A Sydney pub has come under fire after a local man shared a ‘meal fail’ that’s divided thousands.
The video, posted by Sydney-based student Louis, has racked up more than 780,000 views in just a few days after he revealed what happened when he decided to treat himself during a casual dinner at his local.
In the clip, Louis explains he ordered garlic bread, asking to upgrade it with cheese.
But instead of receiving the warm, melty, pub-style mozzarella-laden snack most are used to, he was served something else entirely.
‘I just got garlic bread from the pub,’ he told viewers.
‘I wanted to add cheese, you know spice my life up a little. Add a bit of mozzarella, I hoped, maybe really spread it around.
‘But instead, they just put sliced cheese on it.’
The camera then pans to the meal showing a slice of garlic bread with a perfectly square, bright yellow slice of processed cheese melting on top.
A Sydney pub has come under fire after a local man shared his shocking meal fail that has stunned thousands online over a humble slice of garlic bread
Sydney student Louis went viral after sharing his garlic bread fail. A casual pub order for cheesy garlic bread turned into a surprise when it arrived topped with processed sliced cheese instead of the usual molten mozzarella.
‘Charming pub meal has blessed me today, thank you!’ Louis captioned his now-viral post after revealing to Daily Mail that he’d spent $9 on the side-dish and an extra $2 to add cheese.
Naturally, the comments section exploded with hundreds weighing in with their thoughts of the pub’s hilarious faux pas.
‘How can you ruin cheesy garlic bread?’ one baffled viewer wrote.
‘That’s the worst cheesy garlic bread in Australia. Very un-pub like. They need to be closed down,’ another said, slamming the pub’s culinary creativity.
While a third compared it to their own restaurant horror story: ‘Reminds me of the time I ordered honey chicken, and it was just chicken nuggets cut in half with honey on top.’
‘Lowkey looks good though,’ one user admitted, being slightly more forgiving.
But most agreed that the real crime wasn’t the cheese itself, but the cost.
‘And I know they charged you an extra $2-$4 for that cheese too!’ a commenter said, summing up the shared national pain of paying more for less.
Naturally, the comments section exploded with hundreds weighing in with their thoughts of the pub’s hilarious faux pas
While the pub in question hasn’t been named, the video has reignited debate about the state of Aussie pub classics, with many viewers demanding that garlic bread should never be messed with.
A similar experience happened earlier this year in Melbourne for young female diner Chloe Joyce, who fumed after shelling out $31 for a classic pub dish that included plain chunks of lettuce as a side salad.
Chloe ordered a chicken parmigiana at Hawthorn Hotel, in Melbourne’s east.
The meal was served with fries and a house salad that is automatically included with all the main dishes, but what came out shocked her and her friends to the core.
‘Is this not the most pathetic ‘house salad’ you’ve ever seen at the pub?’ she said in the TikTok clip.
In a similar video, posted to TikTok this year was Chloe Joyce, who ordered a chicken parma at a Melbourne pub, which was served with fries and a house salad that included strips of cos lettuce (pictured)
The popular pub dish, which is served at the Hawthorn Hotel (pictured), in Melbourne’s east, costs a whopping $31
‘The Hawthorn Hotel… what are you thinking?’
The clip showed several strips of cos lettuce topped with a pickled onion.
‘If I wanted lettuce I would go to Woolworths,’ Ms Joyce said.
Hundreds of commenters were also left unimpressed by the side dish.
‘That looks so sad,’ one wrote.
‘That’s an insult to salad,’ another wrote.
‘The sad onion makes it so much funnier,’ a third added.
Others suggested salads are not worth having with food served at a pub.
‘Does anyone actually eat their salad that comes with a pub meal though? Mine always ends up being left on the plate,’ one wrote.
Some defended the dish and said most pubs provide side salads.
‘I love the Hawthorn Hotel salad. Please don’t change it,’ one person wrote.
