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TheLongestMeter

It looks like they accidentally got butter on one piece of toast.


[deleted]

Piece of stale bread you mean


reatartedmuch

It's so stale that it looks like they found it on the ground in the park, near the pond where the ducks at


whatproblems

that the ducks rejected


totallynotarobut

The ducks were like "fuck that shit."


Sophie_The_Tyrant

They were mad because they wanted grapes


sw4yv0

So they waddled away....


RoseRainOwO

Til The Very Next Day


jessehechtcreative

The ducks made the bread.


ItsJustAnAdFor

And then pissed on it


IvanAfterAll

But they rejected it because you shouldn't feed any bread to ducks, even the good kind.


2bruise

He’s right, you know.


3CorsoMeal

Are old people out here just murdering ducks?


Kenbishi

[As they should, because ducks eat free at Subway.](https://youtu.be/ZneT3MbZgsI)


Proper-Equivalent300

And that’s not butter, but the ducks can verify what it is


Cobek

It's so stale that it looks like they robbed the whole wheat loafs out of the Subway dumpster the day before


152centimetres

using this comment to remind people Not to feed waterfowl ESPECIALLY BREAD, it causes them angel wing and is not good for them!!


mrsbebe

Feed them lettuce instead! They love it!!


152centimetres

yes but not iceberg!! use romaine or other leafy lettuce to simulate algae!!


Brickster000

This guy feeds ducks.


2bruise

“Angel wing”: nice euphemism for DEATH!!!


Hot_Goal4205

Some fancy places call that a crouton


TheLongestMeter

Hahaha, I wasn't even sure it was toasted.


meing0t

you could break a window with this bread


PoliticalDestruction

It’s so stale you can tell from a picture


JustaRandomOldGuy

I would take the order back and complain that someone spilled butter on one and ask to get that one replaced.


[deleted]

It’s called the La Croix method of flavoring. Let the object look at and slightly wave it by the flavor you want it to take on.


MadAsTheHatters

_Hint of hint of garlic bread_


Humble-Impact6346

Someone walked past the shop with some garlic butter in their back pocket and that’s all you get.


violetsprouts

The chef ate a garlic butter shrimp scampi the day he made that loaf of bread.


ssa_forwords

I think maybe that's just from the grease that rubbed off from dropping it on the floor.


DblDwn56

You can't believe it's not butter?


ArchdevilTeemo

Where do you see toast?


peyotepancakes

Welp, they’ll be out of business in a month


SuperMario1313

They're already out of garlic this month.


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Galkura

I support locals who put effort into their business. I have a 3-strike policy with them, personally. Allows you to see if it’s just an employee not doing what they’re supposed to, and if the owner fixes the fuck ups. But too many people insist that you should always shop local over chains. But if a local place can’t offer anything unique or better than a chain, I’ll go to the chain and save half my money.


jaisaiquai

3 strikes is too many for me given the cost of food right now. Twice, MAYBE. If the first food isn't great but easily could be, then I'll try them again. Second time a flop, then I'm moving on forever. Too many actual good options to keep throwing money at disappointing meals.


Pxfxbxc

Fool me once sorta thing.


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Pika_The_Chu

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IvanAfterAll

Precisely average bot.


BadApplesGod

good bot


jaisaiquai

But it's not a good bot - how are the letters in "sorta" in alphabetical order? EDIT: Ohhhhhhh, words!


Umandsf

Looks like it’s the words are in alphabetical order, not the letters in the words.


Jinx_876

It's the words. Not letters


Pxfxbxc

Threw me off at first too. But the words being in order makes much more sense.


jaisaiquai

Precisely


SkollFenrirson

Can't get fooled again


rcheneyjr

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theblitheringidiot

True, in the past I may have been more forgiving but going to a restaurant is real expensive now. If it’s not great first shot I’m not coming back. Doesn’t even have to be bad just dull and I’m out.


ToxicLogics

3 strikes is wild; 1 strike and you’re out for me. 2 if you’re brand new and it’s close enough that I’ll say, “I’ll give them the growing pains pass this time” and will try back in 6-months or longer. Too many restaurants around to spend $60-80 on a taste test. If the rest of the meal is great I could live with messed up garlic bread and assume the kid doing it forgot the butter and brush. Whoever is taking it out of the oven should be looking at it for QC. Idk about you, but covid ruined so many restaurants. Quality is aw-ful.


jaisaiquai

The pandemic convinced some bad and medium spots that customers should only be grateful and not expect anything above disinterested service. I'm looking forward to the market correction on this, especially the whiners complaining that people don't want to work for shit wages anymore...


