Scam-Wiches On The Menu: 45 Photos That Prove Nothing Hurts As Much As A Food Scam
Any kind of scam out there will leave you feeling angry and defeated. But the scams we are about to introduce will leave you in a pool of remorseful spite. Why you might ask? Well, that’s because it involves food. When you are binging on your favorite delicacies, you will seldom think about whether or not you are getting what you paid for. As most people are always in a rush, they are typically happy once they’ve paid for their food and can be on their way. However, we are advising all of you to always check what you’ve purchased before you drive away from the restaurant or the store. If our advice is not enough, then we’re sure the 45 food scams on our list will convince you otherwise since they will leave you fuming. So, without further ado, let’s delve into some of the tastiest delicacies that lure you into trying them out for a heavy sum of money but end up leaving a regretful aftertaste.
Pretty Little Liars
Whether it is the festive season or any other special occasion, a box of chocolates makes for a perfect gift. They are sweet and classy. Moreover, you get a wide assortment of different flavored chocolates for a diverse palate.
However, when you’d gift a box of chocolates to someone, you obviously want it to be fully filled rather than the one as shown in this image. So, instead of being a box of sweet delight, it actually makes us want to put up a fight with the scammer.
The Jam Scam
Jams have the power to make any food sweeter and more delectable. Hence, when you buy a snack that promises to be a jam-filled treat, you expect it to fulfill its promise and overflow with the gooey sweetness on the inside.
Unfortunately, many sweet delicacies may claim to have a good amount of jam in them, like this one. But once you get your hands on it, the only thing you receive is a jam scam! So, next time you buy anything with jam in it, this is a sign for you to be more aware.
Bigger Bag, Lesser Chips
A bag full of chips might as well be renamed as a bag full of air. It is a scam almost everyone has experienced. Scammers even go to the extent of labeling the packet as having 20% extra chips only for the customer to find out that it’s filled with an additional 20% of air.
If any fraud deserves an award for the most successful scam, it is a bag of chips. People know they are getting scammed paying more for air than the chips themselves. Yet, they still cannot hold back from buying and munching on that “bigger bag.”
Roses Are Filled With Thorns
Roses are known to be the most beautiful of all flowers, but you might have heard many philosophers warn you about these beauties containing thorns. Well, this packet of broccoli flowers or “delicate roses” is the epitome of this statement.
By reading the packet’s name, you might undoubtedly expect soft and smooth broccoli flowers. But instead, it opens up to a huge green stalk filled with thorns. This just makes us want to spike and poke the ones who caused this in the first place!
Scamming In The Name Of Food
Imagine yourself starving and wanting to have a rich and hearty meal. So, you enter a restaurant and see that the menu is highly creative with its dish names. You place your preferred order, but unfortunately, the dish does not live up to its name.
Let this tiny piece of bacon that costs $6 serve as a lesson that if you are hungry, you should never experiment with new foods and certainly not trust a “creative” menu. Are they trying to pull off a funny joke?
The Missing Burritos
Burritos are a go-to food for almost everyone. Whether it is lunch or dinner, are in a hurry, or have all the time in the world, grabbing a burrito is not only a tasty and convenient option but also a filling one for your stomach.
But the statement mentioned above is applicable when you receive an entire burrito, not one that has a blank space in between, giving you only two measly halves of the dish that you can gobble up in just three bites. This is sad!
Expectations Vs. Reality Taco Scam
When we mention tacos, all you can imagine are shells with a good amount of cheese and other delicious fillings. Also, when you open your social media account, you might come across some drool-worthy taco pictures that make you want to grab one immediately.
Well, this picture of tacos with some nachos and cheese for the namesake proves that visuals can be deceiving, and reality is not what you expected it to be. This box of laziness is easy to convert any nacho lover into a nacho hater.
The Distressed Tomato Salad
It is rather funny how this dish goes by the name of “Special Tomato Salad.” Forget about being special; it does not even deserve to be called a salad. There’s nothing but only slices of tomato and some onion on the plate.
