This article was originally published on TastyArea
We've all been there - you buy a promising-looking food item at the store; you get really excited; in fact, you can't wait to dig into your forthcoming meal, but then you open the package only to discover that it looks totally different from what you had imagined, and you cannot contain your disappointment. It seems that people these days are better at advertising food than making it! Scroll through to check out some of the most entertaining culinary disappointments on the web.
Nothing Like A Bag of Cheeto
If there's one thing most people expect to get from a bag of Cheetos, it's a bunch of Cheetos. That isn't, as it turns out, a given in this day and age, though, and if you doubt that you should feast your eyes on this picture of a single (and admittedly monstrous) Cheeto. This huge Cheeto was the sole resident of the Cheetos bag it's resting upon in this picture.
It's hard to even get mad at this given just how weird it is. How did this even happen? It's even, in a way, kind of cool. We wonder what it tastes like.
The Classic Cheese-Less Cheeseburger Trick
Oh, this is bad. This is really bad. We're not even sure we can call this a cheeseburger anymore. It's just a regular burger. In fact, it's not even a regular burger; it's an evil burger designed to lure in unsuspecting victims and disappoint them with a severe lack of cheese. This is the kind of burgers they serve in hell (if they serve burgers in hell, that is.)
Our hearts go out to the person who was unfortunate enough to fall prey to this diabolical burger. We're sorry, you really shouldn't have had to go through this. Nobody should.
This Pizza Has A Bit of Growing to Do
Look, we're not naive. We're no kids, you know. We know that not all pizza slices were created equal, both in size and quality. And yet, there's something about this pizza that is insufferably infuriating. Like, why have the pizza box so large if you're not going to fill it up all the way? Is it just to mock us? To make us grimace at the minuscule size of our pizza?
Seriously, this pizza made us angry. Pizza is just one of those things people shouldn't play with; it's almost a sacred food in Western culture. Shameful stuff right here. Truly shameful.
This Twinkie Isn't Just Sad - It's Forlorn
Look, let's be real for a second - when it comes to Twinkies, you have to admit that the bar is set pretty low. Like, expectations just aren't that high when it comes to all things Twinkie-related; people just don't expect much from a Twinkie, and that's perfectly reasonable. So to have a Twinkie be this disappointing is truly a unique feat. We're not quite sure how they did it, but they did.
Some evil genius did this dastardly deed of not filling the Twinkie with, well, filling, and that was enough to ruin this Twinkie-lover's snack. Who would do such a thing and, more importantly, why?
Buttered Popcorn, Without the Corn
So, we're not sure how this actually happened, but somebody forgot to put in the popcorn kernels inside this bag of buttered popcorn. So technically, this isn't even a bag of buttered popcorn, it's just a bag of butter popcorn sauce (or just a bag of butter, if you will.) This has got to be one of the strangest packaging mistakes we've ever seen. It's just so freaking weird to gaze upon.
It's disappointing too since there's not much you could do with this butter. Sure, you could probably try to fry an egg with it or something, but we get the feeling that that isn't such a good idea.
They Didn't Get the "Lightly Salted" Part
Oh, man. Just looking at this would send most doctors and dieticians into a blind fury. We're not sure why the good people at Delta airlines chose to ignore the "lightly" part of the "lightly salted peanuts", but they did, and the person who ate this probably had to undergo some kind of surgery to get all that salt out of his system. Let's just hope people were wise enough to forego the peanuts altogether.
It's things such as this that prove that you always need to use your judgment when it comes to the food you ingest. Nobody cares about your health more than yourself.
These Watermelons Could Use A Little Water
Seriously, they look dehydrated. They look totally parched. We're not sure what quite happened to these watermelons. perhaps these watermelons were grown in the Sahara desert or some other waterless place, but there's barely any fruit in these bad boys. These may just be the saddest watermelons we've ever laid eyes upon. Thankfully, we probably see anything much like this ever again. Thank god for that.
Also, doesn't this go against modern fruit regulations? Isn't there some kind of law banning these kinds of deceptive fruits from coming into commercial use? If not, there definitely should be. That's just what we think.