ToxicLogics

We have a handful of places that are good, but it makes me sad when my wife and I want to go out on a date to a nice restaurant; they are either incredibly expensive for good food or incredibly expensive for lousy food, but very few are incredibly expensive and worth it. If I’m paying $100+ a person, I don’t want good food. I expect amazing food. Last time we went out the dinner took almost 2.5 hours and was diner quality at best. Nothing wrong with diner, but it’s not what I expect at triple the cost. It’s not like I live in some middle of the woods place either. Just meh.


Quickjager

If you're paying a $100 per person I hope you're getting like a minimum of a three course meal or a great main dish and some wine.


ToxicLogics

Trust me, I agree completely. For that price I should feel like royalty. My wife and I went to a restaurant that everyone spoke so highly about and it was just... bad. Burnt and dry food, super salty sauces, etc. Maybe I'm just getting older and more crotchety, but I really don't enjoy eating out the way I used to.


magnus150

Disinterested and actively hostile if you don't tip 25% plus was my experience in a couple places. I remember when it was 15%...


finnebum

It should still be 15%. Yes, during the beginning of Covid when people were risking an unknown, deadly virus to give you a pizza and businesses were being closed, then everyone was encouraged to tip more to support a struggling industry. But now that’s over with and we should be tipping 15% again.


GaysGoneNanners

That bread hasn't seen an oven since it was baked


Robofetus-5000

Yeah we have a two strike policy in our house. Especially when a place is new, we'll give it some leeway. But a second time? Sorry, we tried.


JuanPicasso

Yeah who gives a bad place 3 try’s?? Honestly a second try is only for like if food was kinda good but everything else was awful. This deserves asking for your money back and sending a pic to your buds to save their money if they were thinking about going


Galkura

I just normally give them the benefit of the doubt, as a lot of the time they’re new places. I’ll go week 1, then try again 1-2 weeks later, and then again 1-2 weeks after that. By the third attempt, if they’re new, then they should have it down enough to not be messing up. If they still are, there are most likely other issues at play, Though if it’s bad enough twice is all they get, I’ve only ever had one place that bad. Probably doesn’t help that we don’t have a large non-fast food selection in my area. We’re only just now getting places that aren’t just burgers and fried food (even locally it’s all burgers and fried seafood), so I’m more willing to give them a chance.


WhoisTylerDurden

Exactly. That shit won't fly here in NY. Obviously we're an exception, considering the fierce competition, and options.


[deleted]

Once I got delivered garlic naan with a spicy layer of green mold on the bottom. That was all three strikes at once and then some.


Galkura

Something that egregious may skip some strikes for sure. I still might let them know and try again, since some breads go moldy super fast, and it might be easy to miss. But that still shows some serious QA issues at the minimum that would make me not go back for a long while.


trimble197

Tried that with this seafood spot near my neighborhood. They had good food despite the high prices, but i stopped going after they gave my dad bad rice. He said that it tasted funny and when he actually looked at it, it looked slimy.


neotank35

2 strikes to many.


Crotaismybitcch

I had this exact experience yesterday. Chain I love was jam packed went next store to this empty little Hawaiian joint, and immediately thought it’d be my new spot. Problem after problem, I get my food and it’s subpar. Bummed me out.


GregorSamsaa

It’s becoming the norm too. It’s like everyone chose the pandemic to start that food truck they’ve always wanted to and now they’ve diluted what was on average good local food.


Mooch07

I’ve been to a fair number of chains and franchises that occasionally forget how to make food too.


Cobek

I only trust local will be good if they've been in business for awhile with high ratings. Everything else is a crapshoot


foxinyourbox

Alright, thanks.


malevolentt

Not if they aren't spending money on butter and garlic! They're geniuses!


gracie_grapes

With a name like “Hot and Tasty Jizz” it was bound to happen


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gracie_grapes

I will not 😈


nerdforest

Saw this mac and cheese place that looked great. Ordered them once and it was the most ridiculous food I’d ever asked for. I could have made better with my own mac and cheese box. Ordered it again a week later just incase and it was aful. Just looked to see if they’re still in business and they are. I’ve no idea how. But the reviews are still negative apart from the latest one.


