So, apparently in Cuba, Missouri (pop. 3,071) folks take their onions seriously. (Would any Missourians out there care to explain?)
related: Yes, we wash our lemons!
This establishment is not “BYOO”
August 19th, 2012 · 56 comments
FILED UNDER: restaurant · small town living · WTF?
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#1
Nami
What, do they check your bags and pockets to see if you have any of the offending vegetable? I would love to sneak an onion in my purse and see if I could walk through the onion detectors without getting caught!
Aug 19, 2012 at 9:04 pm rating: 34
#2
JK
Yeah, no idea how they plan on enforcing this. Go up to people who are openly weeping and say “Is that a sliced onion in your pocket or are you really sad to see me?”
Aug 19, 2012 at 9:13 pm rating: 122
#3
Jami
Taking it seriously, some cities do have laws against taking outside food & drinks into restaurants. It’s a violation of the health code.
Aug 19, 2012 at 9:17 pm rating: 5
#4
jen
huh. they must charge a lot for onions.
recently, in protest, some students at a local campus handed out free onions outside of the food court because they were price gouging the students.
Aug 19, 2012 at 9:18 pm rating: 14
#5
Rebecca
But I already have them on my belt!
Aug 19, 2012 at 9:32 pm rating: 47
#6
Enna
Well, I’m allergic to onions so I’m all for this policy, especially if it signifies that the premises are completely onion free!
However, I do agree it’s a bit unusual.
Aug 19, 2012 at 9:46 pm rating: 4
#7
shwo!
Just another business trying to bust the power of the onions.
Aug 19, 2012 at 10:18 pm rating: 40
#8
Missouri Girl
The onion part is probably because Vidalia onions are grown specifically in that area of Missouri, as well as several other varieties in the general area.
Aug 19, 2012 at 10:52 pm rating: 10
#9
Derp
I’ve always wondered about the whole bringing in outside drinks to a bar. I should ask a bartender if I’d be allowed to bring in my favored variety of energy drink so when I have a Jagerbomb I can have it with my drink and not gross Red Bull. I’d still pay full price though.
Aug 19, 2012 at 11:32 pm rating: 1
#10
havingfitz
But my onions are very well-behaved! They always sit quietly at the table, and never fight over chicken legs.
Aug 20, 2012 at 12:11 am rating: 55
#11
Divvitar
But the Onion is a newspaper and it’s funny!
Aug 20, 2012 at 2:22 am rating: 17
#12
Guglielmo Boogliodemus
It should be in Spanish. The Mexican element eats onions, raw, with every meal. They chaw them down like an apple. Like what the Whitehouse beautician said when she refused to give Michelle a full brazilian. “Think of the smell!!!”
Aug 20, 2012 at 2:32 am rating: 1
#13
Poltergeist
This is disgustingly racist. Under all their layers, onions are the same as everybody else. Just because they’re smelly foreigners doesn’t mean they don’t deserve the same rights as you and me.
…Now the Irish Potatoes, they’re the ones you have to watch out for.
Aug 20, 2012 at 4:09 am rating: 23
#14
Nancy
Ha! My sister is a teacher at the Cuba elementary school. I’ll ask her.
Aug 20, 2012 at 4:33 am rating: 4
#15
Smokey
Maybe they don’t carry onions for gimlet cocktails?
Aug 20, 2012 at 6:55 am rating: 0
#16
Roto13
I like to think the sign used to end with “food” and someone said “Even onions??” and they had to amend it.
Aug 20, 2012 at 9:12 am rating: 25
#17
Nope
But apparently drinks like water or non-alcoholic beer/wine/etc are perfectly fine.
Aug 20, 2012 at 10:06 am rating: 1
#18
QBall
I’ve eaten there, it’s awesome, please stop by and support their onion free environment and be sure to try the Frisco Melt.. its excellent, I was not paid for this endorsement and I approve this message…
Aug 20, 2012 at 11:42 am rating: 8
#19
FatCatLady
Ah, this would make Kerf cry tears of joy.
Aug 20, 2012 at 2:08 pm rating: 4
#20
jonandphyllis
I really think it’s a joke…a little sarcasm is all…
Aug 22, 2012 at 5:36 pm rating: 0
#21
Mae
Or they might have someone there frequently who has an onion allergy.
Aug 23, 2012 at 3:21 pm rating: 0
#22
Kate
I live about an hour and a half away from Cuba. I’m going to have to stop by next time I drive to St. Louis and bring onions.
Aug 23, 2012 at 10:14 pm rating: 1
#23
B
Well…it’s cheaper to bring your own food than order it there. And, well…..they probably don’t even serve energy driks (That’s what Wal-Mart is for!). Finally…nobody wants driking and driving TO the pub! Really, you can only accomplish that one way – from the pub to the house…or on your way to Wal-Mart for energy drinks and onions.
Aug 24, 2012 at 3:09 pm rating: 0
#24
Nami
Apparently onions were a fad at one point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUj8dma0oo
Aug 25, 2012 at 8:31 pm rating: 0
#25
redheadwglasses
Maybe the restaurant owner doesn’t think The Onion is funny (did you see the “Michele bachmann is relieved no Americans died in the Sikh temple shooting” article?”) and he got confused when ordering the sign.
Aug 27, 2012 at 11:43 am rating: 0
#26
helpdwarf
I’m from Missouri, and I do care to explain. But I can’t. A lot of people here are kind of like those jokes that you just have to be there for. :S
Aug 29, 2012 at 8:57 pm rating: 0
#27
MamