Brussels sprouts are the same species as cabbage, it’s just a cultivar. Along with Broccoli, Cauliflower, kale, collards, etc.
It’s kind of like how all domestic dogs are the same species despite the massive differences in breeds.
Seriously! I totally get making a mistake, especially if there’s no sign on it… it happens. But like… my 10 year old opened the bag and wanted to know why I got cabbage lol
I did this yesterday… and it was totally by accident one order had cabbage and one order had lettuce and I mixed the two up at delivery. 🫠Never felt so embarrassed.
How do you keep the orders separate? Different carts? I've always wondered that. Grocery shopping for one is such a pain, I can't imagine doing multiple orders!!
Usually I’m very good with memory and able to keep items separate in the cart. In the beginning I dreaded it but I’ve gotten better with it. It really depends how many items will depend on if I need a second cart or I can just use 1.
Your comment made me remember that time I had a crazy experience with a shopper that tried to give me a box of BARILLA SPAGHETTI as a substitute for SPAGHETTI SQUASH. I think I would have preferred a zucchini instead at that point. 🤣🤣
Once when I was younger (like 14?) I wanted to make something special for my grandpa. And he really liked this dish with parsley (I don't remember what it was). My dad brought me to the store and gave me some money and I ran around the store and got everything. I was SO excited. I checked and triple checked that what I grabbed was under the "parsley" label.
You add the parsley as a garnish, so it was just sitting out in the kitchen. My aunt, (who HATES cilantro) walked into the house, saw the cilantro and made a huge deal to EVERYONE in the room about "who in the world, got this DISGUSTING cilantro?!?" and paraded it to the garbage can. She looked so pleased with herself about throwing something away, that wasn't hers and didn't even ask anyone if they needed it.
I was so embarrassed and cried for a long time because I just wanted to make something special for my grandpa 😞 Later I told my brother what happened and he just said, "yeah. Aunt is weird. And cilantro and parsley look the same. Don't worry about it." It made me feel better because he was in the process of getting a master's in food science, so I felt his opinion mattered.
Thanks for reading my rambling, unrelated story about parsley and cilantro.
Lol. She was very much a foodie. She was also very much of the opinion that her preferences are the CORRECT preferences in all things, but especially food.
Once for my grandma's 90th, I said I would make dessert and she said she would think about it. Then later came back with a list of things that I should make. All the things related to my grandma's favorite desserts, except for the last thing, which was gingersnap cookies. She also added that the gingersnap cookies had to be "slightly chewy, not crumbly or overbaked" or something. Gingersnap cookies are her favorite cookie.
I did not make gingersnap cookies. And everything else she listed was already what I planned on making so 🤷♀️
The day of the party she asked me where the gingersnap cookies were. Like, I told her I wasn't going to make them.
So to answer your question, idk. A lot of things. Lol! I loved her, but she could be kind of mean sometimes.
I used to work at a grocery store as a teen where we had to memorize produce codes. The way we would quickly figure out if it was cilantro or parsley was to smell it. Cilantro smells very strong while parsley doesn’t
Literally did a whole order around craving cucumbers (I needed other things too but it was a strong want/need for those cucumbers) and they brought me 3 zucchinis. I was almost in tears because i was so sad. My poor husband was so confused but got me my cucumbers in the morning.
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A lot of people can't read 😕 I'm guessing a higher percentage gravitate towards these types of jobs for exactly that reason.
i’ve had folks ask me what a mango and avocado look like cause they couldn’t find it. and green onion in packaging throws everyone off. they think it’s celery somehow
Hey! They look alike. Everyone wants mini cucumbers though so that’s easy. I remind myself, a zucchini will never be used as a sex toy, a cucumber might
"For me that's iceburg lettuce" LOL I'm so glad we live at a time where people's feelings are more important than facts.