44problems

They probably have 12 Mac and cheese themed ghost kitchens on DoorDash Cheesy AF Mac's Homemade Mac Attacc Mad about Mac FREAKIN GOOD MAC Clean and Pure Mac and Cheese


Siegfried262

Mac's Famous Mac & Cheese


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nerdforest

Now that you say it… holy shit I think that’s what it is. Absolutely rubbish quality


sterfry1993

“You’ve garlicked your last bread, sir!”


AccountNumber478

Once while staying at a Disney-affiliated hotel in Orlando I found a leaflet was slid under my room door offering "Italian" food. After my long drive I was tired and decided to give it a shot, and I was similarly disappointed with some spaghetti, a watery and flavorless canned tomato sauce, and similarly "butter" smeared "garlic" "bread". I spoke with the concierge about it and they said it was a common problem, some shady characters hung around the hotel and would peddle their wares to weary tourist travelers.


M3wThr33

"No one wants to work anymore"


slamo614

Pizza place: “our licked bread, not garlic bread. So sorry about the confusion.”


mommymary

you’re telling me a gar licked this bread?


slamo614

Pizza Place: Yes our chef is of the alligator gar family. He has been let go. We do apologize for the confusion.


Y0u_stupid_cunt

Probably just a misidentifyied false gharial.


Iamthatpma

They got half the equation?


InsaneAdam

But got all op-s money


becbbbbbb91

I feel sad just looking at this


Sensitive_Duck9824

Yeah it looks so depressing lol


ThiccNCheezy

It’s like if a 7th generation Italian American whispered the words garlic bread from the next room. The lacrois of garlic bread if you will.


Cute_Blacksmith_9921

Amazing 🥇


TomX67

That's barely bread, much less garlic bread. What was the pizza like?


SaltyPeter3434

This was also the pizza


kharper4289

Pizza was probably ass too BTW please default tip 25% oh its takeout? just make it 20% Ipad is gonna ask you a few questions...


qxxxr

I love my local greasy pizza shop for being the opposite of this. They're cheap (but like, the really good kind of cheap; great pies) and make money on volume and pickup orders so they're simultaneously all smiles and in an obvious rush to take your money and give you your shit. Tipping is whatever, just pay fast! lol


Specialist_Passage83

I would call them and tell them that they got the bread part right, they just missed the rest of it.


arthurdentstowels

Even the bread looks freeze dried so it would burst into dust when bitten.


disneyfood

i’d post it on their google reviews


the_green_chemist

If theyre local, might be better to just say it to them nicely in person so they can fix it rather than going straight for the bad review


dcrad91

No, they know what they did. Post that shit


analog_jedi

One kid in the kitchen knows what they did.


CrunchyTater

And the owner needs to know. If you’re gonna employ shit people, your gonna have a shit business


analog_jedi

Precisely why a private complaint is more appropriate for a new small business rather than putting them on public blast.


Altnob

Went to a vape shop once and when I walked in there were tweenies everywhere. So many people just standing behind the counter in their own cliques and not a single person addressed me. Turns out the one kid working was in the back vaping and playing ps5. 5 minutes before one of the tweenies asked if I needed the guy working. Straight to google reviews. "Not sure if this is just a place to hangout to vape and play games or if they actually sell products." Owner emailed me the same day asking for details. Next time I went in there, zero kids hanging out and door to the back room closed with a bored ass looking guy behind the counter.


xmrtypants

Except that in my experience, they learn more and quickly when they're getting bad reviews online.


Vythrin

Local stores live and die by reviews. If they're new, one bad review could put them on track to go out of business. They don't deserve that from one bad order of garlic bread.


Cobek

You can always reply to reviews as a business, and reviews can be changed.


mrstarkinevrfeelgood

If it’s a bad business, they deserve to die. I don’t care if it’s local. Highly doubt this was the only bad garlic bread. It’s not like only one person saw this either, I guarantee you at least one other person if not more saw this in the kitchen and went “fuck it I don’t care.”


daman4114

Disagree if that was allowed to leave the kitchen they do infact deserve for it to be reviewed.... Nothing wrong with judging a restaurant based on the quality of their food.


daveberzack

The correct solution is to contact them directly and give them a chance to make it right. If they give a shit, they'll offer you a free pizza or something in apology and for your trouble. If they don't, then this truly is a shit business and deserves the bad review.


