Surprising Products and Purchases That Went Above and Beyond Expectations
Absolutely Nailed It
If you’re a nail salon person, you’ve attempted to do it yourself in an effort to pinch pennies! However no matter what you do, & how many gadgets & gizmos you get, nothing can measure up to a pro — especially because painting out of your non-dominant hand will never be clean! Well, we can only guess thats why this woman realised she could only trust a pro with the design on the left.
Anyway, 9 out of 10 likely that when you take reference photo to nail professional, you now what your are gonna get is never a fully like you asked. But this person hit the nail on the head, and you’ll most likely be in agreement with us there. They might be literally the same nails!
Just Hanging Out
Have you ever been promoted something on social media, so odd that you know there and after that you require it? Well don’t worry, you are not alone. Having said that, when this cat lover was inspired by a cat hammock you hang on the radiator, she anticipated her own feline to scoff at it before reaching for her wallet and financially wrecking her bank account. However, something compelled her to purchase it — and thank goodness they did.
Her cat took to it quickly (amazing), and is still “addicted” to it today. We don’t blame her, either. We’d give our eyeteeth to be a cat in a radiator hammock.
A Blooming Good Ice Cream Cone
To be frank, we live in an agglomeration of innumerable ice cream cones — and that’s how we like it. As with a lot of other folk we like to work through the entire range in our supermarket – and we are always excited when something new is released. Which is why we get this rose cones (flavors: blueberry and cheesecake) scooping situation here. However, of course, we would have had doubts as well!
Especially if the ice cream cones have a fancy print like this one: Ice cream cones are hardly ever on point freshly photographed in-house either. However some stroke of luck (and tastiness) has allowed this rose cone to turn out exactly as it should be, and it is very beautiful!
The Cookie Jackpot
Now a days literally everything is available online. Yes, even order customized baked goods in online! Now most people will be familiar with street slang and I’ll warn one to take such listings with a pinch of salt and wait for bottom-of-the-line deliverables, but this person struck cookie gold when ordering these bad boys off Etsy. In fact, we dont think either of us has ever seen plan better looking in our lifetimes.
Well, we have no idea how the person who ordered these plant-inspired cookies ever managed to gather enough courage to take a bite at them because we can only assume they tasted as good too.
Flower Power
There are always risks to ordering flowers online. Well, in-store you get to select flowers and stems that look vibrant, colorful and ideal for the next-day survival. But what’s life with out a tiny bit of risk, right? This hack of a risk pays off sometimes, and this was the case when this person orders flowers intended to be like the bouquets on left.
What arrived is on the right, and we’re not gonna lie, it’s very impressive. What they received was much more than what they originally ordered, and oh do those flowers look fresh and bright! What a result.
Taste the Rainbow
Food tends to lose some of its luster in person — especially when assembled and sold in an Instagram-ready, picture-perfect way. Because this is a food that literally never looks the way you think its going to, so it’s always slightly disappointing. But can we all just take a moment to realise that this rainbow popsicle is everything? We don’t blame this person for gathering proof of such a magnificent moment; honestly speaking, this popsicle really did go above and beyond.
Typically, all the different popsicle flavors and colors blend into a single large blog of an indistinguishable color. However, that’s not what happened in this case. It’s actually the most over-the-top rainbow popsicle ever, and we love it!
Berry Cool
We are all about a good menu with pictures next to the items. So you know what the food should actually look like and then decide according to what you feel like at that time. But anyone who ever dined in a US restaurant and chosen something from a picture menu knows you do not always get what you see. But not in Thailand. Sometimes it is what you are getting and it’s so much better!
Left is the picture on the menu, Right is what they got – we can say this restaurant has really aced it. Step it up, the other restaurants…
A Happy Floof
If you have a pet, then I almost guarantee that a sizeable chunk of your income every month disappears into them. And why not? You feel happy with them, so of course you do everything possible to keep them feeling the same way. Without doubt this person had their doubts over what would come through the post after making an impulse buy and treating their dog to a donut-shaped bed – but it was an exact science.