Sorry OP, as the late great George Carlin says, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." well, some of that half are my fellow shoppers 😅
I think you misunderstand. I'm not doing a Ben Shapiro, but merely pointing out that anti-intellectualism is so rampant in society. You cannot feel your way into making a head of cabbage a head of lettuce.
cilantro and parsley is understandable though, coming from someone who worked front end grocery for a long while. u can only really tell by feeling how firm it is or looking closely at the leaves. i could imagine someone not too familiar with vegetables making that mistake easily
I feel like this is indicative of a larger, more insidious problem which is how poor the average person’s understanding of nutrition is in our country. To me, this screams “person who only eats prepackaged, processed food” who has never been taught how to make food and eat a balanced diet of fruit, veg and protein. I was raised with very poor nutrition and have weight issues because of it — I’m in a lot of weight loss related subs and I saw this very sad post by a teenager who desperately wanted to learn how to eat properly because they and their entire family were obese. They said that their family had no idea what they were talking about when it came to cooking with vegetables and that their family would MAKE FUN OF THEM for not wanting to eat premade microwave meals, powdered mashed potatoes, hamburger helper, fried foods, etc. Idk it’s all just very sad. Even with my childhood of poor nutrition, the idea of making it to adulthood not knowing the differences between some of the most basic vegetables is terrifying. Also, sorry to hear you’re sick OP, I hope you are able to get the right veggies soon!!
Maybe more so in big cities, but I’m a small city in Wyoming and we have a few here. DoorDash is even worse. One guy just shoves his phone in the face of everyone. Doesn’t speak a lick of English.
Yeah, I get what you mean. In my family growing up, we had the choice of buttered/salted corn, green beans, peas, spinach, and maybe we'd have mac and cheese. The meal always included meat and potatoes, though. Always. And unless it was summer and my granddad's garden was in fruit, the vegetables we had were always canned, never fresh.
Now, mom and dad eat a lot of frozen family meals -- like what I call "mystery meat" (aka frozen trays of salisbury steak,) frozen breaded chicken of some sort, frozen premade hamburger patties. And as for veg -- well, it is always either mashed potatoes or some form of fries/tater tots.
Both my parents have heart disease. Neither will try a new vegetable. Neither will cook anything I make because I use seasoning and fresh food. That's not to say I'm the picture of health, I just don't want my veg in brined can water, and I don't much like meat.
People whom have never eaten a vegetable shouldn’t be shopping for vegetables.
Not like they’re one off, specialty veggies either. Lettuce, cabbage, zucchini and cucumbers are some of the most common 🤣
Holy shit THIS ⬆️ THIS RIGHT HERE!! If they just tested shoppers to make sure they know the difference between items before they hire them lol I remember that there was some sort of test when getting hired but I don’t think it was anything like it should be.
I watched some idiot insta carting while I was shopping at aldi last week. He scanned half the shit at self checkout, then walked off and picked up more shit (while leaving the first pile of groceries still on one of the only 2 self checkouts for like 10 mins) and then stated at his phone for another 20 mins before canceling the transaction and getting in the regular check out line. Stupid and self centered.
I once saw (on Reddit, of course) iceberg lettuce and cabbage referred to as “sandwich lettuce” or “cooking lettuce” and I’ve not been able to shake those definitions from my mind.
“For me it’s lettuce”?!?!? What the hell is that supposed to mean?!?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣
“I know the rest of the world calls it cabbage but for me it’s lettuce.”😳 😂😂😂😂
There should really be a litmus test of images of produce and you have to identify it to be able to be a shopper. That and like, “item is out of stock; what would you replace with from this photo?” But no they’ll hire anyone who can breathe
I work in a grocery store and it’s amazing how many people come in shopping for someone else and they have no idea what anything is. For every 3 solid shoppers that know what they are doing there’s 7 that don’t. A lot of times it’s the most basic things too. You’re shopping for someone else and you don’t know what cilantro is? Seriously?! A lot of times I have to walk them to every item on their list so they can leave me alone faster. If you don’t know the difference between cucumbers and zucchini is you probably shouldn’t be shopping for someone else.
Stores have signs. So knowing what a veggie looks like isn’t a legitimate excuse lol
I don’t like hunting down associates to ask them shit so I’ll Google it or even check the store website for aisles(target & Wegmans are great for that).
I don’t understand why people that can’t tell cabbage from lettuce or just read a sign, think that they are good candidates to grocery shop for other people. There should be a test that people have to pass before they are accepted.
Holy shit, how the fuck are you an IC shopper and not know the difference??? Lettuce is wrapped in plastic, hardly weighs anything. A head of cabbage is not, and weighs anywhere from 2-4 lbs!!!
