To ask for your weird and wonderful online shopping substitutions?

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Inspired by the substitution of sliced water chestnuts for the actual chestnuts I ordered to go with sprouts for Sunday roast - a totally unrelated product save for the name! Kept it in case I do stir fry or something soon

(Waits for the YABU for cooking sprouts!)

I ordered a whole chicken but got dog food.

I once ordered the tiny little packs of mini eggs x 3. It was 3 for a pound. They sent about 3kg! I almost sent them back but then noticed the £12 price match on receipt.

I once had a 'no suitable substitute' for bread

Frozen chips instead of ice cubes! Yes, they will be lovely in my G&T!

Ordered a kids chicken curry, got a bombay bad boy pot noodle. It wasn't the first strange substitution but I can't remember any others.

Complained to the company that their pickers must be taking the piss, received an apology, a £10 voucher and my next delivery free!

Not as outrageous as some but 75 mini sausage rolls as a substitute for an Indian party pack made me 🤔

Not a substitution but I once got sent a kilo of fresh ginger by mistake. A KILO. In one massive piece too.
Rang sainsburys and they said just keep it. Some of it is still in the freezer.

Vanilla scented body wash as a substitute for ice cream. A chicken and chorizo pizza instead of a quorn ready meal. Washing up liquid instead of hand soap. An a4 notepad instead of a packet of sanitary towels. A sweeping brush instead of a scrubbing brush for dishes. All in the same shop although the worst was when the driver had automatically refunded all my veg because it was dripping out the of the carrier bag already

Cheddar cheese - dairylea dunkers

I got grapes instead of milk last week 🤔🤔🤔

Chicken pies instead of vegetarian pies 😕

I ordered a cheese and onion quiche and got sent cheese and onion sandwich filler. I also get cross when there is nothing in the whole shop that can be sent instead of bread or milk.

A packet of salted cashews instead of unroasted peanuts. I couldn't have put those in the curry I was making so I had the cashews as a snack and added chicken to said curry instead.

A family sized loaf of bread that had a use by date of the day my shopping was delivered.

I got no substitution for gherkins once.

I was watching Watchdog a few years ago and some substitutions from a particular supermarket were hilarious. One Liverpool fan got sent a Manchester United birthday cake instead of the Liverpool one ordered.

Another lady ordered nappies for her baby and got cocktail sausages instead.

I ordered sliced turkey for sandwiches in December and they substituted a snowman cake. Honestly... a snowman cake? It looked at me like it was laughing all evening.

It was like this:

Ordered 100g of double gloucester with herbs, from the cheese counter.

Recieved 5 200g packs of the same double gloucester, prepackaged! We were eating it for weeks!

Also in the shop that arrived yesterday I randomly received a giant box of Bran Flakes. Not a substitution, nothing I ordered was anything like Bran Flakes. Sorry to the person whose Bran Flakes are now in my kitchen! I don't even like them :(

Ordered 2 packs of 12 cheap kids ice-creams, received 6 large tubs of Swedish Glacé and posh sorbet. I had to find enough space in the freezer but I really didn't complain.

Got orange juice as a substitute for gazpacho soup once. The delivery driver laughed at that one too!

This thread makes me want to try online shopping

Ordered 4 giant Yorkshire puddings but received 4 bags of 12 Yorkshire puddings. It was a late Saturday evening delivery and I couldn't work out why I was putting 48 Yorkshire puddings in my freezer

@tealandteal You had the same cheese thing as me! Tesco? I wondered at the time if it was an error in their machines where any counter order looks like the max amount - 1kg.

Ordered hot chocolate powder, got 6 tins of cat food.

Not quite the same, but when I lived in the Middle East we used to phone around to the corner shop and the guys would deliver what we needed on their bike.

A lot got lost in translation

Sour cream turned up as shower cream

An order of potato chips turned up as a huge bag of potatoes and a bottle of oil

Ordered a box of staples and received a pencil sharpener and rubber.

I am another one who didn't receive a substitute for bread. Even the delivery driver was laughing at that one.

My husband does the online grocery shop and we use Ocado. There isn’t anything specific, but Ocado usually upscale the sub, which usually ends up being too posh or inconvenient for our pedestrian lives/tastebuds. For instance, He’s making a fish pie, and they might substitute the prawns with poncy prawns soaked in garlic butter and spiced with cayenne or some such bollocks. Anyway, we usually give it back to the driver and pop down to Sainsbury’s.