A couple of days ago, the servant forbade all women from the office to touch the big jar of mango pickle. Without using many words the reason was given as such: when a woman is menstruating she is impure. This will cause the pickle to go bad soon. Since it was such a big jar, the servant didn't want to take any risk. He said: "the pickle had gone bad before here, there must have been some woman touching it".
Ok, I am culturally sensitive, the servant is not very well educated and this superstition is historically and hygienically explainable but there are two weird things:
- We are not menstruating the whole month, so why can we never touch it?
- Today I asked the servant to give me some pickle and he asked me to give him a spoon, as I was standing closer to the cutlery. So I touched the spoon which he used to go into the pickle jar, and he didn't object.
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