offered compensation for having to drive back to the store to obtain a refund? No instead I was forced to queue at customer services and then take part in cross questioning, then wait while a store worker checked out the offer on the self, before finally receiving the balance of cash back.

Surely Mr Khan there must be plenty of Muslim shops who would be sure to serve you and your family with Muslim acceptable food, but I don't know about being given a 66p discount on a 85p item.

[humbersloop]

and there, jj, you have it

given AOG's ire about, in no order, tins, strawberries, special offers, cream of tomato soup and luxury mincemeat, the next time I see the word muslim in a post of his, I'll mentally replace it with Morrisons - and the world will be better explained

you don't get this nonsense at Waitrose

[joggerjayne]

How can anyone become agitated about (to take but one example from Sloop's list) ... strawberries?

Unless you have one of those strawberry allergy things.

Then I can see that you might become agitated.

Particularly if you ate one.

[Caribeing]

Supermarkets are self service stores you choose the food you want to buy if he was unsure shouldn't have bought the product seems to me he wanted a bargain buying from the reduced shelf.

[Baldric]

The product was wrongly labeled.

[jomifl]

To be pedantic the default content of a pasty is meat unless stated to be vegetarian. It follows that a cheese and onion pastywould contain meat plus cheese and onions. It appears that the muslim wasn't completely familiar with some British cultural matters..... :-)

[FredPuli43]

Quite right,AOG.why was this story in a national newspaper and your problem with a supermarket wasn't ? Why do you think this is the case? And it was in the Daily Mail too

[ludwig]

jj // I think the fact that he's Muslim is irrelevant.
We should stop pandering to self indulgent, mardy, whinge arses. //

Got to be a best answer contender AOG.

[naomi24]

^^I'll second that.

[ferlew]

I have just been in the Co-op, and I was grossly offended to see poppadums reduced to £1. I am a methodist!

[anotheoldgit]

joggerjayne

/// How can anyone become agitated about (to take but one example from Sloop's list) ... strawberries? ///

Oh how some are so easily dragged into remarking on something they know nothing about by another who is selective in his information.

If you had cared to have read the correct details, you would not have failed to notice that the strawberry incident was in reference to the fact that I once bought a tin of strawberries only to find upon opening the tin, that they contained peas.

Then some dare to blame the Daily Mail for false and incorrect reporting.

[Hypognosis]

Ichkeria's AOGometer post raised the most chuckles for me, so far, with ferlew's not far behind.

@AOG
//Then some dare to blame the Daily Mail for false and incorrect reporting. //

I've yet to see that happen. It gets a regular panning for just being reactionary all the time. It would projectile vomit*, if it could.

* (c) Walliams/Lucas

[Orderlimit]

Looks like EDL's Tommy Robinson Free Steak Dinner at Selfridges :

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/18/selfridges-edl-row_n_3950612.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

[Evilninja]

SUPER ANGRY

For pity`s sake, really !!

Does everyone in the UK have to now be aware of everyone's religion or customs, society has gone mental, fair enough he had a complaint and was offered a gesture of goodwill, ok it was not acceptable to him in particular, but instead of just refusing politely and saying sorry I cant accept that, it is now splashed across the media for his 5 minutes of limelight, almost as if he was proffered a pile of dogs mess.....

Is it just me, and before anyone gets on their high horse please bear in mind that I lived with a Sikh girl for 4 years and suffered reverse racism because I am caucasian, but why do we give credence and fuel these petty minor occurrences, I honestly believe that the media is to blame for a huge amount of ignorance of late and it is getting worse.

Frankly I despair where this is all going, anyone else feel the same?

[jomifl]

Evilninja, the solution to the problem is to not have anything to do with anyone remotely foreign seeming.
'I refused to serve the gentleman me lud 'cos him being foreign I didn't want to inadvertantly offend him and end up in court'.

[Evilninja]

Jomifl

That would be great, however as our shopkeepers are of all nationality`s it would be a bit of a problem to actually buy stuff...... lol

[boxtops]

/It follows that a cheese and onion pastywould contain meat plus cheese and onions./

No, it doesn't. If you look at the article, this is a "cheese and onion slice", not a pasty. They only ever contain cheese and onion (except, of course, when they don't).

[jomifl]

Perhaps the answer is to have a ghetto for each nationality, religion, sect etc. That would be a true multicultural society as each culture would stay un-diluted. :o)

[Cathyhuns]

One wonders what Mr Khan said to Morrisons. If he said "you sold me a cheese pasty and it's got meat in it", how does he expect Morrisions to know he's a Muslim? He might just have been an upset vegetarian. Not everyone called Khan is a Muslim.