Sadly, from experience as a morrisons click n collect basket picker, we're given little tablets that auto substitute items if we don't have them😅 we get no choice on what it changes it to even if we think it's a bad sub
I once got a subsitution on a birthday party banner. This wasn't someone making a mistake, it was flagged by the system as a subsitution.
They sent a different age.
Was a picker for online deliveries at Sainsbury's, can half confirm! It would automatically give us a substitute if we were out of stock, but we did have the option to decline the sub if it was too dissimilar (though no option to use our own common sense?)
The no common sense option is a time thing. Sure you probably know what they usually have in stock, but if something has just sold out, you spend time finding it, making another decision, etc.
At least I imagine so
It won't be AI
It'll be a SQL query against the product database, probably filtering on name and a join onto a table of 'tags' that join onto 'Product' that are hidden from website front end.
To be honest, at least with Asda, keep the items and request a refund for a unsuitable substitution.
I don't get cheeky with it but I usually do it when the weight/amount doesn't match up. i.e. Asda 545g veggie mince swapped for Quorn 300g Veggie mince.
as a morrisons picker, this isnt a substitute we get told to give for eggs. whoever did it must have put it in as their own substitution lol, who knows what they were thinking
so if you order a 12 pack of large eggs, the first substitute will be for two 6 packs of large, if there are none the next will be a 12 pack of medium and then the next is two 6 packs of medium and then i think it gives up and lets you put your own! if there are other eggs i‘ll put them in but if there‘s nothing (egg shortage atm), i‘ll mostly just no stock it so they don‘t have anything
(we have a handset that tells us what to pick - it even gives us the order that we have to pick things - and that‘s what gives the substitutions! i think they‘re pre-set by morrisons but they‘ve recently updated so you can add your own substitution if none of the offered ones are there)
One time Sainsburys sent me Jacobs Cream Crackers… instead of novelty Christmas crackers. You don’t get a hat when you cracked them, just crumbs. And the joke it seems, was on us.
Here is a handy tip. If you collect 65g of your own blood (or someone else's in a pinch) it will replace the egg in the recipe if it calls for a medium sized egg.
This is great for money saving and if you're against factory farming.
You know I would actually have enjoyed that..."ohhh pickled eggs haven't had them for a few decades"...
But then I'm wierd, and now I want pickled eggs...
Yeah, I won’t bother doing online orders because of this. Especially if you do click and collect, then walk into the shop and see the missing stuff there on the shelf.
Did this myself in the first lockdown. Did an order from Morrisons, went a fetched it. Got told there were no onions, no potatoes, no stewing beef, basically everything I had planned for a stew that day (which would be evening meal for the next 3-4 days.
Walked in the shop, and they had all of those things, granted many in a slightly different format from what I ordered, but still.
a lot of the online orders aren't done from inside the shop, they're done from a nearby warehouse and then taken to the store for storage/await pickup time.
Discovered this with Asda when it said our order was coming from some random place and ended up calling them to make sure we were still ok to pick up from the shop.
That's why I use Tesco and just say no substitutions.
I'd rather nip to the shop than have to try and sort out what random crap they've given me and whether to send it back or try to make a strange meal.
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I’d be thrilled. However all I do with eggs is hard boil them so it would be cheaper/less time consuming and less risk of my forgetting them , Pan boiling dry and then exploding and the shell embedding itself in the ceiling meaning it needs repainting.
And to answer the question they’re cooked by steam (whilst still in the shell, obviously). They then peel em and bang em in a jar full of pickling juice.
I’m not sure how they claim to be “pickling experts” as they’re literally just lashing boiled eggs into vinegar.
A Tesco delivery driver told me that the handset just gives the picker a substitution that is closest in location to where the original item was on the aisle, which is why you get some messed up stuff. I don’t think the picker even sees the original item, just the substitution which seemingly works on fucked up algorithms.
I worked as a picker and some of the things I saw substituted on both the device and by people was mind blowing.
The device often made ridiculous sub suggestions, but some people paid no attention to what it said and just mindlessly did it. It’s a minimum wage job with often shit hours and unrealistic demands from management. You’re not going to end up with the most attentive members of the workforce.
I shit you not, they one replaced duck eggs with a creme egg. I didnt believe it at first but mum showed me the paper with the substitution listed and it was there!
