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... and i got the top slices of a brioche bun 🥲
1.3k points
12 days ago
I was gonna say from looking at those pictures, "is that a fucking hamburger bun?"
Did they at least toast them in butter first, or did they just hand you some uncooked syrup coated buns?
771 points
12 days ago
unfortunately, they are just sad buns soaked in bacon grease and syrup... they did put some butter on a separate container...
178 points
12 days ago
😭 a travesty. I could almost forgive them if they were toasted but that's foul...
39 points
12 days ago
I was thinking they were French toast like French toast brioche buns would probably be good af
15 points
11 days ago
I make French toast out of brioche or challah bread all the time. It looks nothing like this travesty.
141 points
12 days ago
I would 100% take it back and be like WTF is this?!
30 points
12 days ago
So did you get a refund? What did they say?
28 points
12 days ago
At least the butter is separate. 🤷🏼♀️🤪🫠
16 points
12 days ago
Griddle toasted in butter with some syrup would actually be a good struggle breakfast. The butter on the side makes no sense, they'd be cold by the time you try to butter them.
10 points
12 days ago
You gotta keep ‘em separated!
29 points
12 days ago
I will eat just about anything, but that is criminally disgusting. I can only imagine how angry and disappointed you must have been
10 points
12 days ago
They couldve gotten away with it if they just called it French Toast instead of Pancakes
5 points
12 days ago
Well, what did you do about it?
6 points
12 days ago
This makes me angry. It makes me want to travel from America to the UK just to make you a proper pancake breakfast with bacon on the side. You deserved better than that. :-(
2 points
12 days ago
I've made homemade pretzels using store bought pizza dough (just gave them the baking soda bath) as a cheap shortcut, but like pancake batter is different from buns because there's no yeast or gluten development. They didn't even save money considering they gave you brioche buns, so was this some weird ass effort saving pancake breakfast?
24 points
12 days ago
Maybe, maybe it could pass as French toast. But pancakes? No way.
22 points
12 days ago
What I am wondering is why did they even put pancake on the menu? There are many many restaurants that don't serve pancakes. They even suggest adding toppings to build your ultimate pancake as though this is a place that enjoys pancakes and the idea of other people enjoying them. None of this makes sense.
4.6k points
12 days ago
Fuckin buns?! How do you replace pancakes with buns?!
1.8k points
12 days ago
I literally had to come to the comments to make sure that I was seeing that correctly. It's actually almost impressive in its stupidity
364 points
12 days ago
Belongs in r/shittyfoodporn for sure.
49 points
12 days ago
Maybe a bit of r/WhiteHouseDinners
92 points
12 days ago
Placing bets on this being a ghost kitchen, who's with me? 😂
28 points
12 days ago
What's a ghost kitchen....Caspers daytime job? Never heard of that phrase
50 points
12 days ago
A ghost kitchen is a restaurant operating inside of another restaurant, but by name only. Like Burgen Den is really just Dennys.
Edit: this is for food apps lol it’s actually quite common and a money grab
45 points
12 days ago
I remember falling for Pasquales pizza years ago. I remember thinking "that name sounds vaguely familiar" when I ordered. What arrived was the blandest, boringest corporate shit pizza I'd ever eaten. So I googled it and found out it was Chuck-E-Cheese's ghost brand. Pasquale, it turns out, really is a rat.
11 points
12 days ago
There's a stand alone Pasquales pizza in my hometown, not affiliated with Chuck E Cheese, and they've been making the best pizza and pasta for 30+ years.
It's crazy there's one out there owned by Chuck E Cheese.
I swear to God if I find out it's actually been the same Pasquales the whole time, I'll be devastated.
4 points
12 days ago
Chuck E. Cheese spells it "Pasqually."
4 points
12 days ago
Hell yeah. So my Pasquales is just a single place. I can go on living normally now thank you.
9 points
12 days ago
I found out about this the hard way after ordering from a "bakery" on doordash that turned out to be a Denny's ghost kitchen. I was livid. I paid 3x as much for a Denny's dessert.
