New York Stores Begin Enforcing Whipped Cream Law

The Albany Times-Union reports:

Be prepared to show your ID at the grocery checkout if you want to buy whipped cream in a canister. In New York, the popular dessert topping has joined alcohol and tobacco products on the list of items age-restricted for purchase to those 21 and older, and proof of age is now required at the point of sale.

The chargers that propel whipped cream through a canister nozzle are filled with nitrous oxide gas, which can be inhaled to produce a high. The inhalant has long been a popular recreational drug – called “whippets.”

Mona Golub, vice president of public relations at Price Chopper, said that all self-checkout machines will be updated to flag whipped cream cans as age-restricted products beginning on Sept. 1.

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