Was that a hallucination? Did anyone else see it?
The other day at the Safeway I went to buy a couple of yellow onions. Bounced off the onion bin like it had a forcefield around it. They wanted 99 cents apiece!
A dollar for an onion? One ordinary yellow onion?
Really? Really????
So I walked around the bin to see if they had any smaller, punier numbers they might be trying to get rid of. Found one narrow shelf that at one time had these, which the Safeway was peddling for 49 cents apiece. All the half-dollar onions were gone but two, each of which was bruised and starting to rot.
I could not freaking believe it.
So left the Safeway onionless, figuring to pick up some onions at a more reasonable price at one of the ethnic markets. My schedule being what it is, though, of course I never made it to Lee Lee’s or El Rancho. The larder is empty of onion.
Maybe I should plant some in the back yard. Wonder if they’ll grow here in the winter?
You can’t make this stuff up.
Try Fresh & Easy – you can buy a bag of onions for $.98 (I’m in Phoenix too). That’s where I buy mine. It isn’t a big bag but it usually has 4 or so onions in each bag.
Buy onions when on sale–chop and freeze. Or caramelize in slow cooker and freeze. Additionally, I always have a bag of frozen chopped onions for emergencies.
Anyway, a one dollar onion isn’t that big a deal. Hope you bought the grapes on killer sale while you were there–that would have made up for the onion.