"I don't think I feel comfortable selling you that...."

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Me buying Stilton from the local cheese shop, with my two dc and stupid dp who asked if I should be eating it. Then the assistant piped up " quote above"

Check the stupid fucking NHS website before ever speaking to me again you twats

Rant over, I walked out with the kids. There are plenty of other cheese shops in york..... Left dp to buy cheese from stupid cow

Bugger, that shop's really close to me and my work! But I'll boycott it for you OP! How bloody ridiculous, how dare she?!

I've just remembered: I treated myself to a six pack of shandy for over Christmas, and DH did that joking/no-I'm-not-joking tone of voice saying "Don't hurt the baby!"

The alcohol content is 0.9%

Complain! I have been "told" by so many people I can't have Stilton and had to get the NHS guidelines out twice recently. Mind your own bloody business, people

I was walking down the street once smoking a fag and a homeless man said, should you be doing that? He'd assumed I was pregnant. I bloody wasn't! ( just have a fat tummy and slim legs, typical apple shape )

Bloody cheek!

Sometimes on the tube people would offer me their seat ( again, cos I looked pregnant ). Normally I'd say no but if I was tired I'd gladly accept it!

FFS, aside from the fact that it's fine to eat and also none of her fucking business, you could have been buying it for other people to eat.

What a nosy twat.

AWholeLottaNosy

Twats !

I know BadIdeaBear it's annoying isn't it but they didn't have much choice today either....

I'm going to buy a wheel of Stilton for Christmas and fill the fucker with Port. And I know where I'm not going to purchase my lovely cheese wheel from....

My favourite Christmas treat is Stilton with homemade cranberry sauce, both cold from the fridge, eaten stood up, with loads of butter too.

It is actually all I really like about Christmas really, the food and drink

I bet no pregnant woman ever has had anyone refuse to sell her bagged salad.

You should have asked in a loud voice "WHY? DOES YOUR STILTON HAVE LISTERIA IN IT?"

I think that the assistant was well meaning. She was worried about potential harm to your baby.

Why didn't you just say "The NHS website says Stilton is fine in pregnancy" with a smile.

That would have been the end of the matter and she would have been reassured.

The attitudes on this thread are really aggressive and shameful.

Oh gwad...I hate that person on your behalf...fuck the fuck off (really wish you'd bought the cheese)

Really Greencurtain? The fact that a complete stranger thinks that it's any of her business over cheese? People are sounding off because it's clearly ridiculous and the OP was not rude or aggressive in the shop which is surely the point

When I was (only slightly) underage and off to Reading festival, my at the time very heavily pregnant older sister bought me a big bottle of vodka and a pack of cigarettes. Shopkeeper didn't bat an eyelid

It is rude.
so many strangers think they have the right to offer unsolicited advice to pregnant women.
I bet if an obese person walked into a deli and ordered loads of cheese and cake, not a single person would offer advice about calories or suggest they were unwilling to serve an overweight person.
It's my body and everyone else can feck off.

That what I did do greencurtain although I had to wait to get my words out as they were are going on about what French women do...they weren't actually listening.

I have to say she also didn't really look concerned about my baby only concerned perhaps that she may get in trouble somehow.

I am 36 I don't need policing by a "cheese elf"

The fact of adult women being told what they may or may not do by random people in shops is infuriating.

"I don't feel comfortable selling you that" FUCK OFF.

Yes just shop somewhere else in future

Love my Stilton. I love it with pork, steak, crackers, on it's own - can't get enough of it!
(Fellow 'Yorker' - actually a village south of it!)

I bit the head off my manager today who helpfully told me that I shouldn't be eating my prawn sandwich, prawn sandwiches are the only thing I can stomach at the moment!

ooh, was not looking forward to a stinky cheese-free Xmas, forgot about Stilton for some reason... thanks OP. And wishing you a huge round of stilton for Christmas

Cheese police - love that.

That thing about the French and their cheeses... Conflicting info and "worried" shop assistants in France too sadly.

Not sure if and how it differs from UK but blue cheeses are only officially allowed if made from pasteurised milk (Roquefort is a no, Saint Agur is a yes). And non pasteurised but "cooked" (sorry I don't know the terminology) is allowed too like grilled Raclette or Comté.

I really wish we had official guidelines like the NHS ones, so easy to be confused (but let's say that 99% of FR. women have a bitch resting face so comments are retracted very quickly).

I think maybe a raised eyebrow and a "do you think then, that you might have chosen the wrong career path?" to the shop assistant would have been well called for.

And the the DP - "Maybe you would feel more "comfortable" about what food I put in my body if you actually read the fucking guidelines".

Oh the rage!!!!!
I would have gone effing mad!!
Definitely shame on Twitter, Facebook, website reviews etc.

Seriously, French and Japanese women have some of the healthiest babies on the planet. If the government are so fearful of listeria (yet no one worries about pregnant women buying packaged salad or sandwiches), why not just have a listeria blood test as part of the screening?! Bonkers.

You should have asked in a loud voice "WHY? DOES YOUR STILTON HAVE LISTERIA IN IT?"

mumseumum!

Yes !! That would have been the correct response. Too stunned to think of anything witty to say either.

On further investigation it appears my favourite cheese shop has changed hands which is why it was all weird and talking about frickin cheese elves. So will be using another one as they have gone seriously downhill with choice and choice of staff !!

I'd still tweet them ! Can't believe they said that.

I'd have just said what the fuck has it to do with you ?