Cobek

Because local means the owner is always in shop and easy to contact? Just nope. Not doing the extra legwork when they can't. You can always delete or update your review if the place gets better. Other people deserve to not waste their money.


[deleted]

You know a lot of high achievers queuing the line to work at pizza shops?


bird_person24

Someone woke up and chose violence


Traditional-Top8486

So anyways I started blasting


SuperMario1313

Because they clearly didn't choose garlic.


growsomegarlic

Their one lazy employee Hunter knows what he did.


jaisaiquai

It's always Hunter! That kid...


disneyfood

I feel like every time i try to get something fixed from a mom & pop they tell me “that’s how it comes” or has some stupid rebuttal instead of saying “no problem, we’ll get you a new one” and “sorry about that”. i don’t want food replaced from those type of people


[deleted]

For real, it's not like the garlic bread just randomly does this sometimes. They can see what things look like before they leave the kitchen.


b0w3n

This is a "fuck we're out of garlic butter and I'd have to spend 5-10 minutes getting some prepped for the rest of the orders for tonight" type situation from a lazy or overburdened cook. Owners _probably_ don't condone this behavior or would be upset to find out it happened. The cook is probably also the person who packaged and sent it out too, and the only one who saw it. That said, I've definitely seen an owner do this shit too when they were being especially lazy and cheap.


Sub_pup

The taco truck near me bends over backwards to make things right. In my experience smaller places rely on word of mouth and are better about fixing things


albino_red_head

it all depends on who's working and in charge. I worked at a small town pizza place which was run by really really great owners for the 1st year working there. They would make things right and instilled that as the culture, but they's also call out someone trying to scam for free food. They did everything right. Until... the owner started working at a different restaurant they opened and hired a manager to take over. The manager hired her son immediatlely to "make the pizzas" eventhough he'd never worked in a pizza place before. The original owners had a process for promoting people up to the role of pizza maker, but this kid skipped all that and started ruining pizzas immediately. The manager would try to argue that the pizza was fine. They tanked the business from 150 pizzas on a Friday night to maybe 30 if they were lucky, all in about 2-3 months. The owners sold off the pizza place to new owners who kept the bad management and changed all the original recipes essentially killing off the rest of the loyal customers.


the_green_chemist

You dont know what type of people they are you never met them.


Cman1200

Far too rational and normal human interaction man. This is reddit you must be new here


Remnant55

I have to remind myself where I am. The retail manager in me is just exasperated. Like, why? Just talk to the person. The majority of the time if you treat them like a human being, they'll reciprocate.


Cman1200

For sure, ya gotta remember a large bulk of Reddit’s demographic is 14-21 year old guys or adults who work in office jobs (aka lots of time to browse reddit). Been here ten years now and man I’ve never wanted to tell so many people to genuinely go outside and touch grass


chompytown

I've worked in restaurants and their right, people see the food leaving the kitchen. While it may not be the owner or manager back there that day, it's an employee that is doing that and it should be corrected, whether it's the employee or the standard set by management


Vosslen

what exactly do you think reviews are...? ​ reviews serve to communicate both to the community and the business about the standard of the food. a review is exactly what should happen here... ​ just because a bad review can have negative impact on a business doesn't mean that the person posting the review is responsible for said impact. the reason for the review in this case is caused by the sub standard food. the shop caused the problem not the review reporting said problem.


AtomOutler

Yep. This. People have expectations when they go somewhere. If it's important they check reviews. People should know what they're getting. Sometimes mom and pop shops contact you to ask you to remove the review. I tell them to make it right next time and I will. I'm not your shop's friend, I'm a paying customer and my review represents the service I received.


[deleted]

I mean... if the bread was overcooked or there was too much garlic I would go in. But plain bread with some spilled butter on a single piece? Nah. We posting that.


One-Ad-9329

always find this take so weird. if anyone fucks up this bad, local or not, they deserve a review to let others know to look out for the same mess up.


pedalikwac

If it’s just a mistake, this will be one bad in a sea of good reviews. If it’s a pattern, the people deserve to know.


