The Malaysian Government’s decision to allow only “the head of the family” to leave the house to shop as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak has backfired – with men left baffled by the need to suddenly distinguish between varieties of vegetables, spices and herbs, the BBC reports.
“Govt allowing a man to shop unsupervised? Disaster,” wrote one woman on Twitter.
Several men agreed however, sharing their ‘suffering’ on social media.
A Facebook post of three men studying pieces of paper in a supermarket aisle has gone viral, being shared more than 30,000 times, with the poster Muzaffar Rahman saying the shopping felt like “a treasure hunt” with everyone checking their lists several times.
Muzaffar said he was impressed his wife had listed items according to the supermarket layout though (naturally).
“I felt dizzy trying to work out which were mustard greens, which spinach, and which pak choi,” another husband wrote. “Then there were many kinds of cabbages – the long ones, the round, the short.”
One man said he had asked to buy a piece of galangal and returned with 1kg of it: “The stare of death the missus gave is unforgettable”.
Another said he had no trouble with the shopping list – until faced with the range of sanitary pads on offer.
They have no sympathy from us though. Women have been making the choice between Libra and Stayfree for years – you can too.
