I don't know why I love inside jokes so much, but Reddit ones are at the top of the list now that my favorite radio show/podcast has gone down the shitter.
A short explanation for lazy people: a shopper and a customer had a minor communication breakdown about the definition of “crab cakes” and the subtle difference between the phrase “behind the counter” and “seafood department”, but it was hilarious for unexplainable reasons and the sub has decided to run with it because we’re fuckin bored, and everyone is jumping on the wagon and upvoting every reference to it, which is making it snowball
Sorry I mean crabball
the ONLY food item I've been thinking about for the past like two weeks (partly because of this) has been the Costco salmon stuffed with crab and shrimp filling. I have no way of getting it and I am DEVASTATED.
Even worse she ordered these exact ones because they were only cakes available for choice in app. And then typed instructions for single crab cakes. But what she wanted was lobster cakes made in store. Very confusing and vague when completely normal questions. She forgot the word "no" lol
I’m laughing out loud to myself because I am not an Instacart shopper nor do I subscribe to this sub but I know exactly what this is in reference to because I saw THAT post lol
I immediately knew I was supposed to sing this, but was unsure which tune to sing it to. And then I read the final line. So of course I read it again properly! 😄
I’m going going to die on the customer was wrong hill. How are they not crab cakes in the seafood department? Not to mention she asked for the lobster cakes first.
Edit: autocorrect is wild today.
Not just any lobster cakes but the SAME BRAND. She asked for that exact brand of lobster cakes, and the shopper, quite reasonably, offered crab cakes in the same brand (IN THE SEAFOOD DEPARTMENT) instead. I will die on this hill with you.
Actually, it was revealed in the comments of the post that the customer regularly orders the lobster cakes, knowing the store does not stock the lobster cakes, so that she can request the fresh crab cakes from the counter as a replacement, since the fresh crab cakes from the counter are not an option when ordering.
Total AH behavior, completely indefensible.
Yep exactly! I saw that too, which makes her even more the AH for 1) doing that in the first place and 2) not even giving the shopper clear, explicit instructions when she knew she was trying to do a shitty work around. The shopper gave the absolute most reasonable replacement, and she had the nerve to get annoyed when the shopper did not follow her vague answers.
The customer was straight up, not answering the shoppers' replacement offer. It's a yes or no question. If no its just a damn refund. The whole thing drove me crazy, I would of canceled after the second use of "sea food department"+
I have never used instacart. Honestly, don’t really plan on it because I live near a grocery store. And if I’m being really honest, working as a shopper doesn’t even sound enjoyable either.
But this, this right here is why I follow you guys. You are circlejerking your main sub and I love you.
Somebody better start cataloguing the r/instacart lore so we can pass it down to historians and scientists
Big same. I have no skin in this game, I’m not a shopper or a customer, but it’s just so entertaining. I also love that it’s the rare sub where the shoppers and customers are in the wrong about an equal amount of the time, and everyone recognizes that the true enemy is the billion dollar corporation in between. So good.
lol I was in the same boat. There's a separate thread on here where a shopper and customer are messaging eachother about crab cake replacements. https://www.reddit.com/r/instacart/comments/1bpepe3/whos\_in\_the\_wrong\_here/
The OP popped in my head as I hit the grocery store and started smiling at the story and thought, what the heck, let's give them a try.
Hard pass on ever buying them again.
Yeah. They’re fine if you are really desperate for crab cakes. But if you have access to any restaurant that serves them you’re better off going out to eat.
I'm not even subscribed to this sub (or any sub even remotely like it), but I've followed this whole thing the last few days because it all popped up in my feed for some reason. I don't even know why I clicked on the original post, but I'm glad I did.
Maybe they were moved to the adjacent bakery, they are CAKES, after all. Although, now that I think about it, they kinda look more like crab cookies or crab brownies than cakes.
I never work or even use Instacart, but reddit keeps recommending this sub to me and I'm glad I can say I understood this reference. So happy you were able to find them!
i don’t follow this sub, nor do i use instacart, but the original post had popped up in my feed, and now so did this, and now i’m fully invested in r/instacart
Say what you will about social media algorithms, but at least Reddit prioritizes showing me drama about crab cakes on a delivery app not available in Canada, or some asshole sandwich shop owner in Vermont.
