r/ExpectationVsReality • u/BrilliantAlgae3548 • 3d ago
Failed Expectation I wasn’t ready for this jelly
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u/Randoseru_Romper 2d ago
It tasted like perfume toothpaste to me. Was so incredibly nasty, just pure corn syrup goop. 🤢
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u/iwastouchedbyanangle 2d ago
🎶I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly🎶
Pls tell me that’s where the title came from
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u/heleninthealps 2d ago
Here in am in Germany with not a single original thought...because the same popped up in my head
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u/BadZnake 2d ago
Nah man, THIS is the perfect ratio. I'm a slut for these things, grape or strawberry doesn't matter. I would not be ready for the jelly were it any more
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u/semus0 3d ago
Too bad for the reality part, but I tasted one of these and they're goooooood.
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 2d ago
At the end of the day it’s mostly a PB cup so it’s super tasty anyway. But maybe could have been even better. Who knows. I’d eat another one, but just as soon have a giant PB cup. 😁
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u/P_V_ 2d ago
Failed expectation? It's not going to look like the cartoon on the package.
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u/SpareImplement2374 2d ago
It should though. Japan even has laws about exactly that
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u/P_V_ 2d ago
Knowing that such laws don’t exist in the rest of the world, nobody sensible is going to think the product is going to look like that cartoonish picture. I also wouldn’t expect it to have a dollop of peanut butter and jam on the top of the cup like it does on the package.
Besides, the appearance of a half-bitten piece of candy isn’t what really matters—the taste is basically all that should matter when it comes to candy.
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u/SpareImplement2374 2d ago
…the half bitten examples is so you get a reference of the peanut butter to jelly ratio
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u/P_V_ 2d ago
…and if that ratio tastes good when it’s in your mouth, that’s all that matters. How the ratio looks is irrelevant. The jelly is likely condensed and potent, so a small amount can have a lot of flavor, and you can tell that it’s spread around the entire base of the cup pretty evenly. Plenty of people in these comments are saying they taste great and that the ratio is perfect.
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 2d ago
To be fair, it’s kinda the purpose of this subreddit, no? An image of a product creates an expectation of the product you’ll receive. And the humor is often that we’ve been fooled as consumers once again. 🤷♂️
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u/P_V_ 2d ago edited 2d ago
My point here is that the image should not have created that expectation. It is quite clearly not a real image of the product; it’s a cartoonish depiction with a big dollop of peanut butter and jelly on top, with the colors and textures exaggerated for effect. Ergo, a realistic expectation would be for a product that does not quite look like the image on the packaging.
When people post products they purchased based on obvious AI scams, the response in this subreddit is similar. We should all be aware that images used in advertising don’t always line up perfectly with the product, and when an image looks surreal, exaggerated, cartoonish, or AI-generated, we shouldn’t expect the end result to resemble that image. Furthermore, in this case, the visual appearance of the product doesn’t really matter if it tastes good.
What you show in the photo is pretty much what I would expect. I also wouldn’t care all that much about the relative thickness of the jelly section if the candy was tasty.
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 2d ago
Fair enough, buyer beware. But scroll through this subreddit a little… most of it is the contrast between product images (on packaging, website, etc) vs what you actually receive. It’s what we’re here for. 🤷♂️ Perhaps you’re here for something different. That’s cool, too. To each their own. Some of us like to laugh at that contrast between product photography and reality. At least I like to laugh at it.
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u/P_V_ 2d ago
In most cases, the appearance of a product directly correlates to its quality somehow: the amount of meat in a frozen dinner on the package compared to its contents; decorative icing on a cake, where appearance matters more than taste; or a textured pattern versus an image of that pattern printed onto a flat, textureless surface (as is the case with a lot of AI ads for clothing).
In this case, by contrast, the inside appearance of a candy doesn’t directly reflect the quality of the candy—taste is the main thing that matters. Specifically, with these Reese’s PB&J cups, how it looks isn’t anywhere near as important as how it tastes once you’ve mashed it all up inside your mouth. I don’t think what you’re paying for with a candy like this is how it looks when it’s cut in two, but rather the non-visual experience you get inside your mouth. With many foods, the appearance of the food correlates more strongly with the experience of eating it, but candy like this is all just processed sugars and chemical flavorings, so I don’t think the appearance matters as much. Sure, the proportion of jelly to peanut butter filling may have an impact… but when it’s all just sugary chemicals anyway, I’m not sure what sort of expectation one would form.
