Worst supermarket substitutions

[Carrie7469]

I was lucky to get a delivery slot and ordered a couple of boxes of cat food. The delivery note says it was unavailable and they substituted it for dog food 🤔.

Is this the worst substitution? Tell me yours.

At Xmas I got chip shop curry sauce instead of cranberry sauce.

I once ordered ginger beer for my DH’s nan who was coming for a bbq and on that morning, Tesco turned up with a pack of frozen ginger.

My worst was frozen dumplings instead of frozen Yorkshire puddings. That was a few years ago. I just couldn’t understand the logic!

I got put off online shopping by the substitutions (and unavailables).

I once ordered a cauliflower to make cauli cheese for my veggie DD. I got a lettuce...

and I regularly ordered 4 trays of 24 cans of dog food (had large dogs and this would be a month's supply). At least 50% of the time I would receive 4 single cans. In the end I reasoned that if I was going to have to drive to the shop to buy dog food, I might as well get all the rest of the shopping while I was there!

Ours have always been disappointingly sensible, but someone once told me that they had ordered a bunch of flowers and received a packet of seeds.

Unsweetened soya milk for the kids breakfast substituted with chocolate milk! It has the consistency of chocolate sauce.
It was spotted straight away by DS, so they're now having it on their Weetabix.
DD was very vocal about not being left out, so she's having it as well. Early stages of baby led weaning Astronomical level of mess!

I ordered brunette shampoo, they sent brown hair dye.

Turkey dippers instead of an actual turkey. 2 days before Christmas...

Evaporated milk instead of condensed milk. I mean I'm not the greatest baker and only know a few recipes that I needed my condensed milk for but none of them work with evaporated milk.
Most disappointing was when I ordered meat patties to make dh "fakeaway" McMuffins as a anniversary surprise (yes he is very low maintenance) and instead they sent me a block of sausage meat. Turned what was going to be a no fuss treat into a pain in the arse.

I will never get tried of mentioning this one.

This might be a myth, but apparently a friend of a friend once included a pregnancy test in her online order. Since the shop was out of stock, she was sent a packet of condoms. I think it was s bit late for that.

I send my ds his Christmas food shop as part of his presents
He’s a single man, so I always send one of the turkey breast joints in foil (says serves 3/4 on packaging) which does for a couple of meals...

Sainsbury’s sent a full turkey, with legs, wings, the odd feather.... feeds 16/18 !!

He phoned to ask why I’d sent him an albatross for Christmas😳 and he had to section it up as he had neither a tray or oven big enough!!