Posted on 01/25/2023 3:32:56 PM PST by DFG
The strange saga of the Filipino onion – a humble vegetable transformed into a priceless treasure by a combination of high demand, supply problems, and imbecilic government policies – took another turn on Saturday when blushing bride April Lyka Biorrey walked down the aisle with a bouquet of onions instead of flowers. By all accounts, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
Onions have become so scarce in the Philippines that travelers are returning from overseas with suitcases full of them and black-market smugglers are fighting gang wars for onion turf. To make a long story short, almost every dish in the Philippines uses onions, typhoons damaged domestic onion crops, and the new president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., appointed himself Secretary of Agriculture with disastrous results.
Biorrey, 28, told the Philippine Times on Tuesday she decided onions would make a “practical and unique” alternative to the traditional floral arrangements. Even at today’s elevated prices, the onions cost a bit less than expensive professionally-arranged flowers and the guests could eat them after the ceremony.
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How bout a fried egg veil?
All these weird shortages popping up all over. I’m still trying to figure out how the pandemic got rid of all the sauerkraut...
I had to check if this wasn’t the Babylon Bee.
How would anyone save up enough money for eggs?
In September 2022 Typhoon Karding/Noru blasted one of the principal sources of onions in the Philippines, Nueva Ecija province. The onion crop was ruined. Fields and roads were washed out, hit by landslides, etc.
This was compounded when the government banned onion imports.
Prices have been running at @ $5/lb
I am corrected - last week the government finally allowed onion imports.
A 3.5 pound cabbage is currently $4.52 at Shoprite.
But fresh coleslaw is a necessity - so I'll pay it.
I see masks being worn. Guess that's because of the onions. 🙂
I wonder is she will throw the bouquet and if men will even line up to catch them for their meals. 🙂
Onions have layers.
Damn, is coleslaw impacted too? I love me some good coleslaw.
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Hey, she’s a filipina . . . she loves to cook. Right after the wedding I’m sure she made some onion soup and made a sandwich for her husband.
She’s likely a keeper, like mine. She was with me for 42 years until God told her it was time to come on home. I’m so glad that I’ll see her one day soon because we both know the Lord Jesus Christ, whom to know is life eternal.
I doubt she’ll be making me a sandwich though!
And everyone will want to catch the bouquet.
Gee, it used to be chocolates...
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