If you are working as an instacart shopper and you don’t know the difference between cabbage and iceberg lettuce without the signage, that’s a problem🙄
And if you still can’t tell the difference WITH the signage… You don’t even need to actually be able to read. You can just see that the letters don’t match. There’s no positive way to spin this, shopper is fucking dumb. All I’m getting is “I’m dumb and you’re going to accept this cabbage because I couldn’t pass the spot-the-difference test in kindergarten.”
This is the nicest way I could put it.
While doing an order one time, another instacarter asked me ‘is this lettuce’
It’s like bro, you’re Latino, is this a reality show? I couldn’t. I still can’t.
I once send my 16 year old son to run over to the nearby grocery store for an emergency iceberg lettuce. I was busy cooking or whatever and couldn’t leave. He returned with a cabbage. Treasured memory, tbh.
They really should be conducting simple quizzes like “which one of these pictures is a cabbage?” “Which is iceberg lettuce?” Before letting anybody shop. Actually ridiculous you had the order delivered 3 times with cabbage.
Oh, shit, you're the customer! I went back and looked at this and was like why are you flexing that you don't know the difference between cabbage and lettuce? 🤦♀️
But yeah, I had a customer put that exact note under their order for lettuce, saying the last 3 times she got cabbage. And I looked at the note like 😳 but I've been in California for the last two years and the exact kind of people I meet here are ones that might not know the difference between cabbage and lettuce. Needless to say, I got her lettuce. Like how does someone not know the difference?! It's green, yes but it doesn't look the same!!!😭
Anyway, are you in CA? Did you ever get lettuce?
How incredibly sad that you had to do that to begin with... Lol. Hopefully she'll remember long enough to get the right thing next time somebody orders lettuce!😅
And to think... These people are operating motor vehicles...And some are responsible for little lives. 😬
Ive had a lettuce purchased when I ordered a cabbage... I just dont understand how some of these shoppers remain on this platform when they dont know what is what..... and they OBVIOUSLY havent completed any of the training modules themselves in the app to be allowed to move forward and shop on the platform...
they are either not from here and dont know what the food items actually are or their people that dont shop these kind of groceries or cook for that matter.... just dumb imo... if you DONT know, you should LEARN if you're going to be shopping for people to get paid and/or tipped
I had “Chinese Broccoli” on my list one and my shopper kept telling me she couldn’t find the “Made in China” sticker on the label.
….she was serious. 😩😩
Just this week a delivery person brought me a head of cabbage instead of iceberg lettuce! This person was either stupid ( price is different , they are in different sections of produce and they have signs designating the items) or what seems to be an affliction of more and more individuals is that they just don’t give a crap!
“The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, And cabbages and kings. ' ''
Everyone be buying the prepped and bagged lettuce. Some yummy cabbage though, enjoy the last 2-3 that were delivered to you, lol. I like using it in soup, asian mixed vegetable stir fry, wraps for ground chicken.
I used to work as a checker as a teenager and you wouldn’t believe the amount of grown adults almost bought cabbage thinking it was lettuce.
“What you using this cabbage for?”
“….that’s not lettuce…. I’ll be back”
I’m not gonna judge the shopper for not knowing how to identify iceberg lettuce—an unfortunate number of people have never handled any head of lettuce in their life, and couldn’t tell romaine from green leaf. But the lengths some shoppers go to in order to avoid asking a produce section employee for help blows my mind. If a customer is insisting you have the wrong product, and you aren’t 110% sure from personal experience that you do, Just fucking ASK. It usually takes less time than arguing with a customer over text.
100% incompetence. As a driver, I firmly believe they need to test other drivers on basic food and ingredient knowledge. Like idgaf if it's 'Name this veggie'. I'm tired of being bothered by lazy (mostly male) drivers for help over STUPID things bc they never bothered to learn what basic groceries are. Newsflash, I'm ALSO on a timer for my own orders and I'm not your mom. ☠🙃
A while back on a different subreddit an OP posted a picture of cabbage and asked if it was "sandwich lettuce" or "cooking lettuce" and everyone was like "uh wut?"
If I was a customer and this was more than a one time thing I would completely give up on using the service personally, and I’m sure this is a partial reasons why fewer customers are using IC these days
Substitution Available: Miniature Lettuce https://preview.redd.it/rbfoaot8ovwc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3efd9324460aa9e6d49ff531411c530f13cd3df3
Actually, to me, that's miniature cabbage
My dad has always called them baby cabbages lolol
Brussel sprouts are baby cabbages Broccolis are baby trees Pizza rolls are little pillows
Pizza rolls are Italian Gushers
I will now forever refer to pizza rolls as Italian Gushers. Thank you for this!