Nice Packet of Air
The thing about most ketchup packets is that they tend to come with a healthy serving of, well, ketchup. Not this one. This one is one of those experimental ketchup packets that's less of a condiment and more of a piece of experimental art playing with and subverting the buyer's expectations. Now, while that doesn't sound great for eating-related purposes, you cannot deny that it is an interesting piece of art.
That is, at least, one way of trying to justify the heinous crime that is a ketchup packet without any ketchup. It's so incredibly weird to see these kinds of mistakes.
Someone Really Didn't Want to Overpower the Bread
Now, there's quite a lot to say about the perfect sandwich. You could, for instance, talk about the bread-to-toppings ratio. Now, while it's true that many sandwich makers, enthusiastic as they may be, tend to overpower the bread by adding way too many toppings, at least their heart is in the right place. We cannot, however, say the same for the person who made this thing right here.
Seriously, this guy may have just created the stingiest, most disappointing sandwich ever conjured by a human being. Our hearts go out to whoever had to eat this thing. We cannot even bring ourselves to call this a sandwich.
Nice Carrot
Many things could be said about this carrot. Many, many things, but we're just going to talk about how disappointing it is. Imagine being the one to pull that carrot out of the ground. You start pulling and all you see are its leaves; this gets you thinking: "Wow, look at all those leaves. This carrot must be huge." You keep pulling and pulling, but the carrot doesn't pop out.
You keep pulling, you put your back into it, and, finally, you hear a pop. But all you see is this minuscule carrot attached to an unproportionate amount of leaves. How disappointing.
Whoever Did This Is Diabolical
Okay, there are levels to this one right here. It would be one thing if this were just a chocolate bar filled with a disappointing amount of nuts. That would be disappointing, but understandable; it wouldn't be enough to cause outrage. But, this isn't what's going on with this chocolate bar. No, no. Something much worse is taking place in this case. This chocolate bar was cunningly conceived by a mad genius.
It was deceivingly filled with nuts only in the part of the packaging that showed the chocolate bar, leading any potential buyer to think that the entire chocolate bar had nuts in it.
They Forgot Something
Looks like somebody spilled the beans on this one. Spilled them a bit prematurely, we dare say. We're not quite sure how a package of baked beans in a tin can make it out of the production process without any beans inside it whatsoever, but we guess that's just the type of mistake that tends to happen these days. Maybe it does make sense, after all, given just how many of these are made every day.
Nevertheless, this person ended up with a tin can of watery bean soup, which, if you ask us, is kind of gross. He's in our thoughts and prayers.
An M&M Consisting of Only Shells?
This is so weird that it's actually kind of cool. If we were to find this M&M in a pack, we wouldn't even be mad. We would just be stoked to have found something like this. Something about its odd shape makes us feel all excited and intruiged. Who even knew that M&Ms could be so gosh darn interesting? Not us, that much is for certain.
We wonder how this M&M was even made. Like, what kind of mistake throughout the production process had to occurr for this M&M Frankenstein monster to be created? Guess we'll never know.
When Life Actually Gives You Lemons
You know the old saying: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." The problem is, is that sometimes the lemons life gives you aren't very good. They may barely constitute lemons. That's exactly what's going on in this picture; those are barely even lemons at this point. They're just a big bunch of lemon peels. Truly, life has a sadistic sense of humor if those are the lemons it's giving us.
Nevertheless, the saying holds true: you better make the best out of a bad situation, even if that situation has to do with lemons. That's always the best course of action.
What Is That and Why Is It There?
Ugh. We don't know what that brown thing is (it could be something wholesome such as a raisin or a nut or something like that, but then again, it could be something much more malicious). What we do know is that whatever it is, it shouldn't be in there. There's no reason to have stuff cluttering your bread if you didn't order your bread specifically cluttered or stuffed with that something.
It's a shame really because that loaf of bread seems delicious and appetizing if you just ignore that glaring brown spot. The only problem is, is that the brown spot's impossible to ignore.
Whoever Made This Sub Should Feel Ashamed
Call us naive, but we believe that there is a code among sandwich-makers. Making a sub is something that you do from the heart or don't do at all, meaning that there are certain ethical and culinary standards that sandwiches must be held up to. This sub, if we can even call it that, goes against all of them. Look at this thing, it is totally pathetic. It is unacceptable.
