That awkward moment when Tesco replaces walnut bread with octopus

Tesco shopper John Goodger received this worrying note with his online order this week.

Somehow staff had deemed an octopus a sufficient substitute for walnut loaf, which was out of stock.

For the avoidance of doubt, this is a walnut loaf:

And this is an octopus (kind of):

And just to be really, really clear:

Meanwhile, Tesco's social media team turned the situation to their advantage with a couple of punning tweets.

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