The fact that this so-called “Special Tomato Salad” costs around seven dollars is unbelievable and nothing short of a crime. One would rather stay at home and eat raw tomatoes instead of spending a hefty amount for the same dish that’s only concealed by a fancy name.
The Heart-Breaker Ice Cream
It is summer, and you are heading to work under the scorching sun. Suddenly, you come across an ice-cream truck, and it strikes you that now is the perfect moment to indulge in the cool and creamy layers of a Cornetto.
Until then, everything is fine, but once you unpack the Cornetto, the thunder strikes. To your utter surprise, you find that the creamy, chocolaty layer you were waiting to devour is not even there. Instead of having a chill moment, you end up having a meltdown. Sad indeed!
The Misleading Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies are considered comfort food for many people. And no cookie lover would want anyone to mess with their favorite cookies. But it looks like these scammers couldn’t care less! Check out the image below, but prepare yourself.
These cookies are pure evidence that the food scammers out there genuinely have no shame. They put forth a minimal amount of effort into baking them. Worst of all, they didn’t even manage to get the color right. Should we be shocked at this point?
Soft Drink Scam
This soft drink scam is quite prevalent worldwide. You may be dying to quench your thirst with some iced Coca-Cola, but all you get is a few sips of the sweet delight and a whole load of ice. What’s the point?
It is a practice that has been going around for years. Instead of offering you a full cup of the drink for the price, they offer you ice cubes instead. So, the next time you order a soft drink, you might want to check the quantity first.
The Deceiving Jumbo Shrimps
There seems to be no end to the creativity of scammers. Even though they labeled the box as jumbo shrimps, these scammers separated the crustacean into two small pieces and hid the missing portions with a sticker. We would take this straight back!
This box will look like you are making a great save by buying jumbo shrimps at a minimal cost, but the secret will be out once you uncover the sticker. We can’t deny that these scammers have successfully deceived buyers and made them think they were buying extra-large shrimps.
The Hollow Tomato Paste Can
You may have heard a lot about black holes, but now it is time to learn about the tomato paste can hole. When you buy a tomato paste can, you expect it to be full. Well, by full, we mean that the paste should take up the entire space of the container.
But as the evidence is clear from the image, these scammers have tried to play it smart by filling the can halfway on the sides and leaving the middle part hollow. This is sure to leave any buyer outraged.
The Creepy Clown
If watching It did not make you fear clowns, perhaps this creepy clown face covered in chocolate marshmallows will change your mind. By giving the candy a fancy name, these scammers are simply selling a deranged clown-faced sweet that looks inedible.
With this one, we can’t decide who is more absurd – the buyer or the scammer. The weird distorted look of the candy is clearly visible, but despite this, the buyer seems to have gotten a kick out of it. Maybe it tastes way better than how it looks.
The Cheating Hearts
If you are looking to find some connection, these hearts might not be such a good idea. These plain-looking heart candies are only breaking our hearts with the lack of words on them. Was there a glitch in the assembly line?
So, next time you look for bottled-up conversation hearts, you might want to open the box and make sure that these actually come with words of love on them rather than a blank space. We bet this person was so disappointed.
The Empty Wrap
People are always rushing to work. Many find it hard to prepare breakfast and leave their home with an empty stomach. As a result, they rely more on grabbing a breakfast wrap when they are on their way to the office.
On the contrary, you might also grab a breakfast wrap to prepare for a long day at work. But these scammers do not want you to have a good day. The lack of filling in this breakfast wrap is pure evil. These scammers are just inhumane for ruining a person’s first meal of the day.
The Popcorn Con
Are you planning to binge-watch the latest season of Peaky Blinders with a tub full of popcorn? If yes, you might want to check that you are buying the right one because these scammers have taken it way too far. Why? See for yourself.
With an empty popcorn tub layered with a small plastic bag of popcorn, this is the epitome of scamming buyers. They should be really ashamed of themselves for ruining someone’s exciting night. We would rather buy the microwave popcorn and call it a day!
