You gotta love stories about people ordering takeaways that are screwed up because they’re basically such non events – yeah it’s annoying, but just get them to redeliver it and give you some credit – but you still get some numpties going to the newspapers and doing photoshoots because of them.

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The first of these in 2023 is a guy from Norwich called Steve Hunt. He had ordered a 30 piece KFC bucket to share with his family – wife Syreeta and sons Myro, 15, and Sonny, 12 – to celebrate his new job as a wellbeing coordinator, but sadly only three pieces turned up alongside a bottle of orange juice that he hadn’t ordered. Oh no!

Here’s what he had to say about his ordeal:

I had just got a new job and we were celebrating with a KFC.

Me, my wife and the boys – Myro, 15, and Sonny, 12 – were starving and our mouths were watering at the prospect of a delivery from the Colonel.

When it arrived, my wife, Syreeta, shouted from the kitchen asking why I had ordered just for myself.

I went through and looked at the bucket – which has three bits of chicken in it and a couple of burnt scraps.

I went to open the bag and all that was there was a tiny bottle of orange juice, which we hadn’t even ordered.

Colonel Sanders has really let us down – this has got to be the worst culinary miscarriage of justice of all time.

Steve apparently attempted to contact KFC and Deliveroo but both insisted that the order had been delivered and accepted, so the family instead were forced to to order a McDonalds instead. They were later given £50 of credit by Deliveroo, so again it hardly seems like the end of the world for these guys does it?

Yeah sure, I get that it’s annoying that you order KFC and it doesn’t turn up, but they’ve just ordered some other food and then Deliveroo have said sorry and pretty much paid for their new meal and given them another one by way of apology. No need to do this stupid photoshoot for your local paper mate. Grow up. Hope your 2023 gets better!

For more of the same, check out when this KFC customer discovered chicken brains in her meal. Rank.