Tesco's says Coconuts are not a nut!

ScoobieGirl

Got a voucher for extra points in Tesco is I bought any dried fruit or nuts. So I bought some dried coconut. Voucher wouldn't scan, supervisor says dried coconut isn't a nut it's more a baking thing. WELL WHY IS IT ON THE SHELF NEXT TO THE REST OF THE NUTS AND DRIED FRUIT. :mad:

Yes I know it's only a small thing, but everytime I go in Tesco they over charge me or double scan something. So it doesn't take much to get me really cross with them. This time they double scanned my onions so I have to go back again!
The sooner I have saved up the Tesco's vouchers I owe my friend and don't have to go back there the happier I'll feel

UKTigerlily

I dunno about the nut thing but why not just go back when you next go shopping or check the receipt before you leave if it's always happening? Then you'll get a refund & keep the product! It surely should've gone through though as it has to be a fruit or a nut! Maybe it was something in the smallprint like the date?

Lorian

It appears to be a seed, but I wouldn't have known without looking it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut

LittleVoice

And .... I had a Tesco voucher for 25p/25 points (or thereabouts) off "confectionery". I bought sugared almonds (for more than £2) but the coupon wasn't accepted at the till. Customer Service said "confectionery" meant things like sweets and chocolates displayed in the confectionery area - but she could not say that sugared almonds were anything other than confectionery and so "on this occasion" would give me the discount!!!

Another time, I had coupon for discount when spending more than £2 on fruit and veg. I spent more than that on bananas and tomatoes but the till rejected the coupon. I'm sure bananas are fruit and tomatoes are either fruit or veg so I don't know why the till couldn't work it out. CS paid up but it all takes extra time.

Avoriaz

Lots of things are not what we think they are.

Peanuts are not nuts, they are legumes.

Koala Bears are not bears, they are marsupials.

Bombay duck are fish.

There are hundreds more examples. Someone will probably post a link to a list.

uktim29

A coconut is a fruit.

Dan29

A tomato is a berry.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Avoriaz may have been referring to this list:

• Christopher Columbus discovered America, even though people have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Some people and territories that the Europeans found in there were misnamed Indians and West Indies.
• Anti-Semitism is prejudice against Jews, not all Semites.
• Apes are commonly referred to as monkeys.
• Arabic numerals originated in India, not in the Arab world.
• Asteroids are small planets, not star-like objects as their name suggests. However, the name refers to their appearance in small telescopes. A disc is not seen, they appear as points of light, literally star-like.
• In baseball, the statistics on base percentage and slugging percentage are not percentages but averages.
• In logic, begging the question is the term for a type of fallacy occurring in deductive reasoning in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises. However, more recently, "begs the question" has been used as a synonym for "raises the question", a usage often sharply criticized by proponents of the traditional meaning.
• The Blitz was the sustained bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941. Although the word Blitz is a shortening of the German word blitzkrieg, meaning "lightning war," it was not an example of blitzkrieg but was an early example of strategic bombing.
• British Isles is most commonly used to refer to constituent countries of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and Ireland despite the fact that Ireland is not British.
• Catgut is made from sheep intestines.
• Chinese checkers is not Chinese (or even Asian) in origin.
• A coconut is not a nut, but a fruit.
• Lead crystal is not a crystaline solid but an amorphous one—a glass.
• Dry cleaning immerses clothes in liquid solvents that are anything but dry.
• Fibonacci numbers were originally described by Pingala.
• Fireflies are beetles, not flies, though they do fly.
• Fixed income markets no longer deal predominately with fixed (known) payments.
• Fullscreen is a term commonly used for home viewing releases (DVD, VHS, etc.) of theatrical films to differentiate from their widescreen counterpart. Yet, due to the rising popularity of 16:9 HDTV sets, it is, for the most part, the widescreen versions that are technically "fullscreen" (depending on their original aspect ratio.) Plus, most fullscreen versions of modern films, are in fact cut, zoomed, and panned versions of the original widescreen, so while the image fills a 4:3 screen, it is not in fact a "full" picture. The more correct term is "Pan and scan".
• The fundamental theorem of algebra, though a theorem of algebra, may be proved by various non-algebraic means. This leads to the notion that it is "really" a theorem of analysis (or topology, etc.) and not of algebra. The deeper point that disparate fields of mathematics are connected in non-obvious ways remains valid, but designating the "fundamental theorem of algebra" a misnomer is debatable.
• Greenland is mostly arctic and Iceland is mostly tundra.
• Guinea pigs are not pigs, nor are they from Guinea.
• The Hundred Years' War was actually a series of separate campaigns and battles which continued for 116 years (1337 to 1453).
• The Hollandaise sauce, which is french.
• Kansas City is a city in Missouri. (Kansas City, Kansas is a suburban outgrowth of Kansas City, Missouri on the other side of the state line. Kansas City, KS has become a large city in and of itself. See also Kansas City, Kansas).
• Koala bears are marsupials not closely related to the Ursid family of bears.
• The "lead" in pencils is made of graphite and clay, not lead, though lead was originally used for the same purpose.
• A College lecturer in the University of Oxford is paid to give tutorials, not lectures (most lectures are in fact given by College tutors).
• At Cambridge University, the May ball and May Bumps (boat race) take place in June.
• Mustang horses in North America are often referred to as "wild horses" even though they are not, in fact, wild. They are descended from domesticated horses, and are actually feral.
• Newfoundland was considered newly found by those who so named it, but had first been inhabited at least 5,000 years before.
• The Nintendo GameCube is not actually a cube because the sides are not all squares
• The Quad damage power-up on the game Quake III Arena only triples the damage.
• Northwestern University is in northeastern Illinois, a midwestern state. Illinois was, however, part of the historical Northwest Territory.
• The Oktoberfest beer festival actually begins in September.
• Panama hats are from Ecuador, not Panama.
• Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
• Podcasting neither relates to just the iPod, nor does the technology involve any casting as the consumers pull audio data onto their audio players.
• A quantum leap is properly an instantaneous change, which may be either large or small. In physics, it is the smallest possible changes that are of particular interest. In vernacular usage, however, the term is often taken to imply an abrupt large change.
• A radiator doesn't radiate, it works by convection.
• Reduplication, a term in linguistics actually stands for duplication (and not fourfold repetition).
• Scripting language is often used to describe the properties of some implementation of a programming language, or the original intent of the designer of the language, and not the language itself.
• Several sports teams' names are misnomers, including the Detroit Pistons, who actually play in Auburn Hills, not Detroit, the Washington Redskins who play in Landover, Maryland and the Los Angeles Angels who play in Anaheim, California.
• In common usage, a "steep" learning curve implies a difficult learning problem; but on the actual learning curve graph, a steep curve describes a rapid reduction in production cost per unit produced, indicating rapid (easy) learning by the production staff.
• Tin foil is almost always made of aluminium, whereas Tin cans made for the storage of food products are made from steel plated in a thin layer of tin.
• The tremolo arm on guitars is used to produce vibrato; not tremolo. The correct term is "vibrato arm".
• India ink is made in China
• Lead singers of bands also find themselves cast in misnomers, Darius Rucker from the band Hootie and the Blowfish is often referred to as "Hootie" and Debbie Harry from the band Blondie is often called "Blondie".

gyzmo

And bananas are herbs.

tescos are swines for doing this though. I had a voucher for extra points if £2 was spent on fresh veg. Got my usual veg in only to be told at the checkout that it meant bags of veg. Not very fresh then!

gingercordial

I had this recently when an extra points coupon on buying over £4 of fresh fish wouldn't scan even though I'd spent more than £4 on fresh haddock and fresh tuna. They weren't sure why, perhaps I needed to spend over £4 on one item but that's not usually the case with these vouchers. I was in a hurry so unfortunately couldn't stick around to argue.

ScoobieGirl

Wow! What started as a rant has become (for me at least) a very educational thread! I bet the Kansas City one would make a good pub quiz/ Millionaire question. And I would have thought better of the Quake design team :rotfl:

I'm glad the supervisor didn't know that coconuts are a fruit. I would have felt very stupid if that was her response to "are you telling me coconuts are not a nut" now I feel only midly daft and will know better in the future!

Between the sugared almonds, fish and bags of fruit I think I got off lightly.

I don't know if I should be annoyed or greatful that Tesco keep double scanning things. I do get them for free, but it is a pain in the bottom to have to double check everytime and queue up as CS. I think I'm going for greatful as I'm going for the Bronze Olympic Challenge on here. Wasn't impressed the time they double scanned a £5 ready meal and I lost the receipt before I was next in store. :mad: Still now I've discovered MS I know better than buying ready meals!

Anthillmob

!!!!!! is it called an effing coconut then?

op take a look at the label, does it say 'warning may contain nuts'?