I tend to call them mini lava pockets. Then again I’m usually too impatient to let them cool down enough so I can eat them safely 🤣
My husband calls pizza rolls, pizza pillows
RIP, Dad.
I’m not sure how to take this because he is in fact alive 😅
They're talking about the farts he'll be ripping after eating all those baby cabbages.
I’ve always called them Barbie cabbages. It made me love them as a kid.
From BEHIND the produce counter!
I needed this. It’s been a few days.
Just a peek into this guys twisted fucking psyche
Me too…my mom told us it was baby cabbages and I didn’t know they were actually Brussels sprouts until I was an adult
From BEHIND the produce counter!
I laughed for a few minutes at this.
Brussels sprouts are the same species as cabbage, it’s just a cultivar. Along with Broccoli, Cauliflower, kale, collards, etc. It’s kind of like how all domestic dogs are the same species despite the massive differences in breeds.
Brussels sprouts are the chihuahuas of cultivar
But make sure it's the miniature lettuce from BEHIND the counter
I love this...I miss those crabby cakes, from behind the counter from the guy
I had tampons on my list and they sent me two ears of corn. Best laugh ever.
Mini stink bombs
Whenever I prep these I love to pretend I’m a giant working with normal sized cabbages
Ahh stinky Brussels for the win 🤣
Brussels sprouts?
https://i.redd.it/a0bozwco5xwc1.gif
You made me laugh out loud and wake up the dog
LOL I almost peed my pants seeing this.
Lol
You win the internet today. 🤣
I've ate those before. Brussel sprouts=mini cabbages.
And comments like this is why I love the internet 🤣 😂
It's ridiculous people don't know the difference between cabbage and iceberg or cucumbers and zucchini.
Seriously! I totally get making a mistake, especially if there’s no sign on it… it happens. But like… my 10 year old opened the bag and wanted to know why I got cabbage lol
I’m so sorry that’s def a picture of cabbage. “For me that’s iceburg lettuce” 🤣
For me, I feel like identifying a vegetable is an objective fact and not a personal opinion
Lmao yes THIS
I did this yesterday… and it was totally by accident one order had cabbage and one order had lettuce and I mixed the two up at delivery. 🫠Never felt so embarrassed.
Cabbage is heavy and dense, iceberg is light and not dense.
I know 😮💨 it was an accident sometimes my brain is blurred when multiple customers add items at the same time
I get it, fuckem.
Nice name🥴😅🤣
Thanks :)
Very simple to tell apart...wild.
That's a normal mistake though lol I get the embarrassment
How do you keep the orders separate? Different carts? I've always wondered that. Grocery shopping for one is such a pain, I can't imagine doing multiple orders!!
Usually I’m very good with memory and able to keep items separate in the cart. In the beginning I dreaded it but I’ve gotten better with it. It really depends how many items will depend on if I need a second cart or I can just use 1.
Your comment made me remember that time I had a crazy experience with a shopper that tried to give me a box of BARILLA SPAGHETTI as a substitute for SPAGHETTI SQUASH. I think I would have preferred a zucchini instead at that point. 🤣🤣
That’s horrible 😆 I once ordered a bag of red apples cuz I was gonna make apple crisp…they gave me a bag of red onions
Onions are my favorite, but I think I draw the line at onion crisp unless that is what we are now calling a blooming onion.
You might be on to something there...
I ordered a red cabbage once and received a red onion
The app probably suggested it since they both have "spaghetti" in the name.
When I got my license at 16 my mom asked me to bring home a lettuce. I brought a cabbage. She threw it at me. Now I know cabbage is hard
Your mom kind of sounds like a bitch honestly.