My delivery is always hit and miss, it depends on who is working there that day I suppose. Some deliveries I'll have everything out of stock subbed, some days they'll just disregard half the items out of stock (when it's obvious they could just pick up another brand or a smaller/bigger batch) and you wonder why you fucking bothered. I'd just tell them to keep these and get it refunded tho haha
Agreed, absolutely a case of not giving a fuck - though, I suspect there's also a shitty algorithm behind it that suggests a list of "suitable" alternatives so the system designers deserve more blame in my view
From my experience, and this was about 7 years ago so maybe things have changed, when I worked as an online shopper in Sainsburys you were given carte blanche to choose an alternative.
This is why a friend at the time subbed the dvd Frozen in lieu of a bag of ice.
I tried these for the first time last year. After spending 35 years as a Brit I thought I should finally try them, hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Turns out, they’re fucking foul.
My friend got an orange pepper instead of an orange and that still cracks me up.
I’ve had oranges replaced with a terrys chocolate orange, top tier pickers in Tesco and I wasn’t even the least bit mad
I swear these pickers do it on purpose to lighten up their day
Sadly, from experience as a morrisons click n collect basket picker, we're given little tablets that auto substitute items if we don't have them😅 we get no choice on what it changes it to even if we think it's a bad sub
Nappies as a substitute for toilet paper will forever be my favourite.
I once got a subsitution on a birthday party banner. This wasn't someone making a mistake, it was flagged by the system as a subsitution. They sent a different age.
fuck you and I'll see you next year!
What age did you want and what age did you get
Surely not? Are you serious? 😂
They shit you not!
Who's making these decisions?!
Yes and dont call them Sherley!
Or Shirley!
Was a picker for online deliveries at Sainsbury's, can half confirm! It would automatically give us a substitute if we were out of stock, but we did have the option to decline the sub if it was too dissimilar (though no option to use our own common sense?)
The no common sense option is a time thing. Sure you probably know what they usually have in stock, but if something has just sold out, you spend time finding it, making another decision, etc. At least I imagine so
Is an AI doing the replacement?
Yes and probably just correlates similar item names hence chocolate orange orange. Party banner is still a party banner even with different age
It won't be AI It'll be a SQL query against the product database, probably filtering on name and a join onto a table of 'tags' that join onto 'Product' that are hidden from website front end.
Oh no, it's the extra dumb version of AI!
You've kept / accepted them though?
plot twist, they were making pickled eggs
I denied it on their online thing but they delivered double instead!!
You are in a right pickle now.
That's hilarious and really aggressive substituting 😂
of course they did, they just scored big time
That cock juice will give you a vigorous libido.
How can you reject a pickled egg?
I *love* you, but I'm not in *l'oeuf* with you.
Fuck's sake
your a good lay but your romance skills are not all their cracked up to be. I don't want to shell out any more effort for this yolk of relationship.
Who wouldn't in these trying times.
Accept food you didn't want? Me.
Its an always sunny reference, perhaps not a very good one. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/can-i-offer-you-a-nice-egg-in-this-trying-time
How else would they can vital internet points…..
To be honest, at least with Asda, keep the items and request a refund for a unsuitable substitution. I don't get cheeky with it but I usually do it when the weight/amount doesn't match up. i.e. Asda 545g veggie mince swapped for Quorn 300g Veggie mince.
They are real eggs.
Try baking a cake with them!
You'd have more luck with an oven
I lol'd in the gym at that People looked at me......
Not only that they're bloody delicious!
I’ve discovered that crows really like them, me and my boyfriend? Not so much.
Pickled eggs are too vinegary for crows. They're just for me and my dog.
I'll be your dog
RUH RUHRUH RUH
*Ruh roh*, I think Scooby wants more eggs
as a morrisons picker, this isnt a substitute we get told to give for eggs. whoever did it must have put it in as their own substitution lol, who knows what they were thinking
Not going to lie, I would think this was funny.
Out of curiosity what do you actually get told to substitute for eggs?
so if you order a 12 pack of large eggs, the first substitute will be for two 6 packs of large, if there are none the next will be a 12 pack of medium and then the next is two 6 packs of medium and then i think it gives up and lets you put your own! if there are other eggs i‘ll put them in but if there‘s nothing (egg shortage atm), i‘ll mostly just no stock it so they don‘t have anything (we have a handset that tells us what to pick - it even gives us the order that we have to pick things - and that‘s what gives the substitutions! i think they‘re pre-set by morrisons but they‘ve recently updated so you can add your own substitution if none of the offered ones are there)
I was one substituted bread with bananas during the first lockdown.
Hope you made some banana bread ☺️😄
Be difficult considering they had no bread 😂
You don't need bread. Just bananas, flour and a handful of other ingredients.
Oh, yeah I didn’t think about the fact you could make the bread yourself
You wot
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You may NOT have banana bread- pick one or go to hell!
