Spoons are dangerous weapons that cannot be sold to underaged. I suggest we should ban spoons altogether, because also over 25s can use them for potentially offensive end.

Tesco asked a shopper for proof of age when she trie tried to buy a packet of teaspoons, the Daily Mail reports.

Emma Sheppard was forbidden to buy the cutlery unless she showed identification to a shop assistant at her local Tesco.

Till operators at the store in Evesham, Worcs, wouldn’t sell the pack of five teaspoons on Monday night as part of their “Think 25″ scheme, which demands ID from people who look under 25 when buying certain goods.

Emma, 21, from Malvern, had spend around £70 on a food shop with her partner John, 20, when the female checkout assistant asked her for identification, before holding up the offending teaspoons.

“When the assistant asked me for ID I thought John had sneakily put some booze in the trolley, but then when she held up a pack of spoons we looked at her like she was an idiot,” Emma said. “We were both a bit taken aback really – what are you going to do with a packet of spoons that means you need ID to buy them? In this crazy world we live in, you have to be over 18 to buy teaspoons it seems.”

A Tesco spokesperson said: “Some utensils, such as knifes, will carry a “Think 25″ alert when scanned through the checkout. There is an element of common sense involved and this was a mistake, for which we are sorry.”

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