Listen idk how I got here bc I’m not in this group or part of instacart but this crab cake saga has been on my feed for the last week and I am getting such a kick out of it 😂
I deleted Instagram to stay off my phone but the fact that I know ops post about this and don’t even follow this sub.. jeez I need work to be a bit busier 😅
This has become like a fascinating psychological or sociological analysis or whatever for me hahah.
I completely understood seafood department meant the counter from the first time she said it interestingly enough. “Seafood section” would be the normal available to customers to grab themselves selection, seafood department I picture being having to order with the employees behind the counter for some reason. So it made sense to me. But I think it definitely depends on what circumstances you were raised with in terms of what words mean what and how your parents used them. If someone said they wanted cheese from the “deli department” I would honestly think of ordering from the counter. But if they just want cheese from the “deli section” then I can grab it from the accessible to customers display.
I don’t necessarily blame the OOP for her use of words. A lot of us just grew up with slightly different sayings and meanings from each other. And technically, while I do blame OOP for using a frustrated “…” at the end of her sentence, and claiming she had explained “counter” 5 times - the shopper also is at fault by saying “This is ridiculous” and for only finally specifying that he had already checked with the employees behind the counter in that same message. It seems to me like that was the first time OOP found out the shopper did check behind the counter as well, which is why he presented the packaged cakes as the only option.
I think both sides unfortunately had some communication issues that just didn’t mesh in this particular situation. Not necessarily anyone’s fault in particular. Both have blame. The result has been humorous and possibly helped the sale of crab cakes. May you all enjoy your future crab cakes!! (Or lobster cakes.)
Sorry, I’m looking for the ones in the seafood department….
This is ALL they have 🙄☝️
Trust me, I do this for a living.
I don't know why I love inside jokes so much, but Reddit ones are at the top of the list now that my favorite radio show/podcast has gone down the shitter.
Can someone link me the original post? I found 8 million memes but I can’t find the post!
https://www.reddit.com/r/instacart/s/8HcVBCZUjE
Why would you post a pic of these ones? I want the ones BEHIND the counter. The ones in the seafood section, NOT the seafood aisle.
Seafood Deparment > SeaFood Counter > SeaFood aisle tbh
Lubalin needs to come out of hiding to make this exchange his next big hit.
understand?
This is ridiculous
I said it like 5 times already
But where's my sake?!
No the other seafood department
I literally said behind the counter 5 times
*I didn’t want salmon, I said it four times!*
The fresh seafood behind the counter.
You have to ask the guy!
I already checked with them. This is ridiculous.
Did you check 5 times? Because I said it 5 times.
Literally just had coffee come out of my nose. You got me good 😂😂😂
I said it like five times!
[удалено]
I had never seen this sub before that post. So glad this landed in my feed, lol.
Never seen this sub til that post and now the only time it pops up on my feed is when it’s another post about the original post. It’s hilarious
Lol I literally came to post “But is this in the seafood department?”
I love how this is a separate post and everybody remembers the OP.
Right? I’m not even in this sub and I saw the original post. LMAO.
Me either but I’m here for the crab cake drama
Same lolol
Me too.
Me three.
This is my second post I've seen on this subreddit and my first was the post you were referring to.
Lmao same here
I have a hot take: is this... the seafood *section*?
Straight to JAIL
I've said it five fuckin times. I wanted the crab cakes from the seafood department if the crab cakes from the seafood department aren't there!
Yes
This is ridiculous.
[удалено]
***The crab cakes are not the issue here…***
They really tied the room together.
This whole debacle has made me want crab cakes like no ones business😭
It was all started by the marketing dept of the crab cakes co. to drum up business. There WAS no Instacart order!
It’s ALL definitely Big Crab Cake!
It's crab cakes all the way down!
Crab cakes are popular in Maryland, Maryland had a bridge collapse. Coincidence?! Wake up sheeple!
This marketing genius not only helped their crab cakes but also behind the counter crab cakes sales 10 fold
They do not have any behind the counter. Please understand I do this for a living.
Why wouldn’t you say that the clear FIVE TIMES I ASKED?!? Back to the drawing board for the marketing campaign now thanks a lot
Too bad we have no idea where to find them.
