Stuff Drawn & Written
on Takeout Boxes

When you're ordering food online, you can put just about anything in the "special instructions" box. Sometimes we ask for drawings, or give weird nicknames in place of our actual names. Here are the results.

Pizza Hut
Cat drawn on a Pizza Hut box.Creepy gnome saying 'special delivery' drawn on a Pizza Hut box.
Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut box with an octopus drawn on it.
Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut box with a bigfoot drawn on it and a request from the staff.
Pizza Hut
An alien drawn on a Pizza Hut box.A robot drawn on a Pizza Hut box.
Thai Fusion
'Dave King of Hearts' written on a crab rangoon wrapper.'Dave King of Hearts' written on a Thai Fusion takeout box.
Thai Fusion
Laura holding her Thai Fusion 'Laura the BARBARIAN!' box.'Erin the Gnome' holding her Thai Fusion box.Dave holding his 'Dave King of Hearts' Thai Fusion box lid.
Jimmy John's
Sandwich bag from Jimmy John's with a dinosaur drawn on it.
Jimmy John's
Sandwiches with our funny nicknames on them.
Jimmy John's
Sandwich bag from Jimmy John's with a spaceship on it.
On the Border
On the Border takeout box with either a rhino or a unicorn drawn on it.On the Border takeout box with either a rabbit or a dog drawn on it.

Lessons Learned

Most places are happy to comply with our fun and random requests. Here are the ones that have been cool so far:

Some places are run by jerks that don't have time to deal with our crap:

Almost Tragedy

For a while, Pizza Hut got rid of the special instructions box. But now it's back, and the drawings are too!