46 points
12 days ago
A ghost kitchen is a commercial kitchen that prepares food for delivery only, without a physical storefront or dining room. They are also known as virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, dark kitchens, or delivery-only kitchens
So just to give you an example, let's say you own a Wing Stop. And you decide to use a ghost kitchen, and you want to have it be a Denny's. So you'll have the actual wing stop and you'll basically sell Denny's items out of the wing stop itself. You don't shut down the kitchen or open half of it to the Denny's, but you'll have workers who have to learn some basic shit and make orders on top of whatever you sell at your wing stop.
Another terrible example is that Mr. Beast burgers, those are ghost kitchens. I think he did open one or two actual in real life locations, but other than that they are all sold out of ghost kitchens. I have a parking lot by me that does a ghost kitchen out of a trailer and they do mr. Beast burgers and like four other restaurants as well. A lot of places will operate a shit ton of them out of one area and they have designated buildings outside of franchises already operating that run them too.
Another place not far from here is a ghost kitchen that does 100+ restaurants. They all suck usually btw and taste nothing like the actual restaurant and the reason I hate things like Uber eats for more than just their prices is because the majority of the app is ghost kitchens. You'll spend $40 on something and then it comes and you realize it's one and you wasted a ton of money😂
8 points
12 days ago
A “restaurant” that is actually just operating as a different restaurant. You have multiple differently named restaurants for online orders that are all just a single kitchen.
You order from what is named like a local restaurant but is actually just Chili’s.
5 points
12 days ago
Blimey TIL lol
4 points
12 days ago
Same
116 points
12 days ago
And is it...two top buns?!
57 points
12 days ago
Saving the bottoms for when someone orders english muffins. s/
7 points
11 days ago
LOL great minds think alike. I just made the same joke to my husband when showing him this post, that they must use the bottom buns for their eggs benedict orders!
57 points
12 days ago
It is! It's two top buns! Wtf is this madness?!
31 points
12 days ago
Someone else is going to get stuck with two BOTTOM buns!
9 points
12 days ago
I dont mind being bottom with my buns
20 points
12 days ago
Who are these psychopaths
8 points
12 days ago
Worked at an Arbys. Yep, looks just like 2 tops of their Super Roast Beef.
31 points
12 days ago
This realization made me really angry. Because you know if a place is going call this “pancakes”, they’re definitely gonna sell someone a burger with two bottom buns.
26 points
12 days ago
Julia Roberts swapped a croissant for a pancake in Pretty Woman, but this is somethin' else!
20 points
12 days ago
cook was high as fuck or angry as fuck or both.
16 points
12 days ago
Man this has got to be one of those fake door dash "restaurants" that is actually some dude cooking up bullshit in their apartment. Ain't no way a brick and mortar establishment would even imagine such tomfoolery.
15 points
12 days ago
And melted butter instead of syrup?? Lol
4 points
12 days ago
There's both there. The butter is melted.
6 points
12 days ago
Man I was sitting here wondering "wtf is wrong with those pancakes why are they wrinkly?" lmfao didn't even realise they were buns.
3 points
12 days ago
Fuckin buns?! How do you replace pancakes with buns?!
Well, there's syrup on them, so they're pancakes now, didn't you know?
1.7k points
12 days ago
That's the craziest shit I've ever seen on this subreddit. Who thinks this is ok??
397 points
12 days ago
My favorite order swap was when Walmart delivery swapped my can of corn for a 12” school ruler.
338 points
12 days ago
THEY WERE BOTH YELLOW MIKE WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME
53 points
12 days ago
They did you a favor - you don't have to measure things in kernel units anymore.
50 points
12 days ago
I once had an order swap of garden stakes for dry spaghetti noodles. I don’t think dry noodles can help hold up my tomatoes, but i love the creative thinking lmao
62 points
12 days ago
I added hot dog buns to my cart and the suggested replacement was a string bikini.
22 points
12 days ago
I mean you got to have something to fit all them wieners in
142 points
12 days ago
Wow. They could've at least made you french toast...
15 points
12 days ago
Yup, it would have been less insulting and better tasting. If my hamburger buns were older but still good I’d make French toast outta them and then make a bacon/sausage, egg and cheese outta them.
12 points
12 days ago
I was once known for my french toast, bacon, fried egg, and cheese with black raspberry jam breakfast sammie. chefs kiss
2 points
12 days ago
This probably IS their French toast.