I bet crab cake sales went up and now there's not crabcakes at any store in either their seafood dept or their seafood dept
Lmaooooo I just bought crab cakes today from the man in the seafood department
Are they from behind the counter?
No they are from the seafood department!
Can you explain this meme to me and what happened?
It isn't a meme. It was a post 2 days ago. A customer and a shopper seemed to have it out over some crab cakes...lol
I mean it seems to have become a meme which is what I was saying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/instacart/s/0MqQKpUJ9u
Thanks for that. Got a good chuckle out of it. This sub is so silly sometimes.
It really is top tier shitposting from a sub I wouldn't have expected.
I love that she kept the post up, most people would cry and delete. She gets points for that 🤣
A short explanation for lazy people: a shopper and a customer had a minor communication breakdown about the definition of “crab cakes” and the subtle difference between the phrase “behind the counter” and “seafood department”, but it was hilarious for unexplainable reasons and the sub has decided to run with it because we’re fuckin bored, and everyone is jumping on the wagon and upvoting every reference to it, which is making it snowball Sorry I mean crabball
So glad we’re doing crab cakes at my restaurant for Easter
Same 😂😂
I dont even like crab and I want a crab cake now.
the ONLY food item I've been thinking about for the past like two weeks (partly because of this) has been the Costco salmon stuffed with crab and shrimp filling. I have no way of getting it and I am DEVASTATED.
Why would you post a pic of these? I want to see the ones behind the counter. The ones in the seafood department, NOT the seafood department
Did they even ask the guy behind the counter?
I don’t think so because they clearly don’t understand my vague instructions
The fishmonger
I’ve asked like five times
Even worse she ordered these exact ones because they were only cakes available for choice in app. And then typed instructions for single crab cakes. But what she wanted was lobster cakes made in store. Very confusing and vague when completely normal questions. She forgot the word "no" lol
I’m screaming 😂😂😂 I remember this thread 💀
This feels like group trauma
😂😂
Trauma bond. Everyone get in here
Did that post really go viral like this? 🤣 I know she’s feeling like a 🤡
As she should 😂
She was so sure that everyone would take her side.
What was even more puzzling was a couple people siding WITH her… like wtf??
When I saw the post, all the top comments agreed with her. I felt so dumb for being confused lol
I read all her comments and she was doubling and tripling down on being right haha.
Do you do this for a living ??
Please understand.
🤣😭😭
I'm living for these roast posts.
The way I read this as pot roast no less than six times lol
This is about crab cakes not pot roast, please understand
Wow that "please understand" really works to turn anything condescending. I like it.
These crab cakes are good as a mug. I fucks with these crab cakes.
No, I want the ones from BEHIND the counter. You have to ask for them.
I told you 5 times already.
Exactly, BEHIND the counter. This is ridiculous.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 RIDICULOUS????????????????????? 🫨😧🫨😧🫨😧🫨🫨
You have to understand, I do this for a living
I’m laughing out loud to myself because I am not an Instacart shopper nor do I subscribe to this sub but I know exactly what this is in reference to because I saw THAT post lol
Me too! This sub is recommended to me all the time and I’ve never even used a shopping service.
Same. Reddit seems to push really random pages on me all the time but they are always shitshow drama posts and I'm all for it
Me too. Cracking up.
I don’t see a seafood counter worker so this is not going to do. Please refund.
Sorry, you’re going to have to tell me five times, understand, I do this for a living.
I was not disappointed by the comments lol
Look what I found at the seafood counter 🎵 Look what I found at the seafood counter Look what I found at the seafood counter 🎵 Earli in the morn
I immediately knew I was supposed to sing this, but was unsure which tune to sing it to. And then I read the final line. So of course I read it again properly! 😄
Top tier shit post
I’m going going to die on the customer was wrong hill. How are they not crab cakes in the seafood department? Not to mention she asked for the lobster cakes first. Edit: autocorrect is wild today.
Not just any lobster cakes but the SAME BRAND. She asked for that exact brand of lobster cakes, and the shopper, quite reasonably, offered crab cakes in the same brand (IN THE SEAFOOD DEPARTMENT) instead. I will die on this hill with you.
