Alcohol in pudding not clearly displayed

Well done on your sobriety.

I would agree with others though the responsibility is on you to check ingredients.
I get it's a pain, I'm gluten free you will be amazed at the things I have to check from drinks (vimto, cheaper cola and others contains barley), condiments, yogurts, ice cream etc all things which wouldn't obviously contain gluten.

Think you just have to chalk this one up as an error and move on.

Yes sorry.

Also debunked repeatedly upthread.

Nothing obvious apart from it having "contains alcohol" on it and that the OP has now acknowledged she missed?

If it were cooked. Puddings like sherry trifle and tiramisu aren't cooked.

I would complain too. There is nothing obvious on the front of that packaging showing that it contains alcohol and I could easily have thought that it was suitable for children.

I think it would have been considerate of them to label it more clearly although if you have an issue with a specific ingredient you should always check the ingredients list before consuming it.

However, they have offered you a goodwill gesture and are raising the issue with the relevant department, what more do you want from them?

When alcohol is in desserts though it tends to be an advertised feature on the package because it's a selling point and so that you know what the flavour is.

I would never expect there to be alcohol in it if it didn't, and why does it not specify what alcohol is in it?

In all seriousness though it is on the front right above the expiry date, I expect most people look at the expiry date before deciding to purchase something. Just chalk it up to experience and remember for next time.

Oh boy are you wrong. This ‘desert’ is clearly a gateway drug to the hard stuff.

You can bet your bottom dollar that posters child would have been raiding the local A&E necking hand sanitiser within 6 months of consumption of a teaspoon full of it 😜

Yes, good point. Nut allergies are the most well known but there are other allergies that are equally as serious.

This was very gracious! Not something you see often on here!

Alcohol is a drug ? can you get Gin on prescription ?

Exactly
Why does it have 'alcohol' in the ingredients but not say what alcohol it is?
How are you supposed to know what the flavour is going to be then?

It does say ‘Contains alcohol’ on the front though.

Why are you accepting the £10 when it had ‘contains alcohol’ on the front and in the ingredients?. You made a mistake not seeing the text on the front. Yet you still feel entitled to claim the £10?!

there's alcohol in vanilla extract. you wouldn't be this up in arms over a Victoria sponge.

You are quite right, when I wrote that first post I hadn’t considered that the only things allowed to be in bold are the main allergens, and that it would complicate things. As I have said it later posts, I don’t think that alcohol traces and allergens are comparable when it comes to food labelling so it wasn’t a sensible suggestion of mine.

I also hadn’t seen other posters pointing out that is it printed clearly and separately on the front of the packet that they contain alcohol. That is a much better way of handling it and I stand corrected!

There is an ingredient I avoid so I check the ingredients list of certain foods when shopping. As long as it’s mentioned I don’t see the problem. It’s not like you need to check everything for alcohol but surely a dessert, pudding or cake might be the kind of thing that could potentially contain alcohol so you’d expect to check?

Dairy, gluten, nuts, sugar, animal products and alcohol are all commonly found in puddings. They are also things that many people can’t eat which is why there is a list of ingredients. The information is there so I think the response was fine. Once they have provided that info it is really your responsibility. What more do you want from them?

This was a cold dessert, not a cooked/baked product though.

Anyone with an allergy or actual issue checks ingredients where it was listed.
You aren’t allergic therefore didn’t check.
What’s your actual point?

There are all sorts of ingredients different people need to avoid and they check the ingredients. I don't see how alcohol is any different?

completely get this.

I work at a food bank and any new product that is dropped off to us is given a good check to see if there's any reason it can't go out with anyone's food parcel.

Alcohol is the top one and nuts being the second. And it's really surprising how much stuff is donated that contains alcohol - someone even donated a dozen bottles of mulled wine at Christmas obviously thinking they were doing the right thing. When we can't give items back to the donor we leave them where the volunteers work and some of them are happy to "dispose" of them.

Even silly me who works there - had some spare cash and it was a school break coming up so I bought a dozen jars of peanut butter, thinking easy lunches and snacks for kids. All of them had to be put out in the "at your own risk" area so people could take them but we couldn't put them in the holiday hunger bags being handed out.

Just take some responsibility for yourself as an adult.