Faux Onions

We’ve been noticing lately –  yellow onions from the grocery store.  You get your gear out and start peeling but……no tears!  Barely a puny sniffle.  They look like onions; the artsy ones that appear Still-Life-like on the covers of high end cooking mags.  But when it comes to aroma and flavor, they are poor substitutes for the onions of only a few months ago that you loved to peel when you had a good snit on because of the cleansing cry you could generate without even having to slam a door.