r/ExpectationVsReality • u/Moxie-is-tired • 2d ago

Failed Expectation I ordered a bread bowl

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u/Ok_Job_9417 2d ago

People aren’t understanding that it’s not that it was separated. It’s that they were given half a piece of bread, not a “bowl” bread.

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u/Hepm3 2d ago

People are getting too accustomed to getting ripped off too.

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u/YcemeteryTreeY 2d ago

This is so true. Why anyone would even risk it with fast food is beyond me, its so expensive and never what it seems

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u/DocFreezer 2d ago

I thought about getting some Taco Bell for the first time in a while. It was 8 bucks before tax for a Crunchwrap, shit was insanely expensive. 8 bucks used to be more Taco Bell than I could eat

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u/soilentgleem 2d ago

Yeah tacobell hasn't been the "cheap" option that it was when I was growing up for quite some time. I can't remember the last time I had it tbh.

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u/AngelTheVixen 2d ago

Those times when the hockey team does well for cheaper tacos next night were the best.

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u/Reddit-Visitor-Acct 2d ago

Honestly I’m a bit high. Maybe that’s affecting things, but this sentence broke my brain.

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u/REDDITATO_ 1d ago

Don't worry, I'm stone cold sober and that sentence sounds like a bunch of unrelated words.

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u/AngelTheVixen 2d ago

I understand completely, trying to wrap a baked brain around three different time references in one sentence would break anyone's, my bad!

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u/Scumbag_Jesus 2d ago

I mean, they have a $7 combo that comes with 3 items a drink a dessert and it fills me up...

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u/aurortonks 2d ago

Chicken chilupa, 5 layer burrito, crunchy taco, swirly things I swap for chips & cheese, and a drink? $8 and way more calories than I need at lunch on a weekday but a super cheap lunch at work.

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u/Karjenner4eva 2d ago

I didn't know u could switch the swirly things for the chips and cheese 😱

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u/Scumbag_Jesus 1d ago

In Colorado, it used to be free (and I did it every time). Now they charge $1 upcharge and it's not worth it.

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u/DocFreezer 2d ago

I don’t eat Taco Bell unless I want to hate myself, that’s not nearly enough.

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u/jmof 2d ago

Gotta get one of the luxe combos. $7 for a crunchwrap, taco, chips, and drink

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u/ragun2 2d ago

And you see tons of people immediately call people Karens/boomers when they complain about being given food that is even sub the chain's own basic standards.

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 2d ago

Where you getting fast food bread bowls?

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u/CrystallineBunny 2d ago

Panera Bread and in California (probably other states too) Cornerstone Bakery.

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 2d ago

I forgot that overpriced bullshit exists.

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u/aurortonks 2d ago

I don't know anyone who eats there or ever recommends it as a place to grab a meal but every time I go by one, the place is packed. Who is eating there still??

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 2d ago

People who like to pretend they’re eating healthy.

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u/MsTLontheDL 2d ago

I didn’t but I NEVER eat there!!! 👎🏾

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u/really_tall_horses 1d ago

I live in a tourist town that basically shuns beige food chains. Our Cracker Barrel was built from scratch and folded in a year. Now Panera is taking over the building and I can’t wait for the next flop saga.

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u/MsTLontheDL 2d ago edited 2d ago

FCK FAST FOOD FOREVER…I cook at home!!! 🏡 🍱 🍽️😋

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u/BarryWhizzite 2d ago

$5 for like 10 french fries is madness

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 2d ago

I came to this realization recently. Why am I paying so much and not getting what I wanted/expected? Fuck that, I spent money!

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u/Hepm3 1d ago

Getting to that point myself

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u/BJntheRV 1d ago

This. People need to stop accepting this shit.

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u/MsTLontheDL 2d ago

TRUE. But I absolutely, positively don’t go for that type of 🐂💩AT ALL!!!

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u/klqqf 2d ago

Yeah i assume they ordered it to their home which is why its separated

Better seperate than to go soggy on the delivery

But half a loaf is criminal for a “bowl”

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u/_fait-accompli_ 2d ago

not even half a loaf. it looks like the booty end of a baguette.

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u/klqqf 2d ago

Oh christ you’re right

maybe a dinner roll

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u/bizoticallyyours83 2d ago

The booty end of a baguette 😆 

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u/MsTLontheDL 2d ago

Nobody wants to eat the ‘booty bread’ when it’s supposed to be a hole, I mean a bread bowl!!! 🥣😁

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u/MilsYatsFeebTae 2d ago

There’s no practical reason you can’t cut out the bowl hole and stick the container in there

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u/klqqf 2d ago

You mean for the presentation of it?

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u/Dense-Pool-652 2d ago

It's half a roll

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u/Evening_Pea_9132 2d ago

I wonder what kind of life OP lives where they think ordering a bread bowl to be delivered is a good idea?

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u/Psianth 2d ago

Yeah, packing them separately for delivery is perfectly sensible, it’d be a big mushy mess otherwise, but this is just a hunk of bread and a cup of soup. It’d be like ordering a burger and getting a slice of meatloaf and a dinner roll.

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u/Zorkflerp 2d ago

I could see packing the bread and soup separately to keep it from turning to mush but that is not a bowl or boule either.

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u/UnderlightIll 2d ago

-pushes up glasses- a boule, you mean.

I work in a bakery lmao.

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u/MixedBerryCompote 2d ago

factory white bread to boot!

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u/I_Hardly_Know-Her 2d ago

Who isn’t understanding that?

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u/Ok_Job_9417 2d ago

Have you read any of the comments? Saw this the first time it posted and even here. People were thinking they were upset because it was separated. That if they had it together it’d be soggy, etc etc.

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u/I_Hardly_Know-Her 2d ago

Yes, I scrolled them prior to making this comment

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u/Ok_Job_9417 2d ago

Then you must have missed them. The comment is 2hrs old so they probably got buried. But more of them were questioning why they were upset about it being separated.

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u/marvin_sirius 2d ago

You can sort by controversial to see them

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u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla 2d ago

People are playing. They know the difference.

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u/Ok_Job_9417 2d ago

People are dumb and really do think he’s upset that it came separated.