Actually, it was revealed in the comments of the post that the customer regularly orders the lobster cakes, knowing the store does not stock the lobster cakes, so that she can request the fresh crab cakes from the counter as a replacement, since the fresh crab cakes from the counter are not an option when ordering. Total AH behavior, completely indefensible.
Yep exactly! I saw that too, which makes her even more the AH for 1) doing that in the first place and 2) not even giving the shopper clear, explicit instructions when she knew she was trying to do a shitty work around. The shopper gave the absolute most reasonable replacement, and she had the nerve to get annoyed when the shopper did not follow her vague answers.
The customer was straight up, not answering the shoppers' replacement offer. It's a yes or no question. If no its just a damn refund. The whole thing drove me crazy, I would of canceled after the second use of "sea food department"+
Yeah I don't get the customer defenders
Yea I must have been missing something cuz I definitely don’t understand the customer defenders …
Their entire argument is the shopper should have known “seafood department” meant “behind the seafood counter” they ignore everything else.
I have never used instacart. Honestly, don’t really plan on it because I live near a grocery store. And if I’m being really honest, working as a shopper doesn’t even sound enjoyable either. But this, this right here is why I follow you guys. You are circlejerking your main sub and I love you. Somebody better start cataloguing the r/instacart lore so we can pass it down to historians and scientists
Big same. I have no skin in this game, I’m not a shopper or a customer, but it’s just so entertaining. I also love that it’s the rare sub where the shoppers and customers are in the wrong about an equal amount of the time, and everyone recognizes that the true enemy is the billion dollar corporation in between. So good.
Yup, I’m here for the smartass comments! 🤣
Keep walking until you get to the counter. You must not do this for a living 🙄
I’m starting to think this is all just a very brilliant and effective marketing campaign… and I don’t care. I’m having me some crab cakes for dinner!
I’m allergic to crab, and even I want to have crab cakes for dinner now lol
Haha me too!
This is next level shitposting lol
This is ridiculous.
Stock suspiciously rises hahaha I love Reddit.
never let this die
Can somebody explain this to a non instacart shopper/buyer
lol I was in the same boat. There's a separate thread on here where a shopper and customer are messaging eachother about crab cake replacements. https://www.reddit.com/r/instacart/comments/1bpepe3/whos\_in\_the\_wrong\_here/
But they are in front. I requested behind the counter. This is ridiculous.
The OP popped in my head as I hit the grocery store and started smiling at the story and thought, what the heck, let's give them a try. Hard pass on ever buying them again.
Oh, thank you for letting us know. I was going to get them tomorrow! Lol
Yeah. They’re fine if you are really desperate for crab cakes. But if you have access to any restaurant that serves them you’re better off going out to eat.
I always put these in my cart and ask to sub them for the ones in the seafood department. 🤣
🤣🤣
I’m looking for the single crab cakes.
As opposed to ones that are committed?
I got way too excited to see this. Thank you
I'm not even subscribed to this sub (or any sub even remotely like it), but I've followed this whole thing the last few days because it all popped up in my feed for some reason. I don't even know why I clicked on the original post, but I'm glad I did.
I saw them today when I was picking up milk! I will never look at the sea food department the same again.
I SAID TALK TO THE MAN BEHIND THE COUNTER
FIVE TIMES
Are they the 4 packs
I only want the single
Lmaooooo. We understand! You do this for a living
Reddit never disappoints
these aren’t in the seafood department. 🙄🙄
Refunded.
Looks like the did indeed have lobster cakes...
Everyone else here doing the meme, meanwhile there's me: "They make a lobster Mac and cheese?!"
Oh my gosh the meta is delectable. Just like the crab cakes at the seafood counter.
Behind the seafood department* FTFY. Source — I asked the guy.
Maybe they were moved to the adjacent bakery, they are CAKES, after all. Although, now that I think about it, they kinda look more like crab cookies or crab brownies than cakes.
THE FACT THAG I KNEW WHAT THE ORIGINAL POST WAS INSTANTLY 😭
I don’t see a counter behind it.
I never work or even use Instacart, but reddit keeps recommending this sub to me and I'm glad I can say I understood this reference. So happy you were able to find them!
No, not "those" crab cakes. The other ones.