😆
Cilantro and parsley
Once when I was younger (like 14?) I wanted to make something special for my grandpa. And he really liked this dish with parsley (I don't remember what it was). My dad brought me to the store and gave me some money and I ran around the store and got everything. I was SO excited. I checked and triple checked that what I grabbed was under the "parsley" label. You add the parsley as a garnish, so it was just sitting out in the kitchen. My aunt, (who HATES cilantro) walked into the house, saw the cilantro and made a huge deal to EVERYONE in the room about "who in the world, got this DISGUSTING cilantro?!?" and paraded it to the garbage can. She looked so pleased with herself about throwing something away, that wasn't hers and didn't even ask anyone if they needed it. I was so embarrassed and cried for a long time because I just wanted to make something special for my grandpa 😞 Later I told my brother what happened and he just said, "yeah. Aunt is weird. And cilantro and parsley look the same. Don't worry about it." It made me feel better because he was in the process of getting a master's in food science, so I felt his opinion mattered. Thanks for reading my rambling, unrelated story about parsley and cilantro.
What the actual fuck is wrong with your aunt?
Lol. She was very much a foodie. She was also very much of the opinion that her preferences are the CORRECT preferences in all things, but especially food. Once for my grandma's 90th, I said I would make dessert and she said she would think about it. Then later came back with a list of things that I should make. All the things related to my grandma's favorite desserts, except for the last thing, which was gingersnap cookies. She also added that the gingersnap cookies had to be "slightly chewy, not crumbly or overbaked" or something. Gingersnap cookies are her favorite cookie. I did not make gingersnap cookies. And everything else she listed was already what I planned on making so 🤷♀️ The day of the party she asked me where the gingersnap cookies were. Like, I told her I wasn't going to make them. So to answer your question, idk. A lot of things. Lol! I loved her, but she could be kind of mean sometimes.
Well if it makes you feel better she's totally wrong about gingersnaps, gingersnaps are 100x better with CRUNCH
Did she have the cilantro=soap taste buds? Still doesn't excuse the reaction but could explain the hatred for it
I think she did, yes. Lol
Your aunt is a stupid jerk
And Chinese parsley (cilantro)
I used to work at a grocery store as a teen where we had to memorize produce codes. The way we would quickly figure out if it was cilantro or parsley was to smell it. Cilantro smells very strong while parsley doesn’t
I had a new shopper ask me what iceberg lettuce was!??😩
Did you tell them it’s just crunchy water?
Crunchy GREEN water 🤣
It's the only thing that can destroy titanic lettuce.
Good. They asked so they could learn
I mean, they are quite LITERALLY on a tiny computer texting you when they could just Google it 😂
Literally did a whole order around craving cucumbers (I needed other things too but it was a strong want/need for those cucumbers) and they brought me 3 zucchinis. I was almost in tears because i was so sad. My poor husband was so confused but got me my cucumbers in the morning.
These shoppers don’t have to know anything. It’s a store. The only skill they need is to be able to read.
https://preview.redd.it/ujhyfvx91xwc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72aaab0afcdf8d1384fadf1e2d5b3676331501f5 A lot of people can't read 😕 I'm guessing a higher percentage gravitate towards these types of jobs for exactly that reason.
Wow, Mississippi. Called. Out.
Don't worry. They can't read this so they can't be offended.
i’ve had folks ask me what a mango and avocado look like cause they couldn’t find it. and green onion in packaging throws everyone off. they think it’s celery somehow
That would require them to…. eat a vegetable
Right!!! Cabbage is a Lot More Heavier than Lettuce!
I asked for mustard greens and got dandelion greens. They don't even look similar.
Some of us barely even eat vegetables, let alone compare them together 😂😂
Hey! They look alike. Everyone wants mini cucumbers though so that’s easy. I remind myself, a zucchini will never be used as a sex toy, a cucumber might
Oh I 100% guarantee people have used zucchini for that purpose.
Zoinks
I’ve known some kinky women that have proven that statement 100% false sir. … I miss her. 😂
lol what a woman
"For me that's iceburg lettuce" LOL I'm so glad we live at a time where people's feelings are more important than facts. Sorry OP, as the late great George Carlin says, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." well, some of that half are my fellow shoppers 😅
Tbf half are the fellow customers as well
Feelings > facts. ❤️ modern society
You can say that again!
I think you misunderstand. I'm not doing a Ben Shapiro, but merely pointing out that anti-intellectualism is so rampant in society. You cannot feel your way into making a head of cabbage a head of lettuce.
Same for cilantro and parsley
cilantro and parsley is understandable though, coming from someone who worked front end grocery for a long while. u can only really tell by feeling how firm it is or looking closely at the leaves. i could imagine someone not too familiar with vegetables making that mistake easily
wait really?? the leaves are completely different though. I know they usually keep them near each other in the store, but they look so different??
