We got an empty, completely sealed Coca-Cola with Splenda can today. A careful inspection revealed no holes. The rest in the bunch were perfectly normal.
Anyone else have any stories of products like that?
I got a Coke can like that once. I also got a pencil that had no lead in it. Just a hole all the way down the middle to the eraser. I didn’t realize it right away, I thought I’d broken off the tip in the pencil sharpener, so I kept re-sharpening it and re-sharpening it. I think I got halfway down the shaft until I realized that it was hollow.
I got a box of macaroni and cheese with no cheese once. I looked all over the kitchen, thinking I had just absentmindedly put it down somewhere, but there was actually just none.
This kids had macaroni with spaghetti sauce instead, which they pronounced strangely not good.
This used to happen to my friend. I think if you call the company they’ll send you free Coke.
I once got a can of Coke lacking the yummy CocaCola bit. Tasted kinda like stale salt water.
Yup, happened to my Mother. she got several coupons for free 12 packs.
At McDonald’s, it was not uncommon to have empty packets of ketchup once in a while.
We did have an entire empty case of BBQ sauce packets once, though.
I wonder if that would sell on ebay…
Once got a huge honkin’ stick (twig) in a jar of Vlasic pickles. We returned it with a note. They sent us coupons for three cases of pickles or something like that.
Did the coupons say “please don’t sue us” by any chance? If you had they would have been in a real pickle then arf
Could be worse. WHen studying in Russia, one day I went to the grocery store and picked up a bottle of mineral water. It had a whole, fully grown, dead rat in it. I was so freaked out that I almost dropped it and spilled shards of glass and dead rat everywhere. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how it happened - the rat was much bigger than the mouth of the bottle.
I once bought a tube of lipstick with no lipstick in it. Went out to my car, decided to try it on, discovered the lack of lipstick, went back into the store, found a tube of the same color with lipstick, exchanged it at the customer service desk and left.
Package of Twinings teabags, supposed to be a 50 count packet. About half the paper wrappers were perfectly folded and sealed with no teabags… so I wrote them a polite letter and included all the empty packets and the piece with the run # on it with a suggestion they check the rest of that particular run. I got back that spiffy wooden case that had 10 packets of each tea they made [back in the mid 80s, when they still made the presentation chests, not sure if they still make them or not.] and a dozen coupons for free tea.
I bartend, and I’ve probably found about two dozen empty or half-empty beer bottles in brand-new cases. Sometimes it’s obvious that the cap leaked, because the box shows signs of moisture damage, but sometimes they’re just empty from the brewery.
Sometimes I haven’t noticed til I’ve already served it.
Try serving a half-empty beer. You wanna see a grown man cry?
Almost as bad is heat-damaged Diet Coke; it’s like the asparatame goes bad or something. I remember reading an article about this being a problem in Desert Storm and Iraq. Diet products sat too long on the tarmac before being cooled and stored; it breaks down the asparatame and the soda tastes sour.
There’s a little independent convenience store by my house and I finally just stopped buying Diet Coke there; Mr. Levins and I called it Desert Storm Coke.
Ugh.
On the ceiling…(and the walls, stove, counter, and my mother)
Once my mother was cooking tacos, I was out in the living room and heard my mother yell. Went into the kitchen to see what was wrong, looked up and saw a nice big cresent moon of tomato sauce on the ceiling. When she punctured the can with the can opener, it basically exploded in her face and sauce spewed out of the hole, going everywhere
Mom reported it to the store, who in turn talked to the company, and we got ten $1 off coupons for Hunt’s products. Our tacos that night ended up being plain fried hamburg in shells though.
If you let a half of a case of canned coke sit in your pantry for five or six years you’ll end up with several empty cans. I did anyway.
I once got an empty soda can from a machine–I got a refund from the store where the machine was, but never thought to report it to the manufacturer. Too bad!
I bought some cans of Underwood Chicken Salad that had no pull ring. I was able to open them with a can opener, no problem, but I thought I’d call and let them know that they might have an entire shipment out there like that. They sent me several coupons for free cans, even though I told them I’d been able to open the others. 'Twas nice of them, I thought!
I plan to write Coca-Cola and tell them how much I like the new Diet Coke with Splenda (I really do–much, MUCH better than the aspartame version, IMO). I hope they’ll pony up some coupons! 
My grandmoter once got a can of Coca-Cola that had the little concave bottom on both sides of the can. No pop top at all. There was soda in it though. She kept it as a souviner (sp?).
I’ve got a can of cat food sitting in my cabinet that is empty. I intend to take it to the local pre-K class for their pretend grocery store but I keep forgetting.
Years ago, I got an empty Kool-aid packet and received several coupons for free Kool-aid in return. It seems to be the standard response.