When you don’t have any expectations, you can’t get disappointed. But when there’s an advertisement for a delicious meal shoved right up in your face but you get served a big pile of cheap-looking cooking, you can’t help but get angry.
Nobody expects picture-perfect food at restaurants. However, some of these meals are so incomparable to their ads, Bored Panda just had to show you side-by-side examples. Check them out below, upvote the most egregious cuisine lies, and let us know about the times when a restaurant has made you swear like a souped-up version of Gordon Ramsay.
We’re not talking just about fast food here. Restaurants in seemingly good standing are also known to violate the most basic tenet of human relations ever: don’t mess with someone’s food. (Though, come to think of it, can you really expect anything good from places that have pictures of food on their menus? Kidding! Haha! Just kidding! Please don’t hurt me, Picture Menu Restaurant Mafia.)
#1 Cheese Fries From Buffalo Wild Wings
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#2 This Steak Salad That Looks Nothing Like It's Advertised
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#3 A Texas Sized Disappointment
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As I see it, there are two main problems when it comes to sloppy reality being far from the picture-perfect gourmet meals you expect to receive. And they have a lot to do with our expectations. The problems are all about the actual cooking standards and the way food adverts can raise our expectations too high.
The first issue is very human: sometimes, the people making your food don’t 'five a guck' about what you’ll get served or they mess up and decide to put the meals out anyway. They might be overworked and burned out. Or they might be lazy and inattentive.
The solution here is simple (and incredibly hard at the same time)—the kitchen staff need to find the inner motivation to take pride in their work. Meanwhile, management needs to maintain acceptable standards. If you wouldn’t eat something you make, why would you expect your customer to? It’s better for the food to be late but presentable instead of rushed and disappointing.
#4 My "Cookies And Cream Stuffed French Toast" From Ihop
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#5 I Ordered Bruschetta From My Local Pizza Shop
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#6 Burger King Grill Dog Cheddar And Bacon
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The second problem, however, is directly related to how things are advertised. What you see on the menus are the ‘perfect’ versions of meals that restaurants want you to see. While some restaurants go for amateur snaps, others go all out and hire professional food stylists to turn grub into glamor shots.
Food styling is an art. Pros can end up using a whole array of tools, from tweezers and tape to blowtorches and paint. So when you take so much time and effort to create a work of art, can somebody in the kitchen who is under pressure really deliver something that’s comparable? Sometimes? Yes! Always? Dear Lord, no.
#7 Taco Bell’s Grande Stacker Box
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#8 Part Of A $3.50 School Lunch. Picture On The Menu And What Was Served
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#9 This Is So Outrageous
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#10 Arby's Bacon Beef 'N Cheddar
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#11 Subway Pizza
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#12 The 3 Pieces Of Lettuce Was A Nice Touch I Guess
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#13 Restaurant’s Charcuterie Board As Advertised vs. What I Got
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#14 The Burger I Ordered Tonight
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#15 So I Bought This New Burger From Burger K!ng...
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#16 Jack In The Box Tacos
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#17 When Reality Doesn’t Meet Expectations
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#18 Damn, I Am So Looking Forward To Eating This Delicious Burger With Copious Amounts Of Guacamole, Just As Advertised, And Then- Oh Wait..
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#19 Taco Bell, I Try To Love You, So Why Do You Treat Me This Way??
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#20 The Tempura Green Beans Looked Delicious On The Menu. I Think They Fell A Smidge Short
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#21 Grilled Salmon At The Mall Food Court
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#22 Fungi Toastie From Subway
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#23 Tim Hortons New Fruit Loop Donuts
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#24 Taco Bell Is Getting Rid Of Their Mexican Pizza. It Used To Be A Favorite Of Mine So I Got One For Old Times Sake
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#25 Expectation vs. 2020
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#26 I Know That Fast Food Never Looks Like The Picture, Come On Burger King. This Makes Taco Bell Look Like A Gourmet Restaurant
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#27 I Heard Burger King Was Selling Tacos For $1 So I Went To Try Them
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#28 Sonic Philly Cheesesteak (No Mayo)
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#29 I Know It's Airline Food, But Sweet Baby Jesus United Airlines, Why Would You Let Someone Pay $10 For This?...
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#30 Menu vs. What They Served Me. No, Millennials Didn’t Kill Appleby’s, They Committed Suicide
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#31 The Menu Picture Of The Nachos I Ordered From Room Service vs. The Nachos They Delivered To My Room
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#32 Thanks KFC, Totally What I Expected
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#33 This Is Why You Check Your Food Before You Leave The Restaurant...
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#34 Long John Silvers Rice Bowl
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#35 The Pico De Gallo Burger At Whataburger
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#36 Dreams Were Dashed At The Airport
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#37 Surf N Turf Burger From A Local Food Truck
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#38 Panera Grilled Cheese “Food As It Should Be”
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#39 Applebee’s Nachos
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#40 We Were Expecting Four Mini Quesadillas, But We Got Four Tortilla Chips With Melted Cheese
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#41 Lunch Buffet Disappointment. Salad Pictured On The Menu vs. What I Got
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#42 Picture Of Pizza On Room Service Menu vs. Actual Pizza
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#43 Chili's Menu vs. Chili's Reality
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#44 Pizza Is Not Supposed To Make You Feel Sad Before You Eat It
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#45 Thanks Domino's. I Hate It
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#46 The Saddest Takeaway And Grimmest Mozarella Sticks I’ve Ever Ordered
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#47 Not Quite What I Was Led To Expect
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#48 I've Never Cried Harder In My Life
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#49 Ordered Char Siu Bao From My Local Chinese Takeaway...
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#50 Newark Airport
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#51 Hardee's Omelet Biscuit - Literally The Worst
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#52 O’briens Epic Melt
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#53 Burger King’s Bacon Cheesy Tots
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#54 Ordered This Delicious Cheese Platter...
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#55 The Tim Horton’s Farmer’s Breakfast Wrap...
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#56 Recently I Received The World's Saddest Espresso Martini
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#57 Airplane Food
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#58 Chicken Manchurian With Rice. Second Item On The Menu
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#59 This Coconut Tini vs. The Menu Picture
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#60 Food On The Menu vs. Ordered Food
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#61 Room Service At The Hotel I'm Staying At, I Was So Excited Too
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#62 I Made This About 10 Years Ago. I Think Fast Food Places Should Submit Like 40 Burgers And The Average Is What Is Allowed To Be Shown In Adverts!
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#63 Knotts Berry Farm Is Holding Their “Taste Of Knotts” Event. Carnitas Fries As Pictured On The Website vs. Reality
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#64 Whataburger’s New Pico De Gallo Burger
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#65 Dunkin Donuts "Lucky Shamrock" Donut
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#66 Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Or What I Imagine Prison Food To Look Like
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#67 Damn You KFC
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#68 Traditional Mexican Food In France
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#69 Fast Food Burgers vs. Advertisements
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#70 Mc Donald’s Mcrib
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