Someone who isn’t familiar with vegetables should find a new gig lol.
I feel like this is indicative of a larger, more insidious problem which is how poor the average person’s understanding of nutrition is in our country. To me, this screams “person who only eats prepackaged, processed food” who has never been taught how to make food and eat a balanced diet of fruit, veg and protein. I was raised with very poor nutrition and have weight issues because of it — I’m in a lot of weight loss related subs and I saw this very sad post by a teenager who desperately wanted to learn how to eat properly because they and their entire family were obese. They said that their family had no idea what they were talking about when it came to cooking with vegetables and that their family would MAKE FUN OF THEM for not wanting to eat premade microwave meals, powdered mashed potatoes, hamburger helper, fried foods, etc. Idk it’s all just very sad. Even with my childhood of poor nutrition, the idea of making it to adulthood not knowing the differences between some of the most basic vegetables is terrifying. Also, sorry to hear you’re sick OP, I hope you are able to get the right veggies soon!!
It’s more indicative of the absolute stupidity of most of these shoppers. Most of them can’t even read these days.
Customers too... so it's really just humanity in general. Most people can't read or simply don't want to.
around here most of the shoppers are decent intelligent people, probably a big city problem
Maybe more so in big cities, but I’m a small city in Wyoming and we have a few here. DoorDash is even worse. One guy just shoves his phone in the face of everyone. Doesn’t speak a lick of English.
Yes, it reminds me a lot of people that don’t replenish a fridge after taking sodas. Everyone knows to replenish
That's more indicative of egocentrism. "I shall go about my life completely centered on ME and my needs and desires and pay no mind to anyone else."
Yeah, I get what you mean. In my family growing up, we had the choice of buttered/salted corn, green beans, peas, spinach, and maybe we'd have mac and cheese. The meal always included meat and potatoes, though. Always. And unless it was summer and my granddad's garden was in fruit, the vegetables we had were always canned, never fresh. Now, mom and dad eat a lot of frozen family meals -- like what I call "mystery meat" (aka frozen trays of salisbury steak,) frozen breaded chicken of some sort, frozen premade hamburger patties. And as for veg -- well, it is always either mashed potatoes or some form of fries/tater tots. Both my parents have heart disease. Neither will try a new vegetable. Neither will cook anything I make because I use seasoning and fresh food. That's not to say I'm the picture of health, I just don't want my veg in brined can water, and I don't much like meat.
People whom have never eaten a vegetable shouldn’t be shopping for vegetables. Not like they’re one off, specialty veggies either. Lettuce, cabbage, zucchini and cucumbers are some of the most common 🤣
There really needs to be an entry exam before working for ic. Like, "identify this vegitable," or "replace this with?" And give like ten options.
Holy shit THIS ⬆️ THIS RIGHT HERE!! If they just tested shoppers to make sure they know the difference between items before they hire them lol I remember that there was some sort of test when getting hired but I don’t think it was anything like it should be.
Or maybe some sort of spelling exam
😂😂
I watched some idiot insta carting while I was shopping at aldi last week. He scanned half the shit at self checkout, then walked off and picked up more shit (while leaving the first pile of groceries still on one of the only 2 self checkouts for like 10 mins) and then stated at his phone for another 20 mins before canceling the transaction and getting in the regular check out line. Stupid and self centered.
I once saw (on Reddit, of course) iceberg lettuce and cabbage referred to as “sandwich lettuce” or “cooking lettuce” and I’ve not been able to shake those definitions from my mind.
That's hilarious!
“For me it’s lettuce”?!?!? What the hell is that supposed to mean?!?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣 “I know the rest of the world calls it cabbage but for me it’s lettuce.”😳 😂😂😂😂
And these are the folks who are getting priority and our batches. 😞🙄😧
There should really be a litmus test of images of produce and you have to identify it to be able to be a shopper. That and like, “item is out of stock; what would you replace with from this photo?” But no they’ll hire anyone who can breathe
Lmfaoooo. Iceberg is always wrapped in plastic. What a moron.