The Beef Jerky Full Of Box
Here we are introducing “beef jerky filled with box” to all the beef jerky fans out there. Yes, you read it right! Seeing this beef jerky, the buyer must have been so excited to have the delicious snack, but alas! It’s just another scam!
Scammers decided to fool the buyer by limiting the arrangement of the beef jerky to the sides of the box. This is a lesson to all the meat-loving fans that next time you buy a jerky box, make sure to take a peek underneath to avoid ending up in a similar scam.
The Scam Of A Sandwich
A sandwich is perhaps the easiest food item to make. Take some slices of bread, add some cheese, ham, and a couple of other fillings, and your sandwich is ready! Regardless of how fast you can prepare it, sometimes you prefer buying one from the store.
Well, this sandwich is another display scam. It boasts a generous amount of cheese and ham in the picture, but once you unwrap the actual product, you’ll be left fuming with only a tiny slice of cheese and ham. How disappointing!
Oreo Ice Cream Devoid Of Oreos
Whether it’s sunny or rainy, or you’re happy or sad, ice cream is always a go-to delicious snack for sweet-toothed people. And when you combine this chilled delicacy with Oreos, it is enough to make you feel like you’re in heaven.
But scammers intend to make it a nightmare instead. How? Look at this ice cream box, for example. Tt clearly states that it has Oreo, but once you unbox it, you’re greeted with only vanilla ice cream devoid of any chocolatey cookies.
The Bad Birthday Surprise
Birthdays are meant to be full of pleasant surprises. With a cake being an essential part of your birthday extravaganza, you’d want to make sure it is perfect. But for scammers, they plan on giving you only had of what you expected.
This Frozen cake may look like it’s layered with creamy and soft fillings, but instead, it is stuffed with styrofoam. This is one way to leave someone sad on their birthday. Also, it proves that these scammers have no shame and only care about their money.
The Disguised Spice Container
Spices are essential items to store in your kitchen cabinet all the time (if you love to cook). When you run out and need to buy a new container, you expect to be filled to the rim with your favorite spice.
But this disguised spice container scammer covered the upper part of the bottle with a sticker to hide the fact that it was half empty. Only when the buyer turned the container upside down did they realize what they were dealing with.
The Scamming Displays
Delis are the holy grail of many foodies. And bagel sandwiches are undoubtedly their comfort food, which are usually loaded with fillings like cream cheese, veggies, and other tasty options that you expect to see in the deli’s display window.
So, when you grab a bagel sandwich expecting it to be as cheesy and fresh as you saw in the display, only to find out that they are stuffed with a single tomato, cucumber, and a little cheese, you will most certainly feel crushed!
The Single Raisin Bagel
If you buy bagels from the store and the logo says “Raisin Bagel,” you might need to take their word seriously and only expect a bagel with a single raisin. Do not expect your bagel to treat you with an abundance of raisins.
These scammers must have taken the singular noun too seriously with this bagel. So, they decided to add just a single raisin to it. We wonder whether they were trying to be funny or just plain evil! What’s even sadder is this is technically no false advertising.
Fish On The Outside, Onions On The Inside
If you think you’ve seen the worst of food scams, we present you with the nastiest one so far. These scammers tried to put up a luxurious advertisement for silvery fish, making buyers think that they were in for a fresh treat.
However, instead of fish, the filling consisted of white onions layered with silverfish rings to pull off a fake advertisement and scam buyers. Unfortunately, it only gets worse from here, and scammers continue to pull off these shameless stunts.
The Doughnut With Two Sprinkles
Dunkin Donuts is a name that makes us perk up when we hear it since it makes us immediately think about tasty doughnuts. But unfortunately, not every branch of the store seems to live up to its name and reputation.
Famous for their colorful and generous amount of sprinkles, you would expect to receive such a treat in every Dunkin Donuts store. But this doughnut in the image above has a mere two sprinkles in it, making us perceive them in a different light.
The Chocolate Cookies Scam
Some cookie makers deserve to be called cookie scammers for how well they deceive their customers. Chocolate cookies are supposed to be sufficiently filled with melted, gooey chocolate, especially if the picture on the package makes us think so!
