Okay, we promise not to post anymore stupid receipt stories… unless another one is sent our way that makes us laugh, and then we’ll probably just quicklink it since this post completes the rule of three. A reader ordered a “Supreme Croissant” from Jack in the Box and saw that it was abbreviated in an unfortunate manner on the confirmation screen—and then printed on the receipt too. “When it came up on the ‘confirmation screen’ at the order board, I thought, ‘Gee, there have to be at least three better ways to abbreviate ‘supreme’.'”
I know there’s been a glut of “wacky receipt” stories on Consumerist lately, but I’ve been putting off sending you this until I gave Jack in the Box an opportunity to respond to my question. They didn’t, so here it is.
I sent a message through their website asking if they could look into whether it was a chain-wide thing, or just one restaurant’s guy-who-programs-the-registers having some fun, but aside from an automated response, I haven’t heard back. So now I place it before the you for the amusement of your readers.
Don’t get me wrong – I love JitB and will continue to eat there on a weekly basis, but I can’t help but feel it’s only a matter of time until somebody with a car-full of kids and no sense of humor (I wonder if there’s a causal link there?) gets all worked up about this.
A Google search turned up two other incidences of the “sprm croisnt” abbreviation, one from the same day as this one but a different location (which is odd), and one from 2005. That makes us think that this affects more than one location—like maybe a franchise network run by giggling junior high students. Jack in the Box, what do you have to say for yourself?
(Thanks to Paul!)
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@sburnap42: I needed that laugh before lunch.
Soooo…do these people giggle at the word “harass” too? “Magna cum laude”? The other receipts were cute, and some of these comments here too, but this receipt is just Idiocracy material. I just see four consonants…men need to quit thinking about their jiz so much.
guys u r totes reaching.
also, what happened to morning deals?????
@pestie: It’s on our receipts in New England…I live in Vermont and work in NH…at my store it prints out “Homo Milk”.
When I was in high school I took calculus and analytical geometry, it was appeared on the schedule as cal/anal geometry. It was funny then, but serious this is getting a little old.
At Fred Meyers/Koger’s self checkout, buy Land O Lakes butter and it comes up as LOL Butter.
When I was little my mom would take me to Burger King for Croissamwiches and hash browns on special mornings. I looked at the receipt one time and it said “SM ASH Browns” and I looked in my bag, and yep. They were smashed alright.
What does Jack in the Box have to respond to? The fact that someone can’t understand what they ordered? If you ordered a Supreme Croissant and you saw that on your receipt I think you’d know what it is.
OK – this is prime example with the general problem with people. We’re not responsible for how you interpret things. That’s your emotional and pyschological baggage, not ours. Man-up.
i had a similar pizza experience…
[yetos.com]
“I love JitB and will continue to eat there on a weekly basis,”
I think the real story in this post is, “How fat is this guy/gal?” These crsnts have 450 calories with over half of those coming from fat!
@Raziya:
In some places, Homo Milk is printed right on the carton.