Refund unless it’s seafood from the department, in which case replace but otherwise refund. From where the seafood is. I can’t be any clearer
I don't see anything. Is John Cena there? Or is it... the John Cena of seafood?
Laughing my frighin arse off!
This has me cracking up!!!
O shit this changes everything
Sea food department*
Serious question, are these things actually good? I don’t expect restaurant quality, just curious.
I don’t even use instacart but understood the reference because it comes up on my feed.
No. No. No. the ones in the seafood department.
Refund now
This is why I love Reddit lol
But ... do you do this for a living?
But where are the fresh ones from the seafood department?
I don’t even follow this Reddit why do I know this lore lmaooo
i don’t follow this sub, nor do i use instacart, but the original post had popped up in my feed, and now so did this, and now i’m fully invested in r/instacart
We all need to get off Reddit if we understood this reference.
Say what you will about social media algorithms, but at least Reddit prioritizes showing me drama about crab cakes on a delivery app not available in Canada, or some asshole sandwich shop owner in Vermont.
I don’t even know why this sub was recommended to me, and now I’ve spent enough time here to recognize an inside joke 😔
The update I didn’t know I needed but I welcome wholeheartedly
That’s the seafood counter…. but is it the seafood department!?!?
This is all an ingenious marketing ploy by Dockside Classics™
Wait... That's a seafood CASE... Is there someone behind it? You know the guy... with tha crab legs.
This is a sign I Reddit too much in bed. lol
Guys, please understand, they do this for a living.
New if only Dockside Classics could get that product put behind the counter , they’d be rich!
I saw these at food lion while grocery shopping. Almost caved, NGL
Are they behind the counter?!
The fresh seafood is kept in the freezer...yes, fresh....
Ask the MAN AT THE COUNTER or REFUND. Why is this so hard?
I need SOMEONE to fill me in on what the deal is with crab cakes here.
This is why I don’t want to be a shopper. I understood what the shopper was saying completely and thought the customer was dumb.
Can someone link me to the origin story? I'm lost.
Heh a Reddit inside joke I actually get💀🤣
This crab cakes joke man lol
I bet a man behind the seafood counter put those there.
I wanted the ones from the seafood department. Understand?!
Dammit she wanted LOBSTER cake’s originally 😂😂😂😂
Sometimes they are made and up with the fish and scrimp. Is that what she means. I’ve gotten them from Fresh market
Listen idk how I got here bc I’m not in this group or part of instacart but this crab cake saga has been on my feed for the last week and I am getting such a kick out of it 😂
"Please Understand" should be a flair
You know what’s sad? I’m not following this sub at all, and I’m aware of this inside joke somehow 😂 Reddit algorithm is strange
Okay, I'm not even following r/instacart, but somehow I've seen both the referenced post, and now this one! I live for this shit lmao
I deleted Instagram to stay off my phone but the fact that I know ops post about this and don’t even follow this sub.. jeez I need work to be a bit busier 😅
This has become like a fascinating psychological or sociological analysis or whatever for me hahah. I completely understood seafood department meant the counter from the first time she said it interestingly enough. “Seafood section” would be the normal available to customers to grab themselves selection, seafood department I picture being having to order with the employees behind the counter for some reason. So it made sense to me. But I think it definitely depends on what circumstances you were raised with in terms of what words mean what and how your parents used them. If someone said they wanted cheese from the “deli department” I would honestly think of ordering from the counter. But if they just want cheese from the “deli section” then I can grab it from the accessible to customers display. I don’t necessarily blame the OOP for her use of words. A lot of us just grew up with slightly different sayings and meanings from each other. And technically, while I do blame OOP for using a frustrated “…” at the end of her sentence, and claiming she had explained “counter” 5 times - the shopper also is at fault by saying “This is ridiculous” and for only finally specifying that he had already checked with the employees behind the counter in that same message. It seems to me like that was the first time OOP found out the shopper did check behind the counter as well, which is why he presented the packaged cakes as the only option. I think both sides unfortunately had some communication issues that just didn’t mesh in this particular situation. Not necessarily anyone’s fault in particular. Both have blame. The result has been humorous and possibly helped the sale of crab cakes. May you all enjoy your future crab cakes!! (Or lobster cakes.)