Viraldice: Bizarre Series of Cookbook Covers Featuring Men ‘Helping’ Women Cook Has the Internet Cackling

efore you start cooking any kind of food, it's important to make sure you have everything you'll need. Obviously, you're gonna want to make sure you have all of the ingredients, but equally as important is making sure you have the correct tools to prepare your dish. A colander for straining. A knife for chopping. A man for telling you what to do.

What's that? You don't need a man telling you how to cook? Well then explain these cookbook covers:

Exhibit A.

Veggies? Check.

Knife? Check.

Man showing woman how to chop a pepper? Check.

Exhibit B.

Veggies? Yep!

Knife? You bet!

And look! There he is again. A man showing a woman how to operate a knife.

Exhibit C.

OK, this is getting ridiculous. Where are all of these cookbooks coming from, and why do they have virtually identical bizarre cover layouts?

Mike Rugnetta, creator of the Reasonably Sound podcast, first discovered these three unsettling cookbook covers and posted them on Twitter with the caption, “these poor women.”

But it didn't stop there! Here's round two of cookbooks with basically the exact same cover:

Seriously. What is going on here?

Why are they all Instant Pot cookbooks? Why are they all the same? Do those men actually know how to cook? Do any men actually know how to cook? I’m gonna need some explanations.

Ah, yep. That’ll do it. That explains a lot, actually.

After Rugnetta made the original observation, the tweet quickly went viral as people began sharing their own hilarious interpretations of what’s going on in these images…