There's barely anything but bread on this thing. How could anybody possibly make this sandwich and look himself in the mirror in the morning? That much is beyond us.
Two Layers for Extra Security
If there's one thing we appreciate in life, it's a secure yogurt. Yup, that's what makes or breaks a yogurt - its structural integrity. That's why we envy the person who received this amazing, double-layered yogurt. One can only hope that the person who uploaded this picture truly appreciated what he had got. A lot of people just don't know the value of a safe, secure yogurt. Isn't that a shame?
Okay, seriously now. We're not quite sure how this happened, but it is quite a harmless mistake. Like, as long as the extra packaging doesn't get in the way of the yogurt, then what's the problem?
We're Not Sure if This Is A Good Thing or A Bad Thing
This isn't how most ice cream cones or Cornetto cones look like. They usually have, well, a cone. This one seems to be missing that, but that just means that there's more ice cream. So basically, this is less of an instance of good food gone bad than it is a case of good food gone weird, possibly for the better. There is an obvious drawback to this design, though.
And that is that you'd have to get your hands dirty in order to enjoy this. Like, really dirty. And nobody likes sticky, ice-cream-riddled hands. There's no arguing with that.
The Definition of Doing the Bare Minimum
Whoever made this pizza made it begrudgingly. That much is for certain. Our guess as to what happened here is that somebody tried to purchase a Hawaiin pizza, but the person who made it definitely had something against pineapple on pizza. Now, no matter what side of the pineapple pizza debate you fall to, one must appreciate this pizza maker's dedication to his ethical code of not having pineapple on pizza.
It's admirable, really, in this age of vice, that somebody dared to stick to his morals. We can appreciate that, even if that does come in the way of a good pizza.
That Broccoli Is So Cute
So when you buy a pack of frozen cauliflower and broccoli, you expect the broccoli to cauliflower ratio to be pretty on point, given that these things are produced on an industrial scale. And yet, that definitely isn't the case with this bowl of frozen vegetables. It took us a second to realize what was going on here, and then it finally dawned upon us: there was barely any broccoli in that bowl.
Furthermore, the only piece of broccoli in there is comically tiny. It's so small that it's almost kind of cute. The person who uploaded this should definitely think about keeping that broccoli as a pet.
The Saddest Hot Dog of All Time
Sorry guys, no glizzy gobbling shall take place here. For, you see, this hot dog is the saddest and smallest hot dog we've ever seen. The funniest thing about this picture (yes, even funnier than that puny hot dog) is the fact that whoever made squirted some mustard over it as if to say: "Yes, this is good. I am perfectly fine with the end product of this hot dog."
Like, seriously, how could anybody consciously look at that tiny little hot dog in that huge bun and decide that what the whole thing was missing was just a little bit of mustard?
Well, It Really Is A Pepperoni (Singlular Noun) Pizza
Okay, so who here's in favor of introducing a new method of ordering a pepperoni pizza? Instead of asking for a "pepperoni pizza", one should say: "A pizza topped with pepperoni" or perhaps "A pizza with some pepperoni sprinkled on top." That way, we'll all be able to prevent these kinds of mistakes. It seems as though the person who made this pizza took the order quite literally and put only one pepperoni on top.
Now, while it may be easy to just go ahead and get angry at him, we could turn the other cheek and thank him for pointing out this glaring fault in our ordering methods.
Nothing Wrong With a Bit of Extra Cheese
So what's not to like about receiving a tiny little bit of extra shredded cheese on your ham? Now we're not quite sure what the story is behind this one because it could be one of two possible things: It could be that this person just ordered a bit of ham and got a few pieces of cheese (which is alright, we guess); but it could also be that this person specifically ordered cheese with the ham.
That would be terrible if that were the case. Imagine paying extra for cheese only to receive this. That's just a slap in the face, isn't it? Yes, it is. It totally is.
The Food to Seed Ratio Is A Little Off Here
Mother nature is crafty. Nature is filled to the brim with tricks, deceptions, and (apparently) disappointment. This avocado is exemplary of all three of those. Just look at that huge seed. It's way bigger than the actual avocado. The worse thing about this avocado is that we can't even blame anybody for it, this is just how it naturally grew. Who are we supposed to take our anger out on?