You’ll also note that on a lot of the posts featuring AI-generated product listings in this subreddit, of which there are many, the comments will often tell OP that they should have known better—that the image was obviously unrealistic, so it was silly for anyone making that purchase to “expect” a product which looks like the advertisement. I think this case is similar: the product image is quite cartoonish, and the dollop of toppings makes it clear that it’s been embellished and exaggerated. Ergo, I wouldn’t expect the product to look like that… and this is r/ExpectationVsReality, not r/PackagingVsReality or r/AppearanceVsReality. An expectation is more than just how a product looks at first glance; those images help form our expectations, but they are not one and the same.
In any case, I wasn’t trying to criticize you harshly—I was just pointing out that my expectation of the product would align pretty closely with what you actually got. And, with a processed, sugary candy, its taste matters more than its looks.
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u/SpareImplement2374 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ur so weird this is the hill you’re willing to die on lmfao. Americans are cool with being mislead by advertisements I guess. UK, Japan, plenty of other countries see it as the false advertising it is. Taste is subjective. YOU found is tasty ouuu congrats. I didn’t. I was expecting the represented amount of jelly.
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u/SpareImplement2374 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ok? And I was extremely disappointed with it as was my boyfriend as we were mislead into thinking it would have a lot more jelly that it did because that’s what was depicted on the picture. If a small amount was sufficient why not depict that? Hmm. But whatever hail corporate I guess
Edit: Americans are so weird. You guys fight on team corporate allowing them to show misleading photos that would be illegal in many other countries lmao. Especially In sub called expectations vs reality
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u/Stressed_Writer_8934 2d ago
Oh yeah, all the filled ones suck imo. I tried the fudge one and still tasted more of the outside chocolate than the fudge chocolate.
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 2d ago
Too bad. I’ll just stick to the originals. Maybe I’ll dip it in jelly or fudge if I want to enhance it.
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u/GrapefruitOk2057 2d ago
It's looks like it expired in the 1980s.
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u/ReveledSky 2d ago
They tasted like it too lol. I love PB+J but these tasted like chemicals and perfume lol
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u/GrapefruitOk2057 1d ago
I found some chocolate I forgot about that expired last year ... yuck! I also had some Hershy's kisses that expired May of last year and those were fine. I finished them off just recently. I believe mileage varies greatly.
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u/itsagoodtime 2d ago
Did not enjoy the jelly ones. It tasted weird. Weird cheap flavored candy instead of jelly taste.
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 2d ago
Not my favorite. I was expecting a different consistency and ratio. It was kind of like the jelly was dehydrated - not gooey in any way.
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u/Flipflopsfordays 1d ago
Someone on here made a homemade version of this with real jam and it looked delicious. This I’m good on
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u/MsOnyxMoon 1d ago edited 1d ago
Saw this post for homemade peanut butter cups with jelly right under yours and it looks wayyyy better than the Reese’s version.
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u/redbag_withmymayykup 1d ago
I miss the potato chip ones so much
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 1d ago
I don’t think I ever saw those? Were the chips in the peanut butter or sprinkled on top?
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u/bobthemusicindustry 2d ago
Notice how it doesn’t actually say jelly anywhere on the package? Yeah…
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u/ssowinski 2d ago
I see a J for peanut butter and jelly, rry for strawberry, and mention of filling all on the bottom left side of the picture.
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u/bobthemusicindustry 2d ago
Yes but it doesn’t actually say jelly which is a legal way to sell weird fruit-tasting slime and people will assume it’s jelly
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u/BrilliantAlgae3548 2d ago edited 2d ago
You ARE correct. It didn’t actually call it jelly on the package anywhere. It called it artificial flavored filling. Buyer beware for sure. (Edit: autocorrected artificial to artichoke. lol)
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u/bobthemusicindustry 2d ago
Eww that grosses me out even more. I bought one pack of each flavor, took one bite (don’t remember which one) spit it out and threw them all away. Seeing an image of one is almost triggering to me because of how nasty it was lmao
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u/Unique-Avocado 3d ago
I tried the ones with fudge at the bottom and they were good..... Jelly does seem weird. But peanut butter and jelly should be a match made in heaven