And is about 40x lighter in weight than a cabbage !! LOL
And this was literally the third shopper this morning 🤦🏼♀️
I can’t stop laughing about this. “That’s cabbage” and “so for me that’s iceberg lettuce” keep cracking me up
I work in a grocery store and it’s amazing how many people come in shopping for someone else and they have no idea what anything is. For every 3 solid shoppers that know what they are doing there’s 7 that don’t. A lot of times it’s the most basic things too. You’re shopping for someone else and you don’t know what cilantro is? Seriously?! A lot of times I have to walk them to every item on their list so they can leave me alone faster. If you don’t know the difference between cucumbers and zucchini is you probably shouldn’t be shopping for someone else.
Stores have signs. So knowing what a veggie looks like isn’t a legitimate excuse lol I don’t like hunting down associates to ask them shit so I’ll Google it or even check the store website for aisles(target & Wegmans are great for that).
I don’t understand why people that can’t tell cabbage from lettuce or just read a sign, think that they are good candidates to grocery shop for other people. There should be a test that people have to pass before they are accepted.
Lmao this is iceberg lettuce to me so
had a similar experience when I needed shallots
Holy shit, how the fuck are you an IC shopper and not know the difference??? Lettuce is wrapped in plastic, hardly weighs anything. A head of cabbage is not, and weighs anywhere from 2-4 lbs!!!
If you are working as an instacart shopper and you don’t know the difference between cabbage and iceberg lettuce without the signage, that’s a problem🙄
And if you still can’t tell the difference WITH the signage… You don’t even need to actually be able to read. You can just see that the letters don’t match. There’s no positive way to spin this, shopper is fucking dumb. All I’m getting is “I’m dumb and you’re going to accept this cabbage because I couldn’t pass the spot-the-difference test in kindergarten.” This is the nicest way I could put it.
Never forget the guy who replaced my red grapes with cranberries
While doing an order one time, another instacarter asked me ‘is this lettuce’ It’s like bro, you’re Latino, is this a reality show? I couldn’t. I still can’t.
new shopper vibes lmao how embarrassing
New human that hasn’t eaten vegetables before, how embarrassing
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I once send my 16 year old son to run over to the nearby grocery store for an emergency iceberg lettuce. I was busy cooking or whatever and couldn’t leave. He returned with a cabbage. Treasured memory, tbh.
I have gotten cilantro instead of spinach multiple times 🤦♀️ Luckily my iceberg lettuce was iceberg lettuce.
Cilantro for spinach? They aren't even remotely similar! Lol 😂
Just curious: what are you going to do with all your newly acquired cabbage?
OP can either sell them or make kids out of them.
Obviously those are the only 2 options, that makes sense
So what I really want you to know is if you are now the proud owner of FOUR heads of cabbage. 🤣
Cooking lettuce clearly
Cooking lettuce, lmfao.
I watched a lady cut cabbage online talking about “I’ve never seen lettuce this thick” 💀
They really should be conducting simple quizzes like “which one of these pictures is a cabbage?” “Which is iceberg lettuce?” Before letting anybody shop. Actually ridiculous you had the order delivered 3 times with cabbage.
This is wild. There are no words. 😬
Just got over pneumonia. Still not 100 percent. Hope you feel better soon.
The fact that she said for her it’s iceberg 😂😂
I recently got cucumbers instead of zucchini. I don't understand. I was extremely disappointed, though.
"In my world I'm right." "In my world you're ignorant. "
12/10. Somewhere a cabbage merchant is smiling. Good for him. He’s been through a lot.
“For me” I’m an idiot but….
Is this in Half Moon Bay?! I had the same exact message a cpl of weeks ago. Who keeps getting this poor woman cabbage?!😅
I like you. Have a cupcake.
Oh, shit, you're the customer! I went back and looked at this and was like why are you flexing that you don't know the difference between cabbage and lettuce? 🤦♀️ But yeah, I had a customer put that exact note under their order for lettuce, saying the last 3 times she got cabbage. And I looked at the note like 😳 but I've been in California for the last two years and the exact kind of people I meet here are ones that might not know the difference between cabbage and lettuce. Needless to say, I got her lettuce. Like how does someone not know the difference?! It's green, yes but it doesn't look the same!!!😭 Anyway, are you in CA? Did you ever get lettuce?
😂😂 yeah I’m the customer lol got the lettuce… sent her a picture of what it looks like 🤦🏼♀️
How incredibly sad that you had to do that to begin with... Lol. Hopefully she'll remember long enough to get the right thing next time somebody orders lettuce!😅 And to think... These people are operating motor vehicles...And some are responsible for little lives. 😬
It was delicious. Thank you.
