What's the strangest "substitute" item you've been offered on your home delivery?

rugbymum

A couple of Christmases ago I ordered a 1kg tub of Jacobs biscuits for cheese. I got 5 200g packs of cream crackers! Not even a varitey of biscuits equalling the weight!
Having seen some of the spotty oiks who do the picking in our local Tesco - never again!
No common sense & no clue about what products actually are/do.

jaytin

I ordered stewing steak and beef kidney and they brought me steak and....lamb's liver! Steak and liver pie anyone?

casleigh

I love my Asda substitutes. At Christmas I ordered a small frozen turkey and was substituted a fresh 16lb butterball one instead for the same price as the small. There were only two of us we were still eating turkey into the new year. Also I ordered Asdas own mint thins which they substituted with a huge box of varied mint choccies.

Oddest substitution to date was rice which turned into a fresh baked wholemeal loaf, still went down well with the chilli :rotfl:

liz-paul

A friend of mine ordered a pregnancy test in with her delivery & got.....

Chocolate biscuits! :rotfl:

She was gutted but the driver found the funny side!

geoffholman

Friend ordered tampons and got frozen chicken legs - the mind boggles...

wisdomt

We once order 12 single packs of Felix cat food, about 25p each. Tesco substituted it for 12 x 12-multipack of Felix cat food.

Should have been £3 for 12 packs, but they sent 144 packs (12x12) which came to about £36.

Other than that I think all our substitutions have been pretty sensible.

alimckay

I came across this thread by accident and am so glad I did its now bookmarked. Thanks for the best laugh in ages! :T

brcw2

We'd ordered a packet of suet last week and got... sage and onion dumplings. Admittedly we could have been using the suet for dumplings, but we just use it for puddings, and it's hard to make spotted !!!!!! or jam roly-poly from sage & onion dumplings! And they're really not good with custard!

Sarahsaver

I got prunes in juice instead of dried prunes, which are a totally different thing really, and for some reason the Asda superstore did not have ANY non bio detergent to substitute the fairy which was sold out.
Not had any really weird substitutes though have had a few 'extras' and the driver just said to keep them.
I think the people doing the job do this to break the monotony;)

Clive_Woody

mookiandco wrote: »

I quite like the excitement of my asda online shop...you never know what your going to get!!!

I once braved ASDA online, never again:

Of the 50 items I ordered over half were unavailable or substituted

The best substitution was I ordered two pieces of steak, they sent me an apple pie

With the price match nonsense, with everything ASDA replaced the alternative was from their value range (e.g. whole chicken replaced with 4 value chicken drumsticks...)

Even the delivery driver was embarrased at what a mess they had made of my order.