It looked much higher quality than the price suggested, and their dog was smitten right away! Actually, it is said that this little floof-ball has not left his fluff cocoon since arriving.
The Real Deal
When you scroll through your social media, you’ve probably come across 1 million ads like the one on the left. And that’s because these kinds of adverts are a dime a dozen, and marketed for so many people around the globe. But how many of you have just scrolled right past this ad because it seemed like too much? The gent on the right, though atypical in his quest to go solo, took a chance nonetheless — and was rewarded.
Right: what she got, and we think this has to be an example of the two-piece looking even better on an actual person than it does in the advert! This was a serious win.
Want More Bacon?
And who can say no to free food? However, free food is almost impossible to come by in a time where everything seems to be growing insatiably expensive. Which is why we like the story of this fellow, who went to Five Guys right before closing for some food. The workers asked if he wanted a little spare bacon since they had too much laying around and were going to toss it away after he’d paid. Of course, he said yes!
But what he wasn’t expecting was a whole tray piled high with perfectly crispy bacon – and we can’t blame him! How could they have even thrown away such crispy bacon, though?!
Time to Travel
Photos are a dime a dozen on the internet. So, its basically giant album of albums after all. Although the majority of users scroll quickly through these images without a second glance, there is often one or several shots that catch your attention above all others. This one for the left person who had it. They came across this photo of Banff and enjoyed its beauty so much, they decided to go capture that same beauty for themselves.
The man took them where the right scene was and they snapped the perfect picture These two photos could be identical, save for a little manipulation of clouds and the insertion of an artistic bike rider!
Are You Hungry?
We honestly wouldn’t blame you if your stomach started rumbling and your mouth drooled looking at this. At first glance this picture is simply impressive for two reasons. Overall, we’re pretty happy with the entire meal. Because let’s face it, you don’t come across a meal this considerable very often that looks like would actually get you full. On the other hand, we’re surprised it looks a bit like the menu photo
And even that the actual thing looks better than the menu image, we’d to learn where this eating house is. Here is the if-we-had-to-we’d-fly-around-the-world-a-few-times-just-for-this place.
Look at That Ink
So if you are getting a new tattoo in the near future, this is your sign to send your tattoo artist a reference photo. Naturally, you should always give your tattoo artist some wiggle room – but if you have an idea in mind, the best way to communicate that is with a reference photo. Well, that’s what this individual did when they desired a tattoo of an X-ray frog.
The tattoo artist did a spectacular job reproducing this X-ray on that person’s body (and unless you know nothing about tattooing, you’ll agree it is extremely well done).
Their Lucky Day
We hope the person who took this photo went out and bought a lottery ticket after discovering an extra Samoa in their box of cookies because that was some seriously lucky action. I mean, who really eats just one Samoa at a time? You open that packet, you eat every cookie in front of yourself – and this person won the lottery with a whole baker’s dozen.
And now, if you would please excuse us while we order 100 boxes of cookies in anticipation of finding one pack with 13 Samoas instead of 12. We will catch a break, one day – we hope.
That’s What We’re Taco-Ing About
I would go pay _ for a great taco. $10? $15? But when this individual saw that their bank account had only $7 in it, they decided to take a chance on the universe and ordered (wait for it) a $7 taco from some Mexican place they never went. They knew better than to get their hopes up and figured it would be some small, relatively unexciting gear – but this is what arrived on their doorstep.
Now this is the s**t food dreams are made of and that’s got to be one of the bet tacos we’ve ever laid eyes on. Tastes a big diffrent from the pic, and packed with meat! Where can we purchase one?
Cat’s Out the Bag
Nowadays, it is far easier than ever to order online. You can order anything online — so when this person wanted a brick to protect his windshield, that’s what they found. This certainly won’t be for everyone – but if you have a taste for a bit of cars with cats or would love to see correct little kitties being strapped into baby car seats, you should probably add this to your online grocery shop now too!
Not only is it one of the funniest things we’ve ever watched, but we’re very impressed this graphic is dead-on. Holy hell, it is the right shape, it is the right image (if you recall a photo of Herbie), and as well appears very high quality.
That’s Thick
Most everything on this list met expectations, but here is one of the few examples where reality has outdone what was anticipated. Like, what about this ice cream though?! We all know the best part of an ice cream like this is the chocolate and nuts around the side and the gooey sauce in the middle. Which makes sense, because this ice cream appears to have doubled all of the good parts.
The image on the box sure makes it look tantalizing, though. However, we’d recommend this one for the real photo to have them hock their wares instead. They’d fly off the shelves!
Watch Your Step
Buying furniture & home accessories online is a hit or miss. Standard advice was always to buy in-store because you can discern what you’re actually purchasing, but sometimes finding what one wants in a physical store is an exercise akin to solving a Rubik’s cube. If this person couldn’t find a rug that looked like the above picture in real life, then ordering it online was the only option. And indeed, this is how they acted.
Design-wise, it does feel a bit smaller than the image though the quality is unquestionable. Just when you step into this house, be careful.
A Pepperoni Explosion
Sure, we have all been sold broken promises through products so whilst some have lost their faith in the world its hardly surprising especially when every buzzy food product seems too good to be true. However, if you are a pepperoni pizza lover, you may want to take note of this one. This is because that there ‘Loads of Pepperoni’ actually lives up to its name and then some – as can be seen from the picture of the real deal.
Look at how much pepperoni that has! Most frozen pepperoni pizzas — when one can actually find them — mutate the toppings into just three slices of pepperoni. That is all, so indeed something really special, and we need this right now.
We All Scream
You can bet the ice cream that they’ll order if it’s on the menu — despite the $1.80 ice cream cone looking slightly unappetising on the menu. This person appears to be of the same mindset, which is why they went ahead and ordered up the ice cream. But what they across harmless lines was for reality to terribly surpass expectation.
All it took was that picture for this ice cream cone to look a billion times better than the image — honestly looks like one of the best cones we have ever seen. Just look at that whip!
Trader Joe’s Strikes Again
Raise your hand if you’ve been a member of Trader Joe’s fan club since the beginning? If you are not currently jumping up and down like a lunatic waving your hands in the air like you just don’t care then maybe you should get with it. This shop is known for providing some of the best goods – we believe photos like these speak for themselves. After all, when this one bought this mousse dessert from the market no way did they assume that it would be just like what was on the box.
When they peeled back the wrapping, it was as if someone had taken a slice of the picture off the box and slid it onto their plate. We have to test this perfect dessert next.
The Perfect Pizza
If you beLIEved in the impossibility of getting that perfect pizza, get re-know! Vegetable pizzas are infamous for being nothing but pictures of the box, fitting in the “half vegetable and half lack of cheese” category. However, this person who bought bought this pizza from the store got somewhat lucky this time around. Actually, this pizza looks so unrealistically perfect, that it doesn’t even look real.
Are you certain that the pizza you set up for a photo session was not delivered to your doorstep? Hopefully those were pieces of goat cheese and not chunks of plastic!
Total Pandamonium
Need I say more than food shaped like an animal is beyond adorable? Their food from pig candy to caterpillar cakes are light, whimsical and fun. We don’t blame this person — or maybe we should say semi-human — for getting their claws on this pack of panda ice pops when they went to the supermarket. Same, but we would have viewed these through a healthy skepticism as well.
Popsicles, by and large, become popsicle-ized between factory and store and home. I mean, this panda popsicle was perfectly shaped and that just made it a lot cuter.
Choc-Full of Chocolate
Spoiler alert: I don’t think granola bars are bad, but let’s be real—no one loves granola bars. People consume those because they believe they’re eating something better than a candy bar, and it’ll help them feel virtuous about consuming something sweet at lunch time. So this guy upgraded their granola bar experience — picking dark chocolate and hazelnut — but then somehow hit the motherf*cking jackpot with a “granola” bar that was basically all chocolate.
We could eat granola bars like this every day if they were all like this one! By this time, you might as well just eat a candy bar, so perhaps we’ll take the candy bar.
What a Melon
Anyone else crave popsicles like omg? All the popsicles on this list look so good, and here’s another case in point. Not forgetting, we all know these watermelon popsicles? These do taste good though, but not once these things actually resemble a watermelon ever. Instead, they always seem to just become the red blobs with squished chocolate buttons on them. But once in a blue moon you get a popsicle like this.
We haven’t run into a watermelon popsicle that resembles this yet, so I think we would box the popsicle up and stick it in the freezer rather than eat it. So of course, this was a popsicle worth worshipping.
Cute Little Guys
Despite the low price, in this day and age — a box of chocolates for $4.99 is practically a miracle. And that has only made chocolates more expensive — and chocolates appear to get even pricier around the holidays. Which is why we can completely get this person who checked in a box while they were already going grocery shopping. But at such low prices, they probably anticipated for these chocolates to look slightly worse for wear.
I mean in reality they look great! This box of thin, cheap chocolates must have required a fair amount of effort from the company behind it considering how small they all are.
Straight Out the Box
Though, we probably don’t need to tell you that it’s tough to make a bowl of cereal look attractive. Usually, it is merely a handful of shapes thrown into a bowl, with an odd bit of fruit tossed in for good measure. However, this box had one very appealing looking bowl of cereal on it — and we can only imagine their surprise when they opened up the box to pour a bowl that looked nearly 100 percent identical.
Fine, this person could use some more milk in the smoothie game but boy oh boy does this breakfast look delicious. If cereal was always this aesthetic, we would eat it every day.
Time for Denny’s
Especially for U.S. citizens, you probably visited a Denny’s at least one time in your life. Sure, this restaurant is a staple for fast food, but did you know Denny’s already exists all over the globe? Denny’s in Tokyo — You could say we’re amazed. So the image at the top is what they ordered, and the one at the bottom was what delivered itself (so to speak) before them.
The fact that this is somehow being pulled off by Denny’s has us shaking our heads and ready to jump on a plane to Tokyo to enjoy all the other awesome food they have over there.
A Total Bargain
Is this even real and are creative done aren look at us please or guess what? This rack is slashing it up on our Walmart for $7 curry. Or get a few now, before the rest of the world figures it out and they vanish from the shops. That is because these creme pies are known for being extremely tasty with a thick layer of cream and chocolate. But more than that, they have a reputation for appearing exactly the way they are supposed to appear. Which its what all hard to find these days.
This chocolate creme pie is dessert dream worthy from the drizzle with chocolate to peaks of whipped cream. Although we could likely finish this entire thing off by ourselves too.
Buy One Get Three Free
If you ever ordered online, you’ll know first hand that this isn’t a guarantee. In brick-and-mortar purchases, you can buy exactly what you want — and in as many units of that thing as you want. However, this is not the case with online orders. That moment you type in your credit card, then the factory workers an delivery drivers I feel like own your purchase. They do not always get it right either.
But not all these mistakes are bad! This time around, this fella ordered one PlayStation controller but had four of them turn up on his doorstep. We really wonder what he did with all of them.
Orange You Glad
We can eat anything fruit-flavored, all day long. So obviously, we want to know what this fruity flan is and where can we get some! It looks perfectly suited to it after all. Layered baked goods can so often appear way different than the pictured. But this flan is a spitting image of its pic. It’s more like a just little bit smaller, literally.
This flan is identical in every way, from the jell-o-esque glossy top to how many holes are visible through the bottom of its pastry case. That’s pretty cool, actually.
Extra Slice of Luck
Not the most spectacular dish, fortune cookies always provide a fun ending to your meal. And regardless of whether you buy this crap, all you need to do is crack them open and look at the insides. But what do you do when your packet comes with two fortunes cookies inside? Image: A new story on Bored Panda Well, that happened to this person and we’re not sure if that makes them very lucky, or a jinx.
Maybe one of them always tells the truth, and the other fortune cookie only tells the truth? In any case, just the possibility of getting two for one is a little freaky and we reckon we’d have been rather spooked.
Too Much Topping?
We’re not averse to a pizza as much as the next bloke. We love the oozing cheesiness, we love the crispy crusts and toppings make our bellies wobble with joy. Oh, and we never thought we’d be asking this question, but is there such a thing as too much topping? They bought themselves a cheese and vegetable pizza, expecting similar toppings to what they saw in the image. But they got this in return.
This pizza has so many toppings that we can hardly see the cheese beneath, and we’re not really sure how we feel about it. Only a taste test will tell.
A Sprinkle of Joy
What could possibly be better than a sprinkle popsicle No, we thought not. However, as anyone who has ever sought to track down these popsicles can tell you, they are often terribly underwhelming. That’s because, apart from the occasional stray here and there, they’re not able to be called a sprinkle popsicle when they hardly have any sprinkles on them at all. And that is exactly why we are seriously jealous of this person who cracked open what looks like the world’s sickest sprinkle popsicle.
This thing is like 99% sprinkles and appears exactly as it looks on the packaging. So all that’s left is to see the interior, to find out if it’s the best of all possible worlds!
Grab a Slice
Like anyone realizes frozen pizza is very trustworthy, look at how many pizzas are on here already. They’re definitely nice to have on hand in the freezer for when you need a quick dinner, but they really don’t compare with ordering out from a real pizzeria. But there comes a frozen pizza every once in awhile that surprises all of us, and this is one.
Dr. O pizzas are the best in general for a reason, see this for proof Expectation was low, with reality exceeding expectation… and then some.
Imitation Is Art
The food world is two parts. First you have the big name brands with the big reputation and big price tag. And on the other side you have the small brands attempting to contend with their cheaper clones of similar products. Normally when it comes to taste, the big name brands always come out in front – but not this time. Just look at these things!
These ice cream bars are a type of knockoff from a Snickers ice cream bar, and the buyer said they taste way better than the real version! Plus, they look better too!
Feeling Fruity
Ice cream pops are great, but what about gelato pops? If you haven’t tasted any yet, this is your excuse to go buy a box at the supermarket and experience deliciousness for yourself. You may want to look for a box of these ones too though. And this guy actually did and thought that there would not be any visible fruit from his gelato popsicle But when they finally opened it up, they were pleasantly surprised.
There is even a fruit topping that they almost look entirely like the box image. And that’s rare in the popsicle world, so we’d grab as many boxes as you can fit in your freezer.
Totally Coco-Nutty
These cookies make us think of that treat available only once a year from certain children, but when you want to eat these lovely cookies outside of the Girl Scout time frame? This would surely not lead to less money for the Girl Scouts, because really: Who could resist cookies that taste just as great – and are much cheaper? Well, it would be hard.
The buyer was super impressed by the price as well as the flavor and how they resembled the carton backup photo. And we’re impressed, too.
The Perfect Snack
Pretzels are good, but chocolate-drizzled pretzel crisps are better — and anyone in the history of the world who has ever attempted to purchase this snack knows that these can be a huge letdown. Most of the time, there is barely any chocolate drizzle so the whole experience is miserable. Well, you can just guess how shocked we were to see that this individual got their hands on the exact chocolate drizzled pretzel thins sitting on the shelf.
There was so much chocolate on these that it actually made them stick together! Hopefully this wasn’t all that was in the bag because four pretzel thins is far from satiating.
Too Good to Be True
If you’re staring at this burger and thinking no way, that doesn’t exist well you’re not the only one. Yes, we’ve all seen fastfood burger pics before — but there are enough YouTube videos to have us not biting into a glossy bit of deception. We all know that burgers never look as good in real life as a ad commercial. However, this burger appears to be an exception to that.
The only thing we are not getting over is how artificial this burger looks — it a good way! Everything is there from the immaculately crisp lettuce to what looks like melted cheese oozing out of it.