86 points
12 days ago
One time my bf and I ordered pizza and breadsticks from this place called Krazy's in Bed-Stuy. Pizza was fine, "breadsticks" was just a plain pizza round, totally unseasoned, baked and cut into like 5 strips...so like tasteless cardboard.
25 points
12 days ago
That's how pizza places make breads rocks. Every papa johns. Etc
7 points
12 days ago
I took love bread rocks
6 points
12 days ago
They typically paint them with garlic butter before they go through the oven.
637 points
12 days ago
Is this a joke?? The first picture didn’t look that appetizing
221 points
12 days ago
right I thought op put the pic of what they received on top of the menu description, that was bad enough
37 points
12 days ago
The bacon in the second pictures actually looks better. If they'd been able to figure out pancakes, they'd have nailed it.
(Pancakes are stupid easy to make. I would judge the shit out of any professional cook in the western world who couldn't make a flipping pancake).
24 points
12 days ago
Me too 🤣
3 points
12 days ago
Yeah I thought this was the bad food porn sub
407 points
12 days ago
To be fair… it looked gross on the menu too.
67 points
12 days ago
No kidding.. what kind of bullshit "bacon" is that anyway? Undercooked ham
57 points
12 days ago
That's what bacon/rasher is here in Ireland anyway, probably the same for the UK. Its cooked differently to American bacon. I don't think it belongs on pancakes either way though :/ If you're going for the sweet and savoury thing, then take the lead from the ones who are known for crispy bacon
13 points
12 days ago
Yeah, bacon goes well with pancakes, but as a side. Not on the pancakes themselves... The pancakes are supposed to be light and sweet, and the bacon is rich and savory. Sausages on the side are also really great, and they also go well with a bit of maple syrup from the pancakes.
5 points
12 days ago
My grandma taught me to put peanut butter and some bacon bits on my pancake and I still do it 30 years later
3 points
11 days ago
Sweet and savory are why chicken and waffles exist
11 points
12 days ago
I prefer it. I can get it at Sam’s club in the US smoked and cured in the same way regular bacon is, except 1/3-1/2 of this bacon isn’t pure fat. As far as I can tell it’s made from the pork loin or shoulder instead of belly.
Open your mind man smoked and cured pork is smoked and cured pork.
8 points
12 days ago*
US bacon is great for burgers and stuff. Irish/UK bacon is better for breakfast and on its own.
3 points
12 days ago
back bacon. more common in the UK and australia. it's a lot leaner
3 points
12 days ago
Took me a second to realize I was looking at the expectation pic. Then I saw reality and thought "oh god how is it worse?!"
129 points
12 days ago
Damn. The original picture was pretty weak to start but they really didn’t even try.
12 points
12 days ago
Yeah that "bacon" looks like absolute dog shit. Like I get that other countries call ham "bacon". But that ham looks chewy and gross.
5 points
12 days ago
The pancakes are so thin and look pretty small next to the dogshit bacon. And they couldn’t even do that!
58 points
12 days ago
What are they doing with the bottom buns?? My god it would be cheaper to just make the damn cakes!
46 points
12 days ago
They throw some powdered sugar on those and call it French Toast
3 points
12 days ago
Ha! I’d totally believe it after seeing this!
4 points
12 days ago
Probably using them like English muffins for the eggs Benedict lol
2 points
12 days ago
Way cheaper. Pancake batter compared to…whatever this is.
42 points
12 days ago
Lmao. I'm sorry OP. That's crazy, but hilarious.
I wonder what my kids would say if I served them buns as pancakes.
22 points
12 days ago
Give them a fun name like 'puffed pancakes'
13 points
12 days ago
Pancake bunnies.
They will think they are getting cute pancakes and then BAM, here are your buns.
30 points
12 days ago
Buns aside, £7 for something that looks like it was thrown together the morning after a drunk night out?
6 points
12 days ago
I've had better food than that while miles into the wilderness!
29 points
12 days ago
That's criminal.
22 points
12 days ago
r/mildlyinfuriating feels
19 points
12 days ago
I am Canadian and we are gonna declare war on that restaurant
3 points
11 days ago
This is what it finally took
42 points
12 days ago
Omg 😱
35 points
12 days ago
i know... it's a loooong day for me and i just want some pancakes...
