Are these the worst supermarket substitutions ever?
Spring onions instead of spring flowers, Monster Munch instead of an ab wheel – how do packers get it so spectacularly wrong?
An ill-judged supermarket substitution can derail major life events. This week, Sheree Scanlon ordered a birthday cake candle for her daughter, in the shape of a five. Tesco was out of fives, so sent two twos and a one instead. However, Scanlon didn’t want to top her child’s unicorn cake with a maths lesson.
When supermarket substitutions miss the mark, there is often some fragment of the right item caught up in the wrong one, as when Kim Petchy ordered lemon juice and Asda sent her a lemon cake, or Theo Jordan wanted guacamole but Tesco delivered avocados.