But instead of letting you indulge in the rich taste of cookies and the luxury of creamy chocolate, these scammers will leave you searching for the more and more of the delicacy because there is only a smudge of chocolate inside each cookie.
A Blueberry Muffin
Just like the raisin bagel, here is another singular noun scam. Fraudsters seem to have found a new technique of disguising people by labeling their packaging as having a blueberry muffin. Perhaps, it is time we take them seriously and not underestimate them.
According to these scammers, a blueberry muffin refers to a muffin with only a single blueberry. So, if you are buying something that is similar, do not expect the muffin to be a delightful treat with an abundance of blueberries.
The Garlic Bread Scam
Garlic bread is such a savory delight. When you buy it in package form, you expect something along the lines of bagel chips with a buttery, garlicky center. But it seems like these scammers only want to steal your happiness. Hence, they offer a sad yellow-looking chip.
This garlic bread does not even deserve to be put on the shelves of any supermarket. They look like small pieces of multiple breadcrumbs rather than large, bagel-like chips of garlic bread. It is just a shameful act on behalf of these scammers.
Half Cheesecake, Full Price
If there’s any food that can make you feel like there is a heaven on earth, it’s cheesecake. The way the delicacy melts in your mouth and leaves you craving more is a feeling that you can’t find in any other dessert.
However, one can’t deny that cheesecakes can be expensive. But given the taste, you feel like it’s worth it. What’s not worth it is paying the full $10 only to receive half of a cheesecake slice. This only happens when scammers are involved. Ridiculous!
The Not-So-Jolly Jolly Ranchers
These scammers decided to fill half the mug with styrofoam instead of Jolly Ranchers, and worst of all, they decorated it with pretty ribbons to make it more tempting for customers. If there is one thing we have learned, food scamming is an art.
They might think that they were being clever with this trick by misleading buyers through prettily adorned mugs, but as a buyer, it is time for you to be wise and check the package properly if you’re thinking about purchasing it.
The Muffin With A Single Choco-Chip
Welcome to yet another singular noun scam! If the label reads chocolate chip muffin, prepare to treat yourself with a muffin consisting of a single chocolate chip and not a muffin filled with many chocolate chips. Honestly, we should know this by now!
These scammers put a tiny piece of chocolate chip in a plain muffin and robbed the buyer of their chocolatey expectations. It seems that they are perhaps trying to teach us lessons about singular and plural nouns all over again.
The Avocado Nigiri Dish Scam
This avocado nigiri dish scam has the potential to make anyone lose their temper. Why is the plate filled with plain avocados, and where is the nigiri? If anything, this dish looks like a plain joke, and we would send this back immediately.
Although the dish is called avocado nigiri, plating nicely cut avocados without any nigiri does not justify the name. It just leaves us upset. Unless they were supposed to be separate dishes, this platter screams carelessness. Ask before you order!
The Sour Candy That Leaves You Feeling Bitter
Pulling off a food scam with other food items might be hurtful, but scamming someone with candy that’s reminiscent of their childhood is pure evil. One has got to be heartless to perform such tomfoolery. Don’t believe us? Well, you know we have photo proof!
With a long package, this sour candy will make you feel that you’re getting long, spindly pieces of candy. But once you unpack the confection, the candy is only half the size of the packet. Thus, this sour candy will undoubtedly leave you with a bitter aftertaste.
Granola With A Single Blueberry
This blueberry granola scam will leave you furious. The manufacturers have clearly mentioned that the granola has blueberries as one of its ingredients, but it seems they have failed to come through. And this time, the blueberry part was plural!
This granola has only a single piece of blueberry despite what it claims to contain. Well, it looks like these guys were busy taking lessons on how to scam buyers instead of making them happy, ultimately leading to their trust issues.
The Big Fat Tomato Burger
You might want some extra slices of cheese or meat in your burger, but extra tomato?! Now that is something one would have seldom imagined. However, by the looks of this burger, it seems that the store had excess tomatoes and wanted to finish off their stock.