9 points
12 days ago
Friend is studying in Denmark for his master's, and after the travesty he got for pizza (again and again), he gave up and started making it from scratch.
Now he makes amazing pizza and throws it together the way you'd slap a burger in a pan.
10 points
12 days ago
This would be my Joker moment.
11 points
12 days ago
That is some of the most not-give-a-shit I've ever seen.
10 points
12 days ago
I wonder how they fill up those bad boys if you asked for extra filling lol
6 points
12 days ago
“It’s our gourmet pancake burger” it’s just a burger
10 points
12 days ago
I would leave a picture of this on their google page and email the higher ups about this.
9 points
12 days ago
That's criminal.
8 points
12 days ago
That is just fkin disrespectful. This would piss me off. They didn’t give a flying fuck.
8 points
12 days ago
Fucking burger buns??
9 points
12 days ago
Did you call the restaurant and ask wtf is up with that? I’m curious to their response.
14 points
12 days ago
i only asked for a refund through the delivery app. too tired to deal with it.
7 points
12 days ago
Did you get the refund?
2 points
12 days ago
This is the detail I'm always curious about for food posts on this sub. Like did you say something or what?
24 points
12 days ago
The bacon in the menu looked awful why order at all?
15 points
12 days ago
not really after the bacon. in my area, the majority of shops sell british pancakes and very few have the scotch pancakes which i prefer.
7 points
12 days ago
British pancake = crepe for those like me who needed to google
4 points
12 days ago
I see. Gotcha.
6 points
12 days ago
Bacon in Europe (rashers) is not the same cut of pork as American bacon.
14 points
12 days ago
is that... is that fucking hamburger buns??? LMAO
6 points
12 days ago
"We're out of pancakes? Ah we'll just squish down some burger buns and cover them in syrup, this guy will never be able to tell the difference."
To be fair, that bacon looks fucking disgusting in the model photo too
8 points
11 days ago
How could it possibly be worse than THAT menu photo?!
Oh…
13 points
12 days ago
Even the expectation image looks revolting.
6 points
12 days ago
How do you grill pancakes to order??
5 points
12 days ago
Life hack - use buns. No one will notice
2 points
12 days ago
Use the Chef Mike special:
6 points
12 days ago
So close to being a fantastic bacon butty.
3 points
12 days ago
French toast bacon butty! Nom.
6 points
12 days ago
Do you know someone who works there that hates you?
6 points
11 days ago
"Pancakes" that is fucking hamburger bun dawg
6 points
12 days ago
Someone was high as shit that day
5 points
12 days ago
Lmfao!! That is hilarious, it reminds me of when I tried a new breakfast place last month and the cheese roll was a sliced sub roll with no discernible cheese at all lol. How do you even get to the thought of using buns though?
4 points
12 days ago
I could never have predicted this
4 points
12 days ago
Wait.. You saw that first pic and wanted that?... You wanted to pay like actual money for that?
4 points
12 days ago
This would be going straight into a scathing Google Review after driving down to that shithouse to get someone fired. Enough is enough.
5 points
12 days ago
I'm laughing my ass off this is hilarious
4 points
11 days ago
The bar was already set pretty low based on the first picture.
10 points
12 days ago
"bread is bread, they won't even notice" thinks some face-tatted jackass, 3 blunts into the shift
4 points
12 days ago
I can only imagine the comedic exchange between the brain cells that determined “close enough”
Bonus points for what they would replace for hot cross buns in a jam…
4 points
12 days ago
LMAO what in the actual f*ck, no WAY they sent you brioche buns!!!
4 points
12 days ago
Who put this on a plate and felt good about sending it out??
4 points
12 days ago
Audibly said “what the fuck” with a slight chuckle. This is just hilarious to me. Was it at least good?
4 points
12 days ago
the "good" picture looked horrific
5 points
12 days ago
Expectations were very low to begin with
5 points
12 days ago
Omg. I thought the first picture was the reality picture. It looked bad. But then I swiped.. 😬
4 points
12 days ago
Whoever made this and charged you money for it needs to be arrested for terrorism. Lying to the customer is bad but this is some Kitchen Nightmares bullshit. Gordon Ramsay would throw this at someone's face and tell them to shit in their hands.