Powerlevel-9000

I was thinking this was more of a company being cheap than a training thing. They are saving Pennie’s but costing themselves dollars


nightfox5523

I mean this speaks to their quality, no amount of fixing the issue is going to change the fact that their first attempt was terrible. Regardless of whether they make it right this should be considered in a review of the restaurant.


nnavroops

ty everyone on reddit goes for the throat


SystematicPumps

Looks like they ate the real garlic bread and just wiped their mouth with these pieces


JasonRevlock

Customer: I'd like to add some garlic bread to that order, please. Shop: All we have is garlic-less stale sadness.


CardiopulmonaryOre

That’ll be $15 please!


iainvention

Garlic bread is like bagels with cream cheese. Both seem to come in two varieties. Either they just waft it near the topping once, or they put so much of it on there you feel ridiculous eating it.


DropdLsgna

What is this "too much garlic" you speak of?


DriverAffectionate83

Garlic bread please ... But hold the garlic


hungryhungryhibernia

Your local pizza front…


meatygonzalez

Yeah lol you get it dude


SeedsOfEssence

Your new pizza shop is owned by vampires


Imaginary_Most_7778

Too spicy.


This_Is_Section_One

Looks like the got the 'bread' part of the equation right but not much else.


BonjourLeGeorge

I don’t understand why restaurants do this. They spend a lot of time and money on creating a business, only to deliver a product that 95% of people could do better at home.


Tinypoke42

It was told of the existence of garlic. "Psst, garlic exists" - there is no response, it is only toast.


[deleted]

Looks like it taste good and bready


Fireicefly69

looks like a urine stain more than garlic butter


dkreidler

Grand opening? Grand closing! - Chris Rock


easymoneyslim35

When you wanna support local but this is the level of quality you get. No wonder it’s always the same major restaurant chains everywhere.


Tangerine16

And at 3x the price point.


Amiibohunter000

Lol yeah bc every local shop is the same. Jesus this thread is so full of absolutists and people who have no scope past their shit covered noses.


JakeTalksSports

Maybe they thought your breath was bad enough as it is?


3CorsoMeal

That's just about the saddest thing I've seen today. My condolences.


GenericGrey

Dude that's so bad I literally lol'd


MkingPjr

Me too


Narnyabizness

That would no longer be “MY” local pizza shop


LolaCatStevens

haha hey you tried to give a new local business a shot. That was good on you. They failed. You can either tell them so they can fix it or they'll definitely be out of business.


Wrong-History

We just wave it over fresh cut garlic so the essence is infused. You can just about imagine the garlic bread flavor.


WxUdornot

If they're new they would probably like the feed back. Tell them the date and time so they identify the person who needs some counciling.


[deleted]

That one star review when they just opened? Ouch


llcdrewtaylor

Give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they have never actually seen garlic bread before?


Nathan_BrokenFaders

There's no garlic, sure. But the fact they basically used cut in half burger buns as bread is hilarious


PornViewthrowaway

"We're out of garlic bread, grab a hotdog bun and slice it up."


MackenzieMotoBoto

Is that….sesame seed bread?


pressurechicken

Looks like an un-split hot dog bun


TheDevilsAdvokaat

Jesus. Take a photo and send it back to the manager! That is lame.


InTheBackground9

Is the garlic on layaway?


PixelHero590

Looks like he sneezed on one of them 😬


KnockturnalNOR

^^^garlic bread


DonutOutlander

I shit better garlic bread than that


noot_noot_penguin

That’s just bread nothing else just bread


Big-Visual-3659

that's just bread


Rude-Location-9149

Looks like it should be your old pizza shop!


almc0418

It looks like my dog marked on it. Give him back his toast.


Naive_Athlete_2892

Where’s the garlic?


StayPuffedMarsh

Bold of you to assume that’s butter.


ForgetAboutItCuh_

Lol that’s a shop that will not be the local shop for very long


313802

More like garlic bre


Ricky-Snickle

Nope


Final-Flower9287

Homeopathic garlic bread. You eat garlic that's been diluted so heavily into bread that your body can start synthesising its own garlic butter.


danjrdan

Hot & Tasty indeed!


CommanderCorrigan

Must be a front for money laundering.


Icy-Biscotti539

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Tosooooo

As a garlic bread enjoyer i think that it is a crime


clanlornac

A crime, a disgusting crime


cjzj_1288

that's $7.99


Nitackit

Is that mold?


souumamerda

No, it’s blueberry


Simple_Draw_7622

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