And if there's one thing that makes us angry, it's disappointing avocados. It's true what they say - you shouldn't get between a man and his avocado. So true.
Nothing Hot in These Pockets
They might as well have called these Hot Pockets "Cold Pockets" given that the only thing inside those pockets is a bunch of cold, content-less air. Yeah, this definitely had to disappoint the poor person who was eating these. Like, it's bad enough that you had to resort to eating Hot Pockets; but to be deceived as so on top of it all? Yeah, that must have been pretty rough.
On the other hand, maybe this was all just a part of God's Plan. After all, this might just be a sign to relinquish Hot Pockets altogether. This could be a good thing.
How Did This Onion Rot in the Middle?
By a show of hands: who here knew this kind of thing was even possible? Sure, it's widely known that the outer layers of onions and garlic and other pieces of layered vegetables tend to rot faster than the inner layers, but to have the inner layers rot before the outer layers? What's even freakier is that it's just the middle part of the onion that's gone bad. Isn't that crazy?
That means that both the outer and the innermost part of the onion are perfectly fine. We're not even sure what one should do in a situation like this - does one throw away the onion or just peel around the middle part?
Losing the Cookie Lottery, Big Time
So not all cookies were born equal. That much is an inarguable truth. Given the absolute necessity of said statement, we advise people to adopt a certain measure of understanding regarding the condition of their cookies - sometimes you get a great cookie, other times you get a decent one. In no circumstances, however, should you get a cookie with a shoelace inside it, which is exactly what you're looking at here.
Seriously, how did that even get there? Someone should check for any recent mysterious disappearances around the area of that cookie. It may have swallowed somebody whole.
The Mysterious Bread Hole
We'll let you in on a thing about us: we definitely aren't picky eaters. That being said, a line has to be drawn somewhere between the edible and the inedible, and everyone has to draw that line for himself or herself. A mystery hole in our bread is definitely where we draw that line. You wouldn't catch us eating this loaf. We wouldn't even do it for world peace.
Now, if you're okay with eating this bread, you should probably think about taking a long, hard look at yourself and really try to figure out what happened to your standards.
The Perfect Avocado Toast. Almost
Ah, yes. The meal that defined a generation. A lot of words have been said about avocado toast; some of them good, some of them bad. Nevertheless, we're pretty sure this isn't what people had in mind when they pictured the infamous toast. What usually comes to mind is a more refined version of this one. A version in which the avocado is neatly sliced on top of the toast and so on.
That isn't, however, what the original poster of this picture got. Look, we're going to be honest - this doesn't look that bad. Sure, it isn't Instagram-worthy, but avocado's avocado, right?
The Chocolate to Wafer Ratio Is Criminal
What makes a Kit-Kat good is that delightful combination of chocolate and wafer. Unfortunately, it seems as though one of those is all but missing in this picture. We're really sorry for the person who had the misfortune of unwrapping this specific Kit-Kat. That's something that could kill any man's spirit. It's just one of those things that could ruin a day. Luckily, this person made the most out of a bad situation.
Instead of sitting here and sulking, this person decided to go ahead and upload his disappointment to the internet for all the world to see. Thanks for the content, random Kit-Kat-loving stranger!
Picture Perfect
It's pretty much a fact of marketing that things tend to look a tiny bit worse (or perhaps worse isn't the correct word, but more 'imperfect' and 'blemished') in reality than they do in advertisements and posters. It makes sense - why would anyone consciously try to show off the poor sides of the product they're selling? This is totally acceptable, up until a certain point when it becomes totally unacceptable.
This product right here has definitely crossed that point and then some. Just look at that spaghetti; it looks more like a terrible swamp soup. You wouldn't be able to catch us eating that.
This Lemon Hasn't Reached Puberty Yet
Don't laugh at him. Is he comically small? Yes, he is, but that's no reason to laugh at this lemon. Look, he's just a bit young, that's all; he's sure to grow a bit once he reaches puberty. There's no way he'll stay like that forever. Imagine going to all the effort of growing a lemon tree only for that tree to grow these kinds of lemons. That's got to be disappointing.