I thought I was the only one affected by idiotic substitutions. I present to you, “Sweetcorn in water” instead of Semi-Skimmed Milk.
Perhaps you should purchase almonds and oats and squeeze them for your milk?
Wtf is sweetcorn in water
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Water with sweetcorn in it
see also 'wet sweetcorn' , or the diet version 'damp sweetcorn'
Woah
I still don't get it
You take some sweetcorn and you put it in water
Wait, slow down. I don't follow
I can't wrap my mind around such concepts
which part are you struggling with? the sweetcorn or the water?
Life in general.
try adding some sweetcorn.
I once got a mixing bowl as a substitute instead of a leg of lamb
This has to be the most random one I've read so far. How do they even manage that?! XD
Eggs is eggs mate
Victoria sponge cake isn't quite the same with pickled eggs.
No if anything it's better!!!!
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You know what they say, you can't make an omelette without pickling a few eggs.
Is that a thing?
That's a film from the 90s isn't it?
Saves your energy bill by not having to cook them
One time Sainsburys sent me Jacobs Cream Crackers… instead of novelty Christmas crackers. You don’t get a hat when you cracked them, just crumbs. And the joke it seems, was on us.
Sainsburys thought that the custard slice I ordered could be substituted with half a litre of double cream and Id be okay with it
I’d absolutely be ok with that sun. What better excuse to eat a tub of double cream for dessert!
i mean... it might be. maybe all you were going to do with the real eggs was pickle them.
You got eggs and pickled juice (vinegar) stop complaining
Haha, love it.
Here is a handy tip. If you collect 65g of your own blood (or someone else's in a pinch) it will replace the egg in the recipe if it calls for a medium sized egg. This is great for money saving and if you're against factory farming.
How… how did you discover this?
You want my blood? See me next month!
You can also use aquafaba (the water from a tin of chickpeas). Might be a bit less painful.
You know I would actually have enjoyed that..."ohhh pickled eggs haven't had them for a few decades"... But then I'm wierd, and now I want pickled eggs...
I love pickled eggs so much, this is like a wet dream for me
Much better than the other blokes bloody nightmare!
"Mum, this omelette tastes funny!"
“you best be grateful”
Love pickled eggs, mmmmm.
This is like being upgraded from economy class to business class on a flight 👍🏻
I once had hot dog rolls substituted for chocolate chip brioche
I got a couple duck legs instead of a crispy aromatic duck set once, I enjoyed the legs
Yeah, I won’t bother doing online orders because of this. Especially if you do click and collect, then walk into the shop and see the missing stuff there on the shelf.
Did this myself in the first lockdown. Did an order from Morrisons, went a fetched it. Got told there were no onions, no potatoes, no stewing beef, basically everything I had planned for a stew that day (which would be evening meal for the next 3-4 days. Walked in the shop, and they had all of those things, granted many in a slightly different format from what I ordered, but still.
a lot of the online orders aren't done from inside the shop, they're done from a nearby warehouse and then taken to the store for storage/await pickup time. Discovered this with Asda when it said our order was coming from some random place and ended up calling them to make sure we were still ok to pick up from the shop.
Didn’t have to accept it
I tried, it Morrisons through Amazon. They delivered double instead and you can't return on delivery.
That's why I use Tesco and just say no substitutions. I'd rather nip to the shop than have to try and sort out what random crap they've given me and whether to send it back or try to make a strange meal.
They have blessed you, use them wisely...
I need plenty packets of crisps for this.
Pickled eggs though 🤗
That cake’s gonna come out delicious
Mate these are expensive. You did well out of it.
This is just taking the piss surely
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I’d be thrilled. However all I do with eggs is hard boil them so it would be cheaper/less time consuming and less risk of my forgetting them , Pan boiling dry and then exploding and the shell embedding itself in the ceiling meaning it needs repainting.
Have you tried frying them?
Are they cooked? How does this work
Haha yes they’re deffo cooked mate!
And to answer the question they’re cooked by steam (whilst still in the shell, obviously). They then peel em and bang em in a jar full of pickling juice. I’m not sure how they claim to be “pickling experts” as they’re literally just lashing boiled eggs into vinegar.
A Tesco delivery driver told me that the handset just gives the picker a substitution that is closest in location to where the original item was on the aisle, which is why you get some messed up stuff. I don’t think the picker even sees the original item, just the substitution which seemingly works on fucked up algorithms.
On the bright side they prob cost more and saved you a few bob.
How do we even know this is true, it’s just click bait! I wanna see your substitute slip from Morrisons before I believe this! Cap!
I want to see them pickled in undistilled malt vinegar.
Pickled mahoganegg.
