British Onion Research Circa 1959

Fun. On a trip to Roscoff, we visited the onion museum, and learned of the Johnnies - who traveled to Britain to sell the Roscoff onions door to door:

http://www.brittanytourism.com/to-see-t ... ff-aoc-aop

Is it just me, or is there precisely ONE musical composition for ALL industrial films?

Giovnna

[cool film, btw]

Companies like Pathé used their own library of music. It's no surprise that it gets reused, or at least sounds familiar.

Who would have guessed that it wasn't just someone's grandmother's recipe? I've eaten a fair number of those pickled onions, as they are always served with the classic ploughman's lunch, in every pub in Great Britain.

One item in the video that caught my attention was that so many of the onions came from Egypt. The reason that struck me is that, back in the day when Egyptians mummified their royalty, they used onions to replace eyeballs. So they've had a lot of experience getting onions to just about the exact size shown in the video.