A R999 pumpkin at Pick n Pay has Mzansi in stitches
A TikTok of a Pick n Pay pumpkin quarter labelled R999.99 has passed 117,000 views, with South Africans joking about Sunday kos and the cost of veggies.
A shopper at Pick n Pay picked up a wrapped quarter of pumpkin and found a price label reading R999.99. TikTok user @mazwide038 filmed it and posted the 13 second clip on 9 November with the caption "No more Sunday kos 😂😭 ama veggie se ayadura" (vegetables are expensive now). It has been watched about 117,000 times and shared more than 1,100 times.
The label reads "Cut Hubbard Quarter", a portion of Hubbard squash, a large winter squash that shops often sell cut and wrapped. Viewers overwhelmingly took the price as a labelling mistake, with the top comment guessing it should have read R9.99. The correct price on the label hasn't been confirmed, and Pick n Pay has not commented on the clip publicly. Briefly also picked up the video.
What the comments are saying
@venetiapegson:
"😂 that was supposed to be R9.99😂😂😂" (618 likes)
@s.ntuli24:
"limited edition" (91 likes)
@mbally298:
"pnp has a problem" (89 likes)
@bongi.makhums.rakabe:
"Pumpkin ya 1tao, yoh go rough 😩😩😂😂" (71 likes)
@chantalvanwyk193:
"It’s ok I’ll have dry bread" (69 likes)
@idkineededaname:
"Its on a special, damn its normally R3.5k" (60 likes)
@dull0boy:
"Does it restore your youth with each bite cause ain't no damn way 😭😭" (36 likes)
@nelsiwe001:
"Mistake bandla😅kuyenzeka" (5 likes)
Video and image: @mazwide038 on TikTok.