'I forgive you': 20+ Customers who ordered absurd sandwiches

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 19, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

While working in sandwich shops, these cashiers managed to lose their appetites. After creating some truly monstrous sandwiches, these ones were memorable enough to tell the world about. 

When you ask sandwich shop workers to share the "strangest order you've ever had from a customer," you end up discovering what people's favorite ingredients are. For example, more than one person had to make sandwiches that were completely covered in olives! They're known for adding a bit of salty flavor to a sandwich, and apparently at many chains, adding six olives per sandwich was the norm. But that's not enough for these people, who demanded dozens of olives. Handfuls! It would be enough to overpower the taste of anything else on the sub. 

Other people shared their horror stories of mayo monstrosities. A little bit of the dressing adds a nice flavor to a sandwich, but that's not what these quirky customers were asking for. No, it wasn't enough to have a thin layer of the stuff on their lunch. Instead, they wanted so much mayo that the employees questioned their sanity. One person even seemed embarrassed about how much mayonnaise she was requesting, and admitted "I'm actually messed up, I need more mayo." Know thyself, I guess. If a customer is willing to pay double-digit prices for their scary sandwich, that's their right. 

Next up, read about some disastrous first dates, like one person who shared that their date told them they could order anything they wanted… so long as it came from the dollar menu. 

