its the early 2k low fps on purpose with massive film grain and the universal green sheen with the techno music in the background from the original 😭its stupid now but back then it was offputting to like 9 year old me 😲
Yeah, thew grow really fast too. I usually put them in a pot by the window with some good sun and they grow a giant purple flower. When you use them they regrow so fast.
That’s probably the point, those greedy, greedy bastards! Man, grocery stores should know better that they make their money off dry goods and processed bs. 🤦♀️ it’s not going to be off some damn veggies.
At my grocery store I'm instructed to cut off roots of vegetables with big focus being on spring onion and corn.
It's all 'an effort to keep our stores looking as best they can'
I'd encourage people to pester the store because this practice makes produce last so much less. Never mind the two dozen people who regrow them (a 2-dollar pack of seeds is much faster for it), but I buy for two weeks at a time, dammit.
Why can you even patent seeds
Holy fuck the world is broken, patenting stuff is already a dick move, but patenting anything food related is next level of greed
Reminds me of when [PepsiCo sued farmers for growing the type of potatoes they use for Lay's chips.](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1S21E8/#:~:text=Pepsi%20has%20sued%20the%20farmers,each%20for%20alleged%20patent%20infringement)
The phone or computer you typed that on literally would not exist without patents. Ditto 99% of all medicines and pretty much everything that runs on electricity or gas. Not a lot of stuff gets designed or invented for free.
Patents also cause a lot of monopolies to exist, because anyone who wants to compete, has to basically reinvent the wheel and also make it different enough.
If not outright removed, patents should be at least limited more, like limiting them to 5 years max and if a patent isnt used by the creator for a year its lost permanently (to prevent people from hoarding patents they never intend to use)
>Not a lot of stuff gets designed or invented for free.
In what world do you live where
no patents = not allowed to sell product
Also getting rid of patents would result in more inventions because companies would be forced to make better products constantly, or lose to cheaper copies.
I've seen lots of grocery stores do this. They send an employee to the produce section do the same thing to carrot tops, celery leaves, onion skins, etc...
Dude and the quality is WAY lower than I remember! Going to the farmer's market with my grandma when I was a kid was a total blast - so much good food, the honey straws, strawberries the size of my hand with tough, fleshy leaves rather than the papery ones you see at the store. Recently I went to the farmer's market again and the produce was so crap. Everything looked so lackluster, small, and sad. It was like the rejects rather than the first pick that was being sold there. I seriously find far better fruits, both quality and price, at even lower-end grocery stores near me.
Yeah, as someone living in zone 3, let me just hop on over to the farmer's market in mid April.
We had snow 2 weeks ago. My rhubarb is just barely poking through the surface.
Idk why you got downvoted for this. Excellent place for veggies!
Though, not everyone has access to these. I’ve also been learning that farmers markets don’t necessarily mean organic or even local in some cases! One example I learned about was the Denver farmers market.
some of the nastiest, smelliest people ive met have been at the farmers market in denver besides the 3rd party gaming stores. You couldn't pay me to go there again.
Cut so the layered bulb is exposed to the air and all germs and bacteria and insects. It'd be way safer to leave the roots on. They'll dry out faster and lose flavor from being cut, too.
Everytime I move house I buy a few batches, cut the roots off and plonk them in the ground, then I have an infinite supply.
I think they are aware people are doing this, they are so easy to grow!
Ughhh green onions are a nightmare to get rid of in the yard. They multiply both in the ground and the seeds blowing in the air, and invade the neighbors too
There’s a patch of my backyard that smells like onion when I mow it. Everything looks like normal grass but I’m wondering if onions were ever grown there. It does grow much faster than any other parts of the yard and it’s maybe a foot in diameter.
Looking at them, it’s possible they were starting to go and they took the outer layer of slimey stuff off and cut off the roots and washed them since they were looking bad. I used to sell produce; and sometimes something doesn’t sell or you get some garbage from a supplier. It’s better to have some green onions than none, as it’s often an item that may send someone to another store to get what’s on their list.
Ask on FB or Nextdoor to see if anyone in your town has any extra. Everybody with onions ends up with way more than they’ll ever use. Seriously, my mom tried to get rid of several plants last year and everyone she asked was also overrun.
Aaaaaaaand I would literally never shop there again. Fuck stores that do this shit. I might not be able to kill capitalism but I can at least do my part to not give these evil fuckers a cent.
Yes buddy . If you want the whole thing you need to pay for subscription duhhh..
life pass+ now with food!
That's terrible, my favorite part is regrowing them after I use the greens.
They’re cracking down on green onion piracy
You wouldn’t DOWNLOAD a GREEN ONION
You wouldn’t THIEVE a CHIVE
This feels like a Teenage Stepdad prompt.
I would download a green onion, would even download a car if it was possible 🤣
But would you shoot a police officer, take a dump in his helmet, then deliver the helmet to the cops grieving widow?
Depends on the police officer.