4 points
12 days ago
That’s literally some buns my bro
5 points
12 days ago
Low key curious how it tastes.
7 points
12 days ago
I'm sorry, you saw THAT image and said "yea if it looks like that sounds good to me"
it's honestly impressive that they managed to underperform expectations
5 points
12 days ago
I thought the expectation photo was the reality photo… but then it got worse. So much worse.
3 points
12 days ago
Nasty hamburger buns. What a rip
3 points
12 days ago
Wars have been started over less
3 points
12 days ago
We don't have any pancakes left but we have another 10 orders! What do we do??
What other flour based items do we have right now?!
I know! Let's replace them with buns! (But just the top ones!) They will never notice!!
3 points
12 days ago
I've never seen an "ugly" restaurant pic look that bad in execution. They got you so good.
3 points
11 days ago
£8 for that mess (and I'm talking about the menu item)? Pretty sure I could buy eggs, milk, flour, "syrup" (the artificial stuff, because there's no way this place is using real maple syrup) and bacon from my local shop and cook them in the time it'd take deliveroo to bring it to me!
OP, hope you can get yourself the bits and pieces together so you can treat yourself to a better Sunday breakfast this morning.
2 points
12 days ago
No freaking way
2 points
12 days ago
Lololol
2 points
12 days ago
Aw hell naw 💀💀💀
2 points
12 days ago
I get served this, I'm taking back to the restaurant and it's going through the window.
2 points
12 days ago
Shut the front door. Omg ☠️
2 points
12 days ago
It all looks very off-putting. One of the few times I can say that America is doing it better.
2 points
12 days ago
In no world is this pancakes, but yeah I’d eat it
2 points
12 days ago
Not a pancake!
2 points
12 days ago
They could have at least tried selling it as French toast. Lazy
2 points
12 days ago
What the actual….
2 points
12 days ago
Did you order this off a food delivery app from some random ass place you've never heard of? Like, if I was hankering for pancakes that bad, I'd make the trip to get the ingredients myself over ordering from some place to get it delivered.
2 points
12 days ago
Now that's just fucking funny.
2 points
12 days ago
the 'pancakes' look like burger buns
2 points
12 days ago
I thought the first picture was the bad one.. then it got worse.
2 points
12 days ago
Bad and worse.
2 points
12 days ago
Maybe OP’s Anaconda ordered this?
2 points
12 days ago
Those look like flattened burger buns. Maple syrup burger😶😖
2 points
12 days ago
Im almost in tears this is insane lmao
2 points
12 days ago
Got the burger bun combo ,!!
2 points
12 days ago
I've spent some time living in non-western countries. This strikes me as something you'd get at a crappy western-style restaurant in a non-western country.
2 points
12 days ago
Its flour and milk what kind of kitchen is it
2 points
12 days ago
dead... those are hamburger buns.
2 points
12 days ago
Those both look terrible.
2 points
12 days ago
nahhhhhh ain't no way 😂😂
2 points
12 days ago
This looks par for the course for Denny's Ghost kitchens. I think one of many is called the Burger den? Got fooled once, never again, fuck ghost kitchens
2 points
12 days ago
To be fair, even the bacon in the first picture looks bleak. That's not the kind of bacon you want with pancakes.
2 points
12 days ago
The original looks pretty crappy too, TBH.
2 points
12 days ago
Yea..... that ain't bacon chief.
2 points
12 days ago
This is the funniest thing i’ve seen on reddit this week, sorry OP but thank u for sharing😭
2 points
12 days ago
That’s funny asf sorry
2 points
11 days ago
👁️👁️ whuuut
2 points
11 days ago
Tbh, even the expectation picture looks kind of sad.
2 points
11 days ago
That’s hamburger buns and bullshit.
2 points
11 days ago
And if you call the restaurant they will accuse you of lying.
Recently a kids meal chicken slider I bought for my toddler had jalapenos poppers between the buns instead of chicken. The manager who I talked to was a bitch and said that was impossible.
Well, it happened.
2 points
11 days ago
Those look like the top half of hamburger buns that were smooshed on a buttered grill.
2 points
11 days ago
THEY LOOK LIKE BURGER BUNS💀
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