"He Didn't Even Try" — Women Are Sharing Their Husband's Feeble Attempts to Put Away Food

Brooke Flaherty Mendoza (@thechildishhbambino) posted a viral TikTok that's accrued over 5.6 million views on the popular social media platform where she outed her husband's way of storing rolls in the refrigerator — and her post was painfully relatable to several other folks who said that they, too, have dealt with significant others who think that storing their grub "commando style" in the fridge is okay.

"My husband put away the leftover rolls away last night.. I didn't even have to ask," she writes in her video, followed up with a happy cry emoji.

The clip begins with her standing in front of the refrigerator, and then she walks to the appliance to crack open the door and reveal how he put the rolls away.

The video then cuts to her opening it up and right smack dab in the middle of the fridge are a couple of rolls stacked on top of one another. Just plain, bare rolls, in the middle of the fridge.

She zooms in on the rolls as the tune of Billie Eilish's eerily depressing track "What Was I Made For?" plays in the background. The camera then transitions to an image of a wall — she Brooke launches one of the rolls to the wall and it bounces off and back onto the floor.

The clip then cuts to her attempting to eat one of the rolls and she has difficulty even attempting to bite through it. She makes a face into the camera before the video ultimately cuts out.

Brooke's post became massively popular, with major brands like Ziploc, American Eagle, and Kroger leaving remarks of their own in the comments section of her video.

There were also throngs of people who took issue with the fact that her husband thought it would be a good idea to put away their rolls in such a fashion: "That is what we call weaponized incompetence," one person said, referencing a dynamic in relationships where some people intentionally do a bad job with particular chores in the hopes of getting out of having to ever do them again.

Another said it was videos like Brooke's that feature significant others who don't use proper means of storage to put away food that have influenced their decision to not search for a significant other: "I have a saved folder on tiktok labeled 'reasons to stay single' this made the cut why are they all this way?!"

"ladies it's okay to be alone," someone else penned.

There were also throngs of other TikTokers who shared their own stories about leftovers in relationships: "My husband brought me a slice of cake from a work party in his dirty spaghetti Tupperware," they wrote.

Another shared their own example of incompetent husbandry when they asked their significant other to place baby wipes inside of their purse: "I asked my husband to put baby wipes in my purse. He literally put 3 wipes loose in my purse. Yeah dried out wipes will help with a blowout."

Someone else replied: "Lol mine put a lil napkin over it"

Another TikTok user said that they were losing kitchen utensils as a result of their own husband's "weaponized incompetence," writing, "My hubby took the whole rice pot to work bc he couldn’t find a lid to his container. I never saw the pot again"

From the sounds of some people's stories, the concept of removing the contents of one container and then transferring it to another container, is a foreign concept to many people's partners: "I asked my husband to put the food in the crockpot in the fridge. He put the entire crockpot in the, electrical chord and all, in the fridge."

For others who replied to Brooke's video, the anger has more to do with not understanding the consequences behind not taking a few extra steps to properly store things, a point that several people said they would demonstrate to their significant others in similar ways.

"That’s when you serve them like that and wait for him to ask what’s wrong with them," one wrote. Which is an idea someone else had, who said: "I’m so petty I would serve these with dinner to him and ask what the issue was with them"

Very Well Mind writes that oftentimes, relationship strife between two people who share a living space can often stem from a non-commensurate sharing of chores: "An uneven distribution of chores can cause tension and resentment in a relationship," the piece states.

The outlet does add: "there are steps you can take to create a more equitable household. Talk about what needs to be done with your partner and devise a plan that each person feels is fair. Tasks don't need to be divided perfectly down the middle, but it is important that each person feels that the tasks are shared in a way that is equitable to each person."