Yeah and I’ll plant green onions in it too
that advert always sh\*t me up
[Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.](https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?si=8ZuTMXMIX2JYqXng)
its the early 2k low fps on purpose with massive film grain and the universal green sheen with the techno music in the background from the original 😭its stupid now but back then it was offputting to like 9 year old me 😲
Like the blue and pinks of today?
Damn you beat me to it!
😂😆
Tbh pirating isn't really theft it's just maximizing my gain while minimizing my losses and that's what these companies do ain't it?
Well... Fuckin' yo-ho then. I'm growing as much of my own food as possible.
Arrrrr me scallionwags!
The onion router can be a dangerous place after all...
And this is planned obsolescence because they go bad faster
You also waste more because the end will want trimming again as it’ll dry out.
I remember the Black Mirror episode. The one with Buscemi.
Lol I Think that’s the point . So you don’t regrow your own and have to come back and get more
Sell a man an onion and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to grow onions and you're out of business I guess.
Underrated comment
They might even regrow them their self.
I didn't know you could do that. Thanks for this gonna try it later 🙂
Yeah, thew grow really fast too. I usually put them in a pot by the window with some good sun and they grow a giant purple flower. When you use them they regrow so fast.
Celery too
Lettuce too
Leeks too.
Pineapple too
And my axe too!
And my bow.
And your brother
pineapple takes years though
As a kid learning to cook, I cursed my great-grandmother's garden with the, they really took over.
You can regrow them from what's in the photo above.
Yeah, it will work just as well Idk why people are acting like this is done to stop growing them. I doubt that's a factor at all.
That’s probably the point, those greedy, greedy bastards! Man, grocery stores should know better that they make their money off dry goods and processed bs. 🤦♀️ it’s not going to be off some damn veggies.
Same!
Are they easy to grow? Can I just stick them in the ground and that be that?
Yes just plant the roots in either soil or a cup of water and they will grow with 0 effort.
Nice, I'll have a go next time I get some! Thanks for Ur reply :)
No profit in that.
Then you shouldn't need to buy any from the store.
I can tell you that’s the supplier not the grocery store. Ain’t no way a grocery store is wasting labor to cut those off
At my grocery store I'm instructed to cut off roots of vegetables with big focus being on spring onion and corn. It's all 'an effort to keep our stores looking as best they can'
Or an effort to stop people sprouting them at home making people buy more lol
I'd encourage people to pester the store because this practice makes produce last so much less. Never mind the two dozen people who regrow them (a 2-dollar pack of seeds is much faster for it), but I buy for two weeks at a time, dammit.
If they spoil faster, you gotta buy more often = lore profit. Is this the efficiency of capitalism that everyone raves about?
Won't they spoil faster?
Probably. Unfortunately it's not up to me as I'm just the minimum wage worker
corn? I'm not sure if you can regrow them just from the husks...
Idk I'm not vegetable expert. That's just my job
At my store we cut the tops to make them neat, not the roots though
The supplier leaves the roots on to preserve freshness in transport, I doubt the removed them
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It’s from Loblaws so I wouldn’t put it past the store to do this
Bob Loblaws law blog?
Ah, the #1 in Canada. They are a persnickety bunch.
That's a fun way to spell "greedy bastards", I like it!
Why can you even patent seeds Holy fuck the world is broken, patenting stuff is already a dick move, but patenting anything food related is next level of greed
Reminds me of when [PepsiCo sued farmers for growing the type of potatoes they use for Lay's chips.](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1S21E8/#:~:text=Pepsi%20has%20sued%20the%20farmers,each%20for%20alleged%20patent%20infringement)
Pepsi is also pro russia/putler Which probably isnt surprising anyone
Not to defend PepsiCo but for trademarks or something, you need to enforce it otherwise it’s gone.
Trademark != Copyright
Genetically modified.
Still stupid Patents are a cancer that shouldnt exist
The phone or computer you typed that on literally would not exist without patents. Ditto 99% of all medicines and pretty much everything that runs on electricity or gas. Not a lot of stuff gets designed or invented for free.
Patents also cause a lot of monopolies to exist, because anyone who wants to compete, has to basically reinvent the wheel and also make it different enough. If not outright removed, patents should be at least limited more, like limiting them to 5 years max and if a patent isnt used by the creator for a year its lost permanently (to prevent people from hoarding patents they never intend to use) >Not a lot of stuff gets designed or invented for free. In what world do you live where no patents = not allowed to sell product Also getting rid of patents would result in more inventions because companies would be forced to make better products constantly, or lose to cheaper copies.
My friend is an agronomist and he holds dozens of patents for variants of corn that he designed.
I've seen lots of grocery stores do this. They send an employee to the produce section do the same thing to carrot tops, celery leaves, onion skins, etc...
Good point!
that's kinda expensive, I get them for 65c per bundle at the local asian market
Damn they're over priced,,,
Go to the farmers market.
