Ananova:

A supermarket refused to sell barbecue sauce to a 25-year-old customer because it contained a tiny amount of alcohol.

Tesco, at Flitwick, near Bedford, refused to sell the Jack Daniel's barbecue sauce, which is 2% alcohol, to Claire Birchell.

Staff also refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, Philip Dover, 27, who did have ID, because they believed he would just give the bottle to Miss Birchell.

She was visiting her parents in Flitwick at the time and wanted to buy the sauce because shops near her home in Liverpool didn't stock it.

Mr Dover told the Daily Telegraph: "We just could not believe it. It's not as if we were going to go and sit down the park drinking it.

"Claire lives in Liverpool and she can't buy the sauce up there so she was really disappointed she couldn't get it in Flitwick. It just seems crazy over a sauce."

A spokesman for Tesco said "Our staff are incredibly vigilant when it comes to the sale of alcohol.

"However in this case it appears that there has been an error of judgement. We apologise for any upset caused."