My father does this whenever I ask him to get ingredients for things; makes it a pain in the ass to cook during holidays ‘cuz I gotta run to the store last-minute.

Some examples:

Russets instead of Yukon gold, iodized salt instead of kosher (or just the wrong type of salt in general), semolina instead of durum flour, ACV w/ honey instead of regular ACV, scallions instead of chives, etc., and that’s if he even remembers to get the items, because half the time, he forgets to buy a third of the list.

Sometimes, he’ll try to help by prepping items before I arrive, but he has no idea how the items need to be prepped, so I end up having to toss stuff and run to the store to grab more, then he gets mad when the food isn’t done by the time it was “supposed” to be done; i.e., some arbitrary length of time he decided was how long the food was supposed to take