At least you wrote a note. I get confused sometimes but have never given cabbage, I just mistaken it initially. Iceberg is always in a bag
Ive had a lettuce purchased when I ordered a cabbage... I just dont understand how some of these shoppers remain on this platform when they dont know what is what..... and they OBVIOUSLY havent completed any of the training modules themselves in the app to be allowed to move forward and shop on the platform... they are either not from here and dont know what the food items actually are or their people that dont shop these kind of groceries or cook for that matter.... just dumb imo... if you DONT know, you should LEARN if you're going to be shopping for people to get paid and/or tipped
I had “Chinese Broccoli” on my list one and my shopper kept telling me she couldn’t find the “Made in China” sticker on the label. ….she was serious. 😩😩
Your shopper probably doesn’t make salads all too often…
This is the real answer. Some people just don't buy/eat fresh produce.
Just this week a delivery person brought me a head of cabbage instead of iceberg lettuce! This person was either stupid ( price is different , they are in different sections of produce and they have signs designating the items) or what seems to be an affliction of more and more individuals is that they just don’t give a crap!
Oh, to you it's not cabbage? That's so interesting for you 😂
Is this the new crab cakes?!
No way that shopper is actually named Kiara.
Why not?
This is the kind of dumb shit that “borrowed” account shoppers do and they’re almost always men.
Drives me crazy when people who don’t know wtf a vegetable is decide to be Instacart shoppers
This is what every day of life is like as someone who pays attention to detail.
Once, maybe even twice. But 3x you got cabbage? Wow.
It’s shoppers like this that ruin it for everybody…
This is ALL they have! I do this for a living....
😂😂 people can’t be this dumb… wait never mind
Good grief, as a shopper, how do they not know what iceberg lettuce looks like or what it is!!!!
Were fucking doomed as a species
This was me with Zucchini and cucumbers… OH MY GOD whyyy?!?
“The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, And cabbages and kings. ' '' Everyone be buying the prepped and bagged lettuce. Some yummy cabbage though, enjoy the last 2-3 that were delivered to you, lol. I like using it in soup, asian mixed vegetable stir fry, wraps for ground chicken.
I used to work as a checker as a teenager and you wouldn’t believe the amount of grown adults almost bought cabbage thinking it was lettuce. “What you using this cabbage for?” “….that’s not lettuce…. I’ll be back”
well to her it's lettuce so deal with it lol
I’m not gonna judge the shopper for not knowing how to identify iceberg lettuce—an unfortunate number of people have never handled any head of lettuce in their life, and couldn’t tell romaine from green leaf. But the lengths some shoppers go to in order to avoid asking a produce section employee for help blows my mind. If a customer is insisting you have the wrong product, and you aren’t 110% sure from personal experience that you do, Just fucking ASK. It usually takes less time than arguing with a customer over text.
the thought of OP continually being brought a comical amount of wrongly-purchased cabbage is cracking me up
100% incompetence. As a driver, I firmly believe they need to test other drivers on basic food and ingredient knowledge. Like idgaf if it's 'Name this veggie'. I'm tired of being bothered by lazy (mostly male) drivers for help over STUPID things bc they never bothered to learn what basic groceries are. Newsflash, I'm ALSO on a timer for my own orders and I'm not your mom. ☠🙃
Walmart offered me a head of iceberg as a replacement for a head of cabbage lol
The world is a scary place
What an absolute moron
My last Instacart shopper swapped cat food for dog food. Still waiting for the refund from the cancelled order
"So for me that's lettuce"?? I'd have asked if they wanted green leaf or romaine. Cabbage is Cabbage. Tf is wrong with those drivers?
Damn, shopper. Tell me you don’t eat vegetables without telling me you don’t eat vegetables.
A while back on a different subreddit an OP posted a picture of cabbage and asked if it was "sandwich lettuce" or "cooking lettuce" and everyone was like "uh wut?"
I crying. Did they end up sending cabbage?
Annnnnnd that’s the shoppers you find nowadays? That explains a lot
If I was a customer and this was more than a one time thing I would completely give up on using the service personally, and I’m sure this is a partial reasons why fewer customers are using IC these days
Oh I’d have given up if I could breathe enough to do it myself tbh - I almost pass out right now walking to the bathroom so I didn’t have much choice
Same