This definitely isn't what the person who thought of the "When life gives you lemons" sentence had in mind when he came up with that timeless phrase. These lemons are way too small for lemonade.
Somebody Used the Forbidden Bread Slicing Technique
We are, of course, talking about the ancient art of slicing bread horizontally. Not many people know about this slicing technique, and that's because the Powers That Be have tried to keep it a secret for the longest time now. This bread-slicing method has been taboo since the very inception of sliced bread, but now it's gaining traction across the world. The times they are a' changin', and the bread is getting sliced horizontally.
Now, we're not trying to say that this horizontally-sliced bread is better than its vertical counterpart, or that it makes any sense to slice bread this way. Just wanted to make sure that's clear.
Whatever You Do, Don't Order G2
We're not quite sure who or why, but some criminal wannabe is trying to pull a fast one on us. It's things such as this that make us understand that we've got to look out for each other, as a community, so that nobody manages to trick us. If this person didn't upload this picture, some unsuspecting victim might've ordered himself an empty bag of peanuts. Truly a travesty.
But he did upload this picture, and the message got through, thank god for that. Let's just hope nobody goes ahead and orders the empty bag of peanuts regardless.
Where's the Rest of That Bread
Looks like whoever made this bread took a little bit of inspiration from those half-empty bags of chips that are blown up with air to make them seem full. Now, we're not going to say that that's an evil thing to do, but we are pretty adamant in our stance that that's certainly not a good thing to do. Who makes bread like this? It's just weird, to be honest.
Then again, the art of breadmaking is a bit mystical in some ways. You can't control everything when you bake stuff. Sometimes you just end up baking a batch of half-empty bread by accident.
Yellow-Less Eggs
Now listen, we're definitely not egg experts. We've never claimed to be ones. And yet, even we can tell that something is up with these eggs. Something incredibly wrong is going on with these eggs. In case you haven't figured it out to yourself, we're going to spell it out for you - these eggs are missing the yellow part. How could this even happen? It's just so... unnatural!
So either the chicken that laid this egg is some weird freak of nature, or there's a subset of yellow-less eggs that somebody somewhere is trying to keep secret. Scary stuff to say the least.
So Basically... Grapes?
So, we're no experts when it comes to fruit salad, but we're pretty sure that a fruit salad that's comprised of solely one fruit is just a fruit (without the "salad" part.) So basically, this fruit salad is just a bunch of grapes. It's not even like somebody went to the trouble of slicing them, as one should do when making a fruit salad. These are just a bunch of regular grapes.
We'll be the first to give credit where it's due and admit that those grapes do look pretty nice. Like, we would totally eat this, it just isn't a fruit salad.
Apparently They're Serving Burgers for Babies Nowadays
No, no, no. We don't like this at all. We don't like this one bit. Who's terrible idea was it to start serving micro-sized burger portions? That patty is basically as big as a single pea; it could barely fill up an ant. That's just not okay. There are certain standards that all burgers must adhere to, and this burger is getting a big F when it comes to the size department.
How could anybody possibly feel okay serving this to a paying customer? It's just so disrespectful. It's almost as if they were trying to disrespect them on purpose. This is truly despicable.
Cookie and Cream
So we've all heard of Cookies and Cream; you know, that famous ice cream flavor that seems to be somewhat of a cult hit. Not everyone loves it, but those who do swear by it. It's through thick and thin for them. And still, even they probably haven't heard of this flavor right here - Cookie (as in a single noun) and Cream. Yeah, even the most die-hard ice cream fanatics had this one fly under their radar.
Now, you may be wondering: isn't this just regular, cream-flavored ice cream? And to that, we say: no, it's totally different - there's also one, singular chocolate chip in there.
There's One Chip in This Chocolate Cookie
Can one even call this a chocolate chip cookie anymore? Like, if there's only one chip, it's just a regular cookie with a singular chocolate chip in it. The chocolate chip part shouldn't take such a huge part of the cookie's identity. Like, at the very least, it can't be a part of the cookie's name. That's just way too much power for a single chocolate chip. That's just our opinion.
Nevertheless, we're pretty sure that this cookie's nothing short of delicious. It looks really good, despite its severe lack of chocolate chips within the actual cookie dough.