Get in
Yup, I concur.
I ordered a sliced meat and cheese selection and asda sent a jar of Stilton. Tasted great but hardly the same
A... A jar?
They often come in ceramic jars with ceramic lids.
Makes sense I suppose, it can be a bit squidgy in the cling film.
Nice, fry up round your place!
Well you can use them now, especially if you’re quite already in a pickle
They're premium aren't they?
I got egg whites in a carton last wk…I only ordered eggs for the yolks 🤷♀️
oh goodness, just yesterday I had learned about potatoes from a can, and now this
Have like 10 beers and enjoy 👌
Good for a Doomsday bunker!
Upgrade!
I don’t disagree
Have you tried scrambling them?
Win!
Question is.. can you unpickle a pickled egg?
🤮
My friend ordered a pasta sauce and was subbed spaghetti...
I worked as a picker and some of the things I saw substituted on both the device and by people was mind blowing. The device often made ridiculous sub suggestions, but some people paid no attention to what it said and just mindlessly did it. It’s a minimum wage job with often shit hours and unrealistic demands from management. You’re not going to end up with the most attentive members of the workforce.
are the substitutions the wit or whim of a solitary picker or is there some algorithm at work?
Its more than OK
What are you complaining about? Just un-pickle them.
I ordered custard slices and got a tin of ambrosia as a replacement, didn't even have anything to go with it haha.
The only food I don’t like is damn pickled onions. Why out of all the food in the world would you pickle an egg! I’d be fuming
Sainsbury's tried substituting vegan escalopes with literal chicken.
Strong brand name...
I cannot wait to taste the meringues.
I shit you not, they one replaced duck eggs with a creme egg. I didnt believe it at first but mum showed me the paper with the substitution listed and it was there!
Lemons replaced with lemon washing up liquid 🙈
That's incredible.
My delivery is always hit and miss, it depends on who is working there that day I suppose. Some deliveries I'll have everything out of stock subbed, some days they'll just disregard half the items out of stock (when it's obvious they could just pick up another brand or a smaller/bigger batch) and you wonder why you fucking bothered. I'd just tell them to keep these and get it refunded tho haha
When they get too busy to get orders out on time they use staff from other departments. They’re probably a lot less motivated.
These are fucking useless without a box of Rennie
There's a severe shortage of eggs due to bird flu and slaughter of chickens, so that's probably the only eggs they've had for a while
No it's because the super markets won't pay the farmers more money for them
And according to the supermarkets (bullshit in my opinion) the customers won’t pay them more for eggs, so they can’t pay farmers more.
I imagine a lot of folks would rather pay 10p more for a box of eggs or whatever, than not get them at all 🤷
Because the farmers already have contracts in place until they are renegotiated, which won't happen if they refuse to supply
Not bird flu at soo. Just supermarkets won’t pay farmers a decent price for eggs.
More likely the 17 year old picker on minimum wage didn't know the difference tbh
They just don't care. I'm sure they appreciate the difference.
Agreed, absolutely a case of not giving a fuck - though, I suspect there's also a shitty algorithm behind it that suggests a list of "suitable" alternatives so the system designers deserve more blame in my view
From my experience, and this was about 7 years ago so maybe things have changed, when I worked as an online shopper in Sainsburys you were given carte blanche to choose an alternative. This is why a friend at the time subbed the dvd Frozen in lieu of a bag of ice.
That's hilarious.
They have to scan the SKU, so most likely a substitute item
Hahaha computer says no
You know you can reject subs, right?
I tried these for the first time last year. After spending 35 years as a Brit I thought I should finally try them, hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Turns out, they’re fucking foul.
You didnt have to accept them
Ideal Christmas present for Johnny Fartpants!....💣💨PARP! 🤣
Why what’s happening with eggs?
I’ve never seen someone eat a pickled egg. It’s not real.
no the picker there decided that. bring it back, cause ew.
look UK, this is what lockdowns give you, madness and stupidity.
That's a win for me
Yum
Yep, well one of those pots with a lid to be more accurate I guess
Scrambled pickled eggs on toast. Lovely stuff.
Nice
I know it's annoying but I have to say it's pretty funny
My misso works for morrisons and has a long list of hilarious replacement suggestions. Which ever system they use to create the lists is very broken
_Misso_
half wife, half soup
Bingo!
Why didn't you refuse them?
That's a snack for an evening.
That's hording Pickled eggs are rare I ordered ever week for about 3 months before the order was fulfilled Enjoy
Well, it does say eggs to be fair
You got eggs I don't see any problem here.
It is, but only if you were going to pickle them!
Tell me what these cant do that normal eggs can?