Shopper asked for proof of age to buy Asda teaspoons

The article quotes a store person ans saying it sounded like a mix up with the bar codes, but it sounds to me more like an urban legend.

Meaning I doubt it ever happened, yet another one of those stories where someone wants you to believe in political correctness or something run wild, when it is just an imagination running wild. Happens all the time but people SWEAR it was a true story.

And the fact that the Telegraph reported it doesn't make it any less a legend, newspapers get suckered by urban legends ALL the time.

Well. as a sheeple and Englishmen (who obviously welcomes the nanny state) I have taken all my teaspoons, desert spoons and soup spoons and melted them all down - just to be on the safe side.