Have you ever been so disappointed in a food order before

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So today I really fancied an egg mayo sandwich and We all know what that is traditionally supposed to look like, so imagine my surprise when i went to the cafe by work and asked for one

What i got was a thin layer of mayo followed by a layer of egg and another layer of mayo, in my surprise at seeing this made in front of my eyes I didn't think quick enough to stop them and I was left with something that i didn't actually ask for

It was very dry 🙄

@OfTheNight

When I was pregnant I went to McDonald’s for. Big Mac. I very rarely have them but I really fancied one that day. I was avoiding onion at the time as it gave me horrific indigestion. So, whilst giving my order, I asked for no onion. Picked up the order at the next window and drove home. When I opened it, there was no burger. It was literally the parts of the bread roll and lots of chopped onion. Nothing else, no burger patties, no cheese. Nothing but onion and bread.

Something like this happened with my DM in a McDonald's in New Zealand.

She asked them at the counter for a plain cheeseburger. We went to sit down, and when they brought our order over, they'd given her the patty and cheese, but no bun. Confused, she went back and repeated it again. This time, it came with no burger and just a bun.

I think she went a tad ballistic after the 3rd missed attempt. I have no idea what they were doing - might have been our accents 😂

I once went with some friends to a pub that mainly sold pies. We ordered steak pies, chicken pies and vegetable pies. They all arrived without the pie crust as apparently they had run out. THAT'S NOT A PIE THEN.

@Rainbowandscarlett

OMG - this exact scenario happened to me in a pub in Stoke! It was supposed to lasagne and garlic bread. 70% of the lasagne was still frozen and it was NOT garlic bread. This was in the late 90s though.

In Zante we went to a Chinese restaurant and it was delicious. We went back a few days later and I decided to get noodles instead of rice. It was spaghetti I still ate the rest

This thread is so funny!
It should go in classics.
Food is a big reason I prefer to holiday in the U.K.

Disney food was especially disappointing- like PP said. DS was not impressed at the crisps with his £14 hot dog. And yet this and turkey legs seem to be the only non popcorn snack you can buy in the parks! I’ve never been so hungry on holiday.

Back here went to a nice non chain Italian restaurant. I wanted a calzone but the only non meat one had mixed peppers as one of the ingredients. I asked to have just the red peppers instead of the mixed. But what they served me was the pizza based stuffed with only red peppers! Non of the other ingredients!

Recently we tried a Chinese takeaway as it’s something we almost never get. I ordered duck in plum sauce imagining a nice bit of duck breast with a bit of sauce over like I’ve had in restaurants before. It was the most inedible thing I’ve ever seen. The tray had 70% batter and 30% sugary syrup. It was more of a dessert! Only some fingernail sized pieces of duck to be found, beyond disgusting!

I once got spaghetti in France that came with a raw egg in its half shell in the middle.

In one small town restaurant with no veggie option on the menu I asked if they had anything off menu and was told they had veggie lasagne. We heard the microwave ping before he brought out Tesco’s offering.

We ordered from a gorgeous Thai place at the end of the last lockdown. DH was due in from work at 8 and starving. I spent €60 on the order which didn't arrive until 10, and it was cold. I was so disappointed I've refused to order anything from there again, and I used to love it.

I once got spaghetti in France that came with a raw egg in its half shell in the middle.

I often do that when I cook spaghetti at home. Sometimes use raw egg as a dip with salad too, and raw egg yolk is nice to dip pizza crusts into. I love a raw egg!

Nearly every takeaway! You look for ward to it and it's either dry (chinese, fried rice etc) or chippy and dripping on grease. We've given up, the plan was to save takeaway money and have one decent meal out a month but the lockdown 3 happened

@OfTheNight Same thing happened to me with a McDonalds breakfast a few weeks ago. I was raging!

Fab thread!I ordered a vegetarian special from a posh pub once,a pub locally renowned for it's good food. I cant remember how they described it on the menu but what I received was a bowl of salad leaves with a small handful of sparsely flavoured couscous. I was so disappointed. It was about £12(early 2000s) and I left absolutely starving!

Off topic this but as a student I used to work lunchtimes in a pub that sold toastie, pies, burgers etc.
My boss who was a lovely man was very stressed one day and had had a go at me as I'd got a customer's order wrong, and I'd apologised and said the customer's order had been particularly confusing, which it had.
Anyway an oldish man came to order and my boss said 'I'll take this order, you'll get it wrong!'
Man asked for our soup and sandwich off tthe lunch menu.

