Weirdest supermarket substitutions

[Bloom15]

I am getting an Asda order delivered later today and they advised me of the subs. All fine apart from they have subbed my mulled wine for 24 reduced salt OXO stock cubes. I don't think it will taste quite as nice!

Anyone else has weird subs?!

I ordered a punnet of strawberries, it was replaced with a vape pen!!!

A lemon with lemon shower gel 😁

Fresh raspberries and I got raspberry shampoo

These are crazy!

I ordered red tissue paper (twas a Christmas Eve delivery slot and I needed it for the gift bags) but received Red magazine instead 🤔.

Guess we'll go without the tissue paper then!

A bunch of bananas as a sub for foamy banana
Sweets.

Asda ordered a jar of korma curry sauce got a jar of madras curry sauce no thanks

Most random sub I've ever had - ordered a bottle of lemonade, received a jar of tomato pizza sauce 🤷‍♀️

That has made me smirk, it's just so bonkers. Did you keep it?

Cheddar cheese sauce for cheddar cheese my sandwiches were fucking awful.

That exact same thing happened to me lol

A lettuce substitute for a cucumber. There was already a cucumber on the list.

Do cats even have blankets?lol

My favourite, perhaps urban legend, of supermarket substitution stories is the woman who ordered a box of tampons and they got substituted for party poppers

A few years back I was given a random substitution and when I commented to the delivery driver, he said the funniest one he'd ever had to deliver was a woman had ordered sanitary protection and they'd substituted them for razor blades! Ouch!

We did this with a single sprout one Christmas!

Not my sub but I don't think the poster is around anymore so I hope she won't mind me sharing as it still regularly makes me smile - she'd ordered 'woodland eggs' and received a small wooden owl figure. Iirc she proudly displayed the owl on the kitchen counter.

Who the frig decides that a blanket is a sub for sausages wrapped in bacon

Last Christmas we had ordered a selection of party food. I can’t remember the exact items ordered, but I remember the substitutions alright. It went something like this:

mini quiches- substitute tempura prawns
duck rolls-substitute tempura prawns
mini filled yorkshire puds- substitute tempura prawns
pizza bites-substitute tempura prawns

and so on for about ten different items until…

tempura prawns- not available, no substitute.

Haha!

These are brilliant !

Ordered a birthday cake and candles

Received a small slab of Madeira cake and a pack of tea lights

The delivery driver was mortified and apologised profusely

I would guess that perhaps the shopper did not know that "pigs in blankets" are sausages wrapped in bacon, indeed no idea what they were at all, and and did their best.

@Bloom15 such a good thread, all the responses, so funny.

I was having a laugh about silly subs with the delivery driver who brought my Tesco order. He told me a lady had ordered a pregnancy test and it was subbed for a packet of condoms! 😂 - probably a bit late for those!!

Branded Oxo is so ridiculously expensive that I think you got a win there.

As she was disabled and struggled to shop my sister was a very early adopter of online shopper. I mean the days when your computer and internet were working on elastic bands and paper clips. She'd try to do a month's shopping of basics. Her computer played up in the middle of a shop and when the (in those days much anticipated ) delivery turned up it was two tins of tuna and a pack of kitchen roll.