88 Times People Didn’t Get Their Money’s Worth After Buying Food


Getting scammed sucks. Especially when it leaves you with a growling stomach. So to give you an idea of what to look out for, we at Bored Panda compiled a list of pictures, depicting the moments when people received not what they thought they had ordered.


These include sad sandwiches, minimum-effort pizzas, missing ingredients, and so much disappointment that you can almost hear Gordon Ramsay cursing "Bloody hell, what a disaster!" Bon appétit


#1 What I Ordered From Panera vs. What I Got


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#2 Pizza Served At My University


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#3 This Is What You Get When You Order "No Lettuce" At Taco Bell


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#4 Paid $9 For This. Speechless


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#5 Orange Chicken Taken Too Literally


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#6 Ordered A Caesar Salad For $15 From One Of The Local Restaurants


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#7 Cheese And Tomato Bagel From My Collage Cafe


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#8 Picture Of The Flatbread Pizza On The Online Menu vs. What Was Delivered. Room Service In An Expensive Chicago Hotel


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#9 Ordered Macaroni And Cheese At The Texas Roadhouse. The Server Said It Was Made From Scratch. It Was Still Cold. She Said, "That's How They Make It Now"


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#10 The Meltdown "Giddy Up Melt" Sandwich. I Cried As I Shoveled It Into My Mouth Anyway


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#11 Ordered Pancakes From McDonald's With Bacon, And This Is What I Got. I'm Not Too Sure What I'm Going To Do With All This Bacon    


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#12 $50 Slow-Roasted Prime Rib


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#13 I Ordered The World-Famous "Cucumber Salad"


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#14 Chicken Sandwich I Ordered From Dairy Queen In A Small Town. Not At All What I Was Expecting


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#15 What My College Deems Acceptable For A $9.50 Pizza


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#16 Ordered Carbonara From A 5-Star Uber Restaurant


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#17 In Connecticut, Breweries Require Food With Drink. This Is Their "Charcuterie Board"


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#18 Legit Laughed Out Loud When I Was Served This "Deconstructed Caesar Salad"


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#19 That's Just Plain Insulting


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#20 Ordered The Brisket Nachos. Got A Pound Of Kraft Singles


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#21 Grilled Cheese From Subway In NYC


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#22 Don’t Ask For Cheese Grits In The North


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#23 $29 Plate Of Brisket


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#24 The Size Of My Sister’s Burger At Applebee’s


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#25 Ordered A Burger With A Bean Patty Substitute. They Substituted The Bun Instead


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#26 Cheese Fries My Sibling Ordered. They Were $5


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#27 The Worst Cheese Fries On Planet Earth


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#28 Ordered A Side Of Fries


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#29 I Ordered Chicken Wings For Dinner And Got A Box Of Only Vegetables And Sauce


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#30 "Chef's Choice" Futomaki: More Like $10 Worth Of Carrot


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#31 Red Robin Has Pizza Now, But When You Customize The Order, It Defaults To No Cheese And No Sauce. I Didn't Notice It Until I Got Home From Curbside Pickup


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#32 The Steak At My Local Restaurant


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#33 Ordered A $12 Salad


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#34 Tim Horton's Breakfast Wrap


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#35 When You Order Cheese Fries On DoorDash


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#36 Ordered Chicken Nuggets In A Hotel In Saudi Arabia


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#37 My Friend Ordered A Pizza And Got Two Different Ones


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#38 Ordered A Plain Cheese Pizza. Got An Old Cheese Pizza With New Cheese Sprinkled On Top And Re-Baked


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#39 When You Order The "Three Meat Skillet" And This Comes Out


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#40 This Pizza We Ordered At A Restaurant In Altoona, Pennsylvania


We were driving from Pittsburgh to Philly and stopped by at Altoona as we were hungry. We went to this one restaurant and the waiter strongly suggested that we try their specialty, the Altoona-style pizza. We assumed it'd be good and was popular for a reason since it was named after the city. Little did we know it was going to be this atrocity.

Apparently, this type of pizza was only served at the Altoona Hotel. But the hotel caught fire some years ago and had to be shut down. The other local restaurants then picked up the mantle and started making the Altoona-style pizza.