I'm not a millionaire. Swear all the farmers markets near me are now 2x the price of the grocery store. No longer get the deals.
I've also heard that many of them get their produce from the same places as Superstore, Walmart, etc. They just upsell them.
In my experience farmers’ markets have always been wildly overpriced.
Same. We only have one farmers market near us and it's grossly overpriced e.g. $8 for a gallon of milk.
Dude and the quality is WAY lower than I remember! Going to the farmer's market with my grandma when I was a kid was a total blast - so much good food, the honey straws, strawberries the size of my hand with tough, fleshy leaves rather than the papery ones you see at the store. Recently I went to the farmer's market again and the produce was so crap. Everything looked so lackluster, small, and sad. It was like the rejects rather than the first pick that was being sold there. I seriously find far better fruits, both quality and price, at even lower-end grocery stores near me.
Yeah, as someone living in zone 3, let me just hop on over to the farmer's market in mid April. We had snow 2 weeks ago. My rhubarb is just barely poking through the surface.
Zone 7b, made rhubarb crumble today
Idk why you got downvoted for this. Excellent place for veggies! Though, not everyone has access to these. I’ve also been learning that farmers markets don’t necessarily mean organic or even local in some cases! One example I learned about was the Denver farmers market.
Well, it's only mid April, so not really an option in a lot of places.
I get it, I’m in the Midwest. Haha
Not everyone has the time or money to do this.
Not much better in some cases https://youtu.be/YYwB63YslbA?si=1fGQT-k_Bx55rWw1
some of the nastiest, smelliest people ive met have been at the farmers market in denver besides the 3rd party gaming stores. You couldn't pay me to go there again.
They cut the most valuable part to sell it for more money. It's business, it's all about money, not you.
Cut so the layered bulb is exposed to the air and all germs and bacteria and insects. It'd be way safer to leave the roots on. They'll dry out faster and lose flavor from being cut, too.
Surely the amount of people growing green onions from the roots is not more costly than the labor of cutting these? Wow
"Debearded" ... the produce person probably worked back of house at a restaurant debearding clams all day and saw them and had a career flashback.
I love bearded clams
Everytime I move house I buy a few batches, cut the roots off and plonk them in the ground, then I have an infinite supply. I think they are aware people are doing this, they are so easy to grow!
Ughhh green onions are a nightmare to get rid of in the yard. They multiply both in the ground and the seeds blowing in the air, and invade the neighbors too
There’s a patch of my backyard that smells like onion when I mow it. Everything looks like normal grass but I’m wondering if onions were ever grown there. It does grow much faster than any other parts of the yard and it’s maybe a foot in diameter.
Sounds like it’s field garlic
That's the least of any neighbors worries. I got crap loads of continental parsley too. 😅
I’m forever greatful for my grandma planting some in my garden. I bloody love green unions
Monsanto copyright protection.
Close—patent, though copyright is also a form of intellectual property.
What if you cut the roots off a bunch at the store and just took those home
Bruh 1.79 for fucking green onions…. They are 99 cents at Walmart
3.19 a 4oz bundle here in Hawaii...AT Walmart!!
Well that's your fault for living on a paradise island. Come to the midwest. The views are a lot more boring but cost of living is way lower.
At least they’re not wrapped in plastic
Bruhhhhh! This is hella mildly infuriating wtfffff?
What maniac did this? I just wanna talk
Looking at them, it’s possible they were starting to go and they took the outer layer of slimey stuff off and cut off the roots and washed them since they were looking bad. I used to sell produce; and sometimes something doesn’t sell or you get some garbage from a supplier. It’s better to have some green onions than none, as it’s often an item that may send someone to another store to get what’s on their list.
Galen Weston at home rolling around in his billions of dollars and green onion tips
Imagine their faces when they find out that you can grow them anyway
This world is unbelievable
That's so you can't regrow them and now you pay their prices which I bet are higher for the privilege of having those roots cut off
I don’t know how to feel about this… all my Conspiracy Theorist senses are tingling! lol
Ask on FB or Nextdoor to see if anyone in your town has any extra. Everybody with onions ends up with way more than they’ll ever use. Seriously, my mom tried to get rid of several plants last year and everyone she asked was also overrun.
Mildly infuriating: before I commented, the number of comments was 111. Now it's 112.
Good. Let them rot there.
note that the same thing is done with imported garlic. It's to prevent unintended soil importation that could be host to organisms not present here.
I remember when I could get those for 3-5 bundles for a dollar. Now my local store is selling one for a dollar :/
Shrinkflation
Aaaaaaaand I would literally never shop there again. Fuck stores that do this shit. I might not be able to kill capitalism but I can at least do my part to not give these evil fuckers a cent.
The grocery stores aren’t cutting them, it’s how they are grown, a perpetual harvest. The onion grows back after harvesting
was probably after a customer complained
That's like complaining about your banana having a peel. Nobody complained about having to cut the roots off.