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Bristol Post
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Lauren MacDougall

Online shoppers reveal the worst substitutes they've been given by Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's

With demand for certain items high due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, some of the things we order online aren't always available.

Some supermarkets will do their best to provide a substitution, leading to some shoppers sharing the most baffling ones they have been receiving.

Kent Live reports that Asda customer Jade Browne posted a picture of her "eight bags of prawn cracckers" she got instead of the Chinese box.

Posting on Facebook group Reduce Your Supermarket Spend, she said: "What’s the worst substitutes you’ve had?

"Can’t wait to get my eight bags of prawn crackers instead of the Chinese box.

"Me and my husband did have a laugh this morning!!"

Her post on April 30 attracted hundreds of replies from other customers who had experienced similarly ridiculous food swaps.

One replied: "Asda are hilarious for subs.

"I ordered Halloween sweets and got a load of kinder eggs. But I've heard from drivers things like a bunch of Roses instead of chocolate Roses."

Another said: "I ordered a birthday cake and candles and they gave me a birthday cake and substituted the candles for 50 scented tea lights!!"

A third added: "I ordered sunflower oil they sent me an actual sunflower. I wouldn’t have cared if it was vegetable oil."

And a fourth wrote: "Ordered some latex gloves once they sent me condoms instead."

It's not just Asda too - soon both Sainsbury's and Tesco were in the firing line.

One said: "I ordered frozen fish and Sainsbury's replaced with fabric softener."

A second wrote: "I ordered bbq lighter fuel and got a freddo chocolate egg from Tesco."

And a third remembered: "I ordered a vegetarian three course meal from Tesco. They replaced it with a single bag of spinach.

"The driver and I couldn’t stop laughing when we spotted it."

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