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#41 Ordered An Egg McMuffin This Morning. Got To Work And Opened This Monstrosity


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#42 My Wife's Flight Got Delayed For Over 12 Hours, So The Airline Is Supposed To Provide Food For The Passengers. That's What They're Treating Them To


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#43 The Meat To Bread Ratio On This Sub From My Local Deli


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#44 Ordered Crispy Spicy Salmon At A Sushi Restaurant. Got Spicy Salmon On Pringles Chips


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#45 Restaurant Serves This $5.99 Macaroni And Cheese


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#46 What I Ordered vs. What They Sent Me. Beyond Disappointed


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#47 This Was $8 At Starbucks


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#48 $10 Avocado Nigiri At A Sushi Restaurant


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#49 Ordered Steak Tacos From This Smokehouse Joint. The Second Picture Is What I Received


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#50 Ordered Wings For Lunch. Banana For Scale


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#51 I Ordered A Sprinkled Donut. They Took It Very Literally


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#52 Wife Asked For Extra Sour Cream On The Side


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#53 Ordered A Hot Chocolate, And McDonald's Gave Me A McMilk


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#54 I Ordered A Cannoli To Go And Drove Home. Opened The Box To This


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#55 Paid $22 And Waited For An Hour For This "Parmigiana"


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#56 My School’s $7 Take On Avocado Toast


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#57 My Sister Just Got A Job At McDonald's. I Pull Up In The Drive-Through and Order One McChicken. I Get Handed A Super Heavy Bag, Drive Home All Excited And Then See This. No McChicken Either


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#58 $9 Nachos. They Also Come With A Dried Cucumber Slice. I Love NYC


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#59 Asked For A Dish Of Grilled Vegetables For €8 And Received This


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#60 This Pizza Was A Little Greasy


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#61 Ordered A McChicken. Came With No Chicken


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#62 When You Order Chicken Nuggets From McDonald's On Just Eat, And They Send You A Box Of Pickles


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#63 Ordered Extra Onions For Additional $0.50


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#64 This Burger I Paid $10 For At A Football Game


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#65 Wanted To Support A New Local Business, So I Ordered A BLT


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#66 Girlfriend Ordered A Turkey And Cheese Sandwich. Removing The Top Showed Almost No Cheese


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#67 Papa John's Forgot To Put The Garlic And Parmesan On My Garlic Parmesan Knots. So Basically, I Just Got Bread


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#68 This Vegan Pizza A Friend Got For £9 After Waiting For An Hour


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#69 This Cost $10. Never Going There Again


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#70 An Airplane Omelet


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#71 Got A Small Iced Coffee From Tim Hortons In Canada, Then Crossed Into The United States And Placed The Same Order


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#72 Ordered Sushi In Pakistan


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#73 My Order For Fried Mozzarella Sticks Are All Without Mozzarella


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#74 Paid An Extra $2 To Upgrade To These "Cookies And Cream" Pancakes


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#75 "Veggie Taco" Served At A Taco Festival


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#76 Worst Hotdog Ever For €5


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#77 I Paid £5 For This Tomato Salad In London


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#78 This Was $20


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#79 Sad Sandwich From The Fyre Music Festival


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#80 I Ran To Wendy's For A Quick Bite Between Meetings. After A Long Wait, I Got My Order And Drove Back To Work. There, I Discovered That They Had Forgotten To Add The Meat To My Burger


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#81 Ordered Baconator Fries From Wendy’s And Got 6 Cooked Hamburger Patties Instead. Don’t Know What To Do With Myself


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#82 Ordered My Kid A 6-Piece Nugget Meal, This Is What He Got In His Nugget Box


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#83 I’m From England And We Don’t See Taco Bell Very Often. It Was Awful


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#84 I Actually Paid For This Avocado Toast At A Cafe By My Apartment


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#85 Turkish Airlines - Tomato And Cheese Sandwich


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#86 The Vegetarian Option On A Flight To Italy. There’s A Tiny Smear Of Hummus Under That Sad Lettuce Leaf


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#87 Ordered Pepperoni Pizza, Got Pineapple Pizza Instead


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#88 Got Served This In An Actual Italian Restaurant In Rome


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#89 The Amount Of “Avocado Spread” In My Jimmy John’s Sandwich (This Is The Veggie Order)


#90 The Steak At My Local Restaurant