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 have given up online shopping.

I once got a tea towel in place of a food product. I spent ages trying to figure it out.

I once had "No substitute available" for my white wine. I was most disappointed.

I have also had a couple of rogue extra items. Once I had a cauliflower, and another time I had a bottle of sparkling apple juice and a pack of tins of cat food. We don't have a cat.

Had custard substituted with meringue once and Quorn products with meat but my all time favourite was years ago before Asda split the groceries from the homeware online. I had a black and white duvet set replaced with blue and yellow curtains.

My delivery driver told me last week he had to deliver an order where someone had substituted mini bottles of wine with toilet blocks...

An a4 notepad instead of a packet of sanitary towels

That made me chuckle there's no way a sensible person went with that one!

Had lots of fun subs.
Strawberry milkshake for skimmed milk.
Floor wipes for baby wipes
Baby food for cat food

But my favourite online shopping mistake was the now infamous "bag of cheese"
We hadn't ordered any cheese but somehow ended up with a carrier bag full of every type of cheese you could think of including dairylea triangles.

We never did work that one out.

I once got honey nut Cheerios instead of normal ones. Fine, except I have a life threatening nut allergy

Oh also my boyfriends mum works in a supermarket and she was not impressed that one of the pickers subsisted a gnome shaped cake with an ACTUAL TWO FOOT GARDEN GNOME.

A medium whole chicken subbed for SEVEN 1kg bags of frozen chicken.. not gonna complain really though.

A common one for Tesco that weve witnessed on a handful of occasions is if you order lemon scented cleaning products and they havent got them..instead of anothet scent theyll just send actual lemons...

Lasagne sheets ordered and substituted with ravioli!!!

I’ve heard someone getting rhubarb and custard sweets as a sub for rhubarb 😂

Sainsburys once substituted a carton of eggs with a carton of mostly smashed eggs. Which my husband accepted because he didn't like to make a fuss. Wtf.

How are these people employed? I was a picker at Tesco just after I left school, and I once got massively bollocked for subbing Walls chocolate ice cream with a different brand of chocolate ice cream, apparently they were too different.

Substituted toothpaste for fish

Ordered a cucumber. Received Lube. Delivery guy was very embarrassed!

Mine was an epic fail. Balloons were substituted for a ball pit! Even the driver pissed himself trying to work the logic out!

Not so much funny but i ordered a ltr of baileys as it was on offer and got sent 2 75cl ones instead which were more than the 1ltr bottle anyway. Double bargain 🙂

I’ve had a no sub for toilet roll once!

Ordered fish stock and got lamb stock!
Ordered a particular size of nappies and they subbed them for 3 sizes up.....

I ordered a cauliflower to make cauliflower cheese and they sent me a lettuce...

not really their fault, they weren't to know what I wanted it for, but, really? Not a single cauliflower in the entire shop??

And I used to order five cases of cans of twelve dog food (two dogs and it was a month's supply). I regularly received five single cans of dog food, which was pretty useless, so I had to pop down to the local shop anyway. And ended up doing my entire shop there in the end.

Ordered chorizo for making Paella and got subbed with wee willie winkies sausages instead...