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  • 01
    People who work at a subway/sandwich place, what is the strangest order you've ever had from a customer?
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    lusiris I worked at a subway a long time ago and a guy would order two full bags of lettuce on his sandwich every day. Imagine 2 pounds of lettuce on some bread. He would order often enough that I knew to go in the back and grab two full bags just for him.
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  • 03
    Dragnil I used to work at McDonald's. We had a regular customer who wanted a plain quarter pounder, no bun, extra extra extra extra extra pickles. Basically, just a 1/4lb beef patty with like a half cup of pickle slices on top of it.
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    Beebrains Don't work there, but they ordered a veggie delight on flatbread, but the only veggies they wanted was olives and they asked for it to be absolutely DOUSED in oil & vinegar. Like it looked like a soggy waffle with olives sticking out.
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  • 05
    Ze... I worked in a pizza place and at one point we had a man walk in and order a personal cheese pizza. Then he specified that he wanted no sauce. Then added that he wanted no cheese. Then decided he'd like to add uncooked cherry tomatoes. as a topping. We ended up cooking a slab of dough and
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    throwing some cherry tomatoes on top. He then proceeded to use the pizza crust as a plate for his tomatoes, then threw the crust away after finishing his tomatoes. We had a salad bar with the exact same tomatoes as well.
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    Potatocrawler Back in High School, I worked at the local subway. Every night, 30 minutes to an hour before close, this large African American man built like an NFL linebacker would come in, and no matter how many or what kinds, would clean out whatever was left of our cookies for the night. Two Oatmeal Raisins? A dozen
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    Chocolate Chip? A smattering of everything? Didn't matter, he'd purchase every single cookie left and leave. We nicknamed him Cookie Monster.
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    Ginger-spice My town had a lot of foreign exchange students from South Korea and they would always order the meatball subs with scoops of "seafood sensation" which was just mayo and imitation crab. Then have it toasted, it smelled horrible.
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  • 10
    Also had a guy that could barely talk he was so h wanted every sauce on his chicken bacon ranch, it was more soup by the end. Then he gets to the register and he remembers he doesn't have any money and walks away. My manager actually asked anyone if they wanted it.
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    MoonpiesForMisfits This one guy used to come into my sub shop at least twice a week. Always ordered a steak and cheese with extra, extra ketchup. Except you couldn't put enough ketchup on it. We could use over half a bottle and he would still come back and ask for the bottle because "packets took too much time."
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    Jean_Keys I worked at a Burger King my junior year of high school (Not a sandwich shop, but play along). I was on specialty board (chicken and fish mainly). This order came through for an original chicken with "HHHH mayo". "H" in the training stood for heavy or extra. I asked my manager if it was a typo and they said no this guy comes
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    in once a week for that sandwich. I swear, by the time my manager said the sandwich was "proper", the mayo was thicker than the chicken patty itself. I felt like I needed to bathe afterwards.
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    Crazehness Don't work there any more, but the one order that sticks in my mind above everything else was one time a guy came in on the phone to order two sandwiches and he explained one was for his 7 months pregnant wife so to please make it right, he has a list of exactly what she wants. So I made it exactly how it was written down,
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    then made his and he paid and all was good in the world. Then maybe ten minutes. later the phone rings and I answer it and there is this woman on the phone just screaming at me telling me I made her sandwich wrong and how she wanted ranch instead of mayo and blah blah and that she would send her husband in to get it
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    remade, ya know full Karen minus the "let me speak to the manager" bit. So the guy comes back in and I immediately recognize him and he's apologizing profusely explaining that his wife is pregnant and hormones and whatnot, and I assured him I've been yelled at for less it's no big. deal I'll remake it at no charge, he has the offending sandwich, I remake it right
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    and throw the old one away, and as I'm ringing up the order (even though it was free it still had to be rung up at $0 for bread count accuracy) the phone rings. So I hand the man his sandwich and answer the phone and there is this woman on the phone hysterically crying on the other end and so I ask if she's alright and she
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    informs me that she called earlier and she felt horrible about yelling at me because she realized she wrote it down wrong and it wasn't my fault and the whole time I'm just awkwardly telling her that it's okay, no big deal we got it taken care of, you're okay don't worry about it, It's no big deal. And then she, still sobbing, asks me straight up "do you
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    forgive me?" And I said "it's all good no worries" and she said "No. Do you forgive me?" And I said "yeah dont worry about it" and she asked again "but do you forgive me?" And I replied "yes, I forgive you. Have a great night ma'am." After which she hung up.
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    I still remember that even seven years later because it was the only time I've ever had a customer call back not only to apologize, but crying about it as well. Ironically for the question I don't actually remember what the specific sandwich was, I wanna say it was an oven roasted chicken breast but I truly am just taking a shot in the dark.
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  • 21
    LeftHand Morty9 Was getting breakfast at this place called "The great Canadian Bagel Company". The girl ahead of us gets a breakfast sandwich with extra mayo and then says: "like a serious amount of mayo, more than you think is comfortable". The guy does a solid 4 servings and she shakes her head in
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    disgust/shame and is like "No.. I'm actually messed up, I need more mayo". Took everything in me not to laugh as it happened.
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  • 23
    I worked at Subway many years ago. There was a couple that would come in semi-regularly and she wanted just a double helping of American cheese on white bread. No veggies, no condiments. Just cheese. I never charged her for the extra cheese since I figured the veggies she wasn't getting offset it. Eventually she started asking for more
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    and more cheese until it was easily 10x what came on it. She must have been bummed when I quit. That cheese sandwich probably would have cost about $10 if someone who gave a rang it up.
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  • 25
    Drinkablefeast I worked at a Subway for a couple months after high school. While working there I had a very polite customer, who was pregnant at the time, come in every other week or so and order the same footlong ham sandwich. What made this sandwich so strange was that she would ask for a tonne of black olives. Like MULTIPLE, whole handfuls
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    of black olives. So much, that it was hard to close up and wrap the sandwich without some olives spilling. out. Some of my coworkers would only give her so much before they refused to add more. There were no rules, to my knowledge, stating a limit on the amount of black olives a customer could request, so I always obliged.
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    Knowing this, she would refuse help from my coworkers and wait for me to make her footlong black olive sandwich. She would always comment that it was something she started ordering after becoming pregnant and it was the baby that wanted the olives. Some time had passed where I didn't see her come in anymore. Until one day, I see her walk in with a
