Tesco's says Coconuts are not a nut!

C_Ronaldo

uktim29 wrote:

A coconut is a fruit.

coconut is a seed according to this site http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/features/coconutis.html

alibongo42

Glad to hear it's not just me who has difficulty using Tesco vouchers.

I let it go when I was told that tomatoes were not a fruit, but when I was told porridge wasn't breakfast cereal, I emailed Tesco to complain about both incidents.

They very quickly got back to me and credited 250 clubcard points to my account. Worked out better for me in the long run!

Avoriaz

s-j-cooper wrote:

I thought it was just Koala, not Koala Bear? Oh well.

You are correct, it is just Koala.:D

Early European settlers to Australia called the Koala the Native Bear and the Koala is still sometimes called the Koala Bear, although it is not even a placental mammal (like bears and most other mammals) - it is a marsupial.

From Wikipedia.

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

hollydays

Started thinking about the episode from "The mighty Boosh" on the desert island-he makes himself a girlfriend from a coconut..lol..

vizcacha

coconuts are apes because they don't have a tail
if they had tails then they would be monkeys

ScoobieGirl

alibongo42 wrote:

...but when I was told porridge wasn't breakfast cereal...

:rotfl: Fantastic. Maybe they competitions to see who can be the daftest. Dare I ask what he/she said it was instead.

Thanks to Morglin I can't get "'I've Got a Luverley Bunch of Coconuts? out of my head. I'd like to see Kylie sing that one.

taxiphil

alibongo42 wrote:

but when I was told porridge wasn't breakfast cereal

They wouldn't let me use a "50 points when you buy any vegetables" voucher even though I'd bought a lettuce and cucumber. The uppity till supervisor came over and snapped "they're not vegetables, they're salad ingredients". No matter how much I tried to convince her that lettuce and cucumber were vegetables, she was having none of it.

So there you go. Lettuce and cucumber aren't vegetables, because Tesco say so, and they're much cleverer than us.

darwin-rover

taxiphil wrote:

So there you go. Lettuce and cucumber aren't vegetables, because Tesco say so, and they're much cleverer than us.

Cucumber is a fruit . Although lettuce definitely is a leaf vegetable .

Pricefamily4

Lorian wrote:

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

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

It's the same as peanuts the have been reclassified as dried pea and not a nut daft isn't it!

So i'm sure there is a false advertising claim there for anyone who wishes to take it up, that on the back of tescos peanuts it says "this product may contain nuts" but it doesn't it contains dried peas!

Morty_007

taxiphil wrote:

because Tesco say so, and they're much cleverer than us.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

I'm starting to find this is the standard answer for most complaints made to Tesco