15 Times When The Expectation Did Not Meet Reality

Life doesn't always go as expected. It's best practice to never get your hopes up, honestly, because a lot of the time things just don't work out. Sometimes we get super excited for something and then when it turns out to not be so good, it's really disappointing for everyone involved. There have been many times in life where expectations didn't meet reality, and those times seem to happen a lot with products.

Everyone sees those ads for the new fast food item, and everyone knows it won't be as good as pictured, but everyone orders it anyway, for some reason. It's actually kind of impressive how far off some of these things are from their expected photos on the ad or the box, shockingly so. It isn't just fast food, either. Menu items, frozen meals, and other products have been offenders of these disappointing crimes as well. Reddit's /r/expectationvsreality is a subreddit made for people to share their most disappointing moments in life, as a way to warn others of the sad times that are to be had. Here are just 15 of those major fails that people were not expecting.