3. A Close Call
Cost estimate: The individual’s sanity
What transpired was that the man confused dog chow for coffee beans.
Getting your coffee fix in the morning is a great method to increase motivation in the wee hours of the day. You can only imagine how shocked this gentleman was to learn that, rather of using real coffee beans, he had brewed his coffee using dog chow.
A Near Miss on Reddit (r/shittyfoodporn)
To his credit, his wife kept the dog food in identical jars right next to the coffee beans. The reasoning for this storage strategy is beyond us. This kind of mishap should have been avoided at the very least with the use of transparent labels, but whatever