Boss 'What sandwich do you want?'
Man 'What? Oh, just an ordinary one'.
Boss 'No I mean what sandwich, what do you want in it?'
Man 'Just an ordinary sandwich '.
Boss 'No, I mean what do you want in it?'
Man 'Nothing!'
Boss 'So you just want bread?'
Man 'No, soup and sandwich!'
I then went over and said 'do you want cheese and tomato, cheese and ham, egg mayo...?'
'No no! Just a sandwich!'I cant remember how we actually worked that order out

I like dipping plain bread into soup

Maybe that’s what he wanted?

He would have said yes to the bread option then wouldent he?

He was a very well dressed articulate man and it was so confusing!
Sorry, thread derail!

Absolutely hate when you get off chips from McDonald's and the chippy, so disappointing.

I ordered what I thought was a slice of courgette frittata a few years back while on holiday in Spain. Turns out it was baby eels! 🥴

Has anyone ever ordered brushetta and it NOT been disappointing?
I also hate when you order fresh olives and they're clearly from a jar.

Side salads that are just a bowl of iceberg with a halved tomato plonked on top.

Brushetta that's a couple of crisp bread type things with a smidge of what tastes like relish on it.

I once ordered off a set menu in an italian that didn't have a vegetarian option for the starter. Meat options were sort of like a mini mixed tapas type but for one person, plate of different meats, dips, traditional Italian sides and other dishes. I asked for similar but without meats and got...

A plate of cold, slimy veg. Ugh. The meat options contained olives, mushroom pate, hummus and salsa and different breads, I suppose it is taken literally, the word 'vegetarian' sometimes, people think 'eats only vegetables' ?!

DS2 once ordered a banana and toffee yogurt at Manchester airport.
He got a toffee yogurt with a banana on the side.

The landlord in our local is not a bad cook, but he thinks putting a squiggle of balsamic vinegar on every dish makes it fancy. So everything from curry and rice to a Sunday roast comes with it, often spoiling parts of it. He also doesn't put a £ sign next to the poorly formatted prices in the menu, so you have -
Soup of the day 3.50
Bruschetta 4
Pie and chips 8.5
Fish and chips 9.0

when I lived overseas there was a fake British pub. One item on the menu was fish and chips. Chips/french fries were incredibly unusual and hard to get where we were, and this was amazing. Fortunately we weren't the first ones to order it. Friends went in.

Cold sardines from a tin on a plate with crisps!

Back in the early 90s we went on a walking trip to Iceland - one of those escorted group trips. We camped but there was a support team that made the evening meal while we pitched our tents. Very welcome after a hard day's walking across lava in horizontal sleet.

It was A FABULOUS trip, and we enjoyed our salmon and lamb with various sauces along with a slightly limited selection vegetables and salad that had been grown using geothermic heat.

The vegetarians in our party were not so lucky.

In place of our salmon steak or lamb chops, they were given:

1. A bowl of tinned sweetcorn
2. A cold hard boiled egg
3. A bowl of frozen peas
4. Three tomatoes

Repeated over the three weeks...

(I'm ashamed to say that we laughed...)

Our friends ordered Camembert - it arrived uncooked stone cold and they just cut it into slices and ate it - still makes me laugh

A Domino's pizza that arrived without the sauce. I only realised once I'd bitten into it, I'd been talking and not really looking at the pizza. Phoned and got the manager, who insisted I'd checked that box on my order. Why the f would I do that?! She then said they would've replaced it if I hadn't bitten into it. As if they'd be able to sell it on if I hadn't?! So bizarre and disappointing.

Took the dc to Butlins in Bognor Regis for a long weekend. My spaghetti carbonara had a cream sauce full of bacon rinds, no actual bacon at all. I refused to eat it and got a refund.

A pub on the bridge to Anglesey, steak pie. No lumps of meat just a thick beef gravy.

The worst was a Chinese restaurant. It was packed.
My dh persuaded me to have the set meal for two.
The soup smelled so awful I couldn't eat it, although it tasted OK but it doesn't look good holding your nose while you eat.
The chicken dish was slimy.
I ate the segment of orange we were given at the end of the meal.
My dh ate his but he admitted later it wasn't very nice.

I ordered an ice cream sundae once. It was ALL whipped cream. The entire thing from top to bottom. I spooned it out to find the ice-cream and there was absolutely zero in there. I complained to the waiter who told me "that's how they come". I spoke to a different waiter who agreed! I said they should re-name it "whipped cream in a glass" then, given the lack of ice cream.