Well, if that was not the case, they were probably trying to scam the buyer who perhaps wanted a big fat burger but instead had to satisfy his craving with a juicy slice of tomato and a thin burger instead. How messed up is that!
Chocolate Wafer Sticks Without Chocolate
If you buy chocolate-flavored wafer sticks, you expect them to have a generous amount of chocolate because that’s how it works. The packet of these wafer sticks clearly mentions the presence of chocolate in them and goes to the extent of adding a mouthwatering picture.
But soon after you open the packet, all you can think about is either the manufacturers ran out of chocolate and tried to get away with it, or their primary intention had always been to scam buyers into thinking what they are selling is delicious.
The Foot-O-long Jelly Scam
Foot-O-long – the name says it all. These jellies are supposed to be super long and connected so that the buyer can enjoy the two flavors together as they unwrap the sweet and sticky treat. Instead, they get the complete opposite!
Sadly, that’s not what these scammers have in store for you. Instead of selling the actual long jellies, they decided to roll it up and kill everything that is fun about the candy. You are supposed to chew the two flavors together and not separately.
Cheeseburger With A Drop of Sauce
Burger King is a one-stop shop for many burger lovers, but it looks like not all their branches will treat you with big and cheesy burgers like you expect. This person’s rodeo cheeseburger is pure evidence of this statement.
This person ordered a rodeo cheeseburger with barbecue sauce, hoping to indulge in a saucy and meaty treat. But all their hopes were shattered when the special sauce looked like the person that put it together had to use the few drops that were left in the bottle.
The Disfigured Elsa Cake
Whoever ordered this Elsa-themed cake must have been frozen with fright when they first laid their eyes on it after it was delivered. Instead of a beautiful snow queen-themed cake, this looks like a caricature-themed cake instead. We hope they got their money back!
Perhaps the decorating responsibility was passed on to someone with novice baking skills. These are the only reasons we can think of when trying to justify this deranged cake unless the cake maker was trying to scam. We hope they go out of business soon if that’s the case!
A Fresh Stem Of Broccoli
If you are looking for frozen broccoli florets in the supermarket, it is time for you to be more careful because you may not get what you paid for. Instead of steam-fresh broccoli, these scammers are ready to offer you “stem-fresh broccoli.”
By disguising the packaging, they clearly wanted to receive easy cash, luring buyers into thinking they were purchasing steam-fresh broccoli. But in actuality, they only provided the stems of the broccoli! We would be infuriated!
The Cannoli Scam
This stripped cannoli is a pure disaster. Imagine how the buyer must have felt when they received this inedible-looking cannoli. These scammers have turned this beautiful pastry ugly with a filling that resembles toothpaste. And, it’s not even filled all the way!
Messing with the cannoli was not just a bad idea. It is a pure disrespect to this Italian delicacy. Hence, it is high time to stand up to these scammers and let them know that we’ve had enough of their shenanigans.
The Chocolate Balls Scam
This Chocolate ball box looks like a sweet delicacy until you open it. Instead of containing five chocolate balls, the pack comprises just four chocolate balls because the fifth one somehow seemed to have magically disappeared in thin air.
Well, the scammers could at least have mercy on these chocolate balls. But no, such behavior proves that they were planning to trick the buyer and have succeeded in doing it. To stop them, we all have to stand together!
The Extra Sour Cream Scam
When you order sour cream as a side, you expect to receive a small side of it rather than a careless scaled-down splatter of the cream on the sides of your tacos or nachos. But the scammers have other plans but to trick you.
This sad sour cream application should be labeled as ‘stingy sour cream on the side’ because the scammers have clearly made it known that they were either running out of the cream or too stingy to offer it generously.
Free Oreos
When you look at this big box of Oreos, you perhaps cannot hold back your excitement to delve into the box right away. But once you open this deceptive container, all your sweet-tooth hopes will be shattered once again.
What looks like a big box of Oreos opens up into a large box of emptiness and only a few Oreos. Well, if you want to look on the brighter side, you can view these Oreos as a gift you received with your new storage box.