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    stroller and her brand new baby daughter. She brought her in so I could meet the "olive baby". She thanked me for all the times I made her olive sandwich just the way she liked it and then proceeded to order a ham sandwich. Only this time, she asked for just a few olives.
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    I quit a short time after but I still think about that sandwich and the olive baby from time to time.
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  • 30
    motorbike-t Not a sandwich shop but: I was a pizza maker for years at a pretty nice restaurant. Think Carrabas but local owned and French trained head chef. Anyway, a buss full of special needs folks. and their helpers came in one day kind of in between lunch and dinner like about 2:30 ish, they all order food and are having a great time.
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    Italian music blasting delicious homemade bread at the table, everyone's having a great time. The order comes to me. Nothing. to memorable except for this one specific pie. "Small cheese pizza, no cheese, no sauce." I check with the server. Yep that's what he requested. No oil, no nothing. So I make it. One beautiful fresh made dough ball expertly tossed and shaped into a small pizza. I
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    stay on top of it in the oven. Popping all the little bubbles that rise up and push them back down flat. It finishes and I cut it into 6 slices. She brings it to the table. The chef wants me to go out and make sure everyone is enjoying their meal. I go. The gentleman eating that unique pizza is ecstatic tells me and the whole restaurant that this is the best pizza he's ever had. And I truly
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    believe he ment it. This was about 20 years ago and I think about that table often. I've cooked and sold thousands of pizzas and that was my most memorable for sure. I hope that guy is doing well and I hope he is still trying all the pizzas this world has to offer.
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  • 34
    Rockatanskyo Worked at Subway, this 50 year old trucker asked me to toast a Tuna sandwich, put extra extra pickles and sprinkle 2 Splenda packages on top, that was all the sandwich had
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    HuntyrS14 Worked at a Subway and a guy ordered a meatball sub, no sauce, but with copious amounts of vinegar. Also worked at Sonic and had multiple times where a lady ordered tomato sandwiches. Just tomatoes and a bun.
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    mr... I haven't worked at Subway for like 15 years but will never forget the regular that came in and wanted a ton of olives and drowned in chipotle. He was a the entire time for no reason so we all got real passive aggressive with him and just did the prescribed 6 olives at a time and three lines of dressing.
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    He'd turn red, call the owner (he bitched enough the manager was told to just have him call the owner) and the owner would just say they're doing it how they're trained and how subway requires. He'd disappear for a month or so then repeat.
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    an... I had to cut extra holes in swiss cheese gor an eight year old. Been the strangest resquest since we opened in 2007.
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    LuxuryGrimalkin Worked at Subway for a couple years back in the day. Strangest order ever: 2 footlong seafood delight (basically imitation crab meat drowned in mayo) subs, double meat, wheat bread, toasted, no toppings. except for heaping amounts. of salt on both. Never saw this customer again.
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    yeslikesoul Worked at a BBQ place that mostly sold sandwiches. I worked the call ahead phones for a while and we had a customer call up and ask us if we could put the entire sandwich combo, sides and all, through a blender. Poor guy had jaw surgery and hadn't eaten anything but fruit smoothies for almost a month. We didn't even OWN a blender
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    but this was one of those "never say no to the customer" places and I could literally get written up for refusing a request. I got my manager on the line who tried his best to explain exactly how grotesque his order was but the guy wouldn't budge. Long story short, we bought a blender.
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    TooShiftyForYou Used to work in a deli that also made some simple breakfast items in the mornings. One day a lady ordered a western omelette, hold the eggs. I had to specify 3 times that she did not want any eggs in the omelette. We made her a salad of diced ham, onions, green bell peppers, with salsa and she seemed pleased with this.
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    Youpunyhumans At mcdonalds a guy came in and said he had lost a bet and as a result had to order a double cheeseburger with 17 extra patties and bacon and cheese between each patty. I dont remember how much it cost, but we had to tape several wrappers together just to cover it up. and keep it sort of together. I think we gave him a knife and fork to eat it with.
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    deadlinft Not a sandwich story, but in high school I worked at the movie theater. This dude asked for extra butter on his popcorn. So I squirted his butter on while giving him the nod, but it wasn't enough. He kept asking for more and I was a little so I just kept going.
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    After the movie, dude walked out and had a massive butter stain in his area on his pants. I was very proud of myself. Another time this dude wanted butter in his crunch bits chocolate box. So I put butter in and watched him drink the butter-chocolate mix.
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    ins... Ok i got a few. Weirdest or at least most disgusting one was this guy who would come in regularly and order a Tuna Pizza. We would literally take the tunal salad and just put a layer of it across the pizza then cover it with cheese and bake it for a few minutes.
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    Holy the smell that would come off of that things was terrible. Another was guy that ordered everything on a footlong. I mean every single kind of meat including like 3 or 4 different types of chicken, steak, meatballs, tuna, all the deli meat, all the cheese toasted, and then adding every single vegetable and condiment we owned. And we didn't skimp
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    on anything, he got exactly how much of each that should be on a footlong so as you can imagine it was literally impossible to fold so we basically just left it open faced and wrapped it in paper. Dude walked out after paying like $60 just for that 1 sandwich. EDIT: Here is a picture of that sub with just the meat and cheese before toasting
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    VOL RODS
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    Last, i had a guy who would basically eat all the black pepper we had in stock. The first time i saw him and we got towards the end of me making his sandwich he was like "i want you to add a lot of black pepper, like just keep on going until you think wow there's no way anyone would want this much black pepper on a sandwich, and then double that. I want you to add so much black pepper to the point that you
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    think its going to be a health concern to actually serve this to me." And well, i'm not one to disappoint so i kept on adding black pepper until he told me to stop and by then end of it i could no longer see any of the meat. that he had on his sandwich, like honestly i had probably. used like a quarter cup of black pepper by the time i finished. After he paid and took his sandwich he told
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    me "you know black pepper is good for your heart?" And to this day i have never looked that up to see if its true but this dude must be so convinced that im going. to just believe him. There's probably more i'm forgetting so i'll edit this comment and come back if i remember anything
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    PLCS-2019 Not a subway employee but I was once standing behind a guy that said "just f- me up with olives" and the woman working behind the counter proceeded to put 2 handfuls on olives on a 6 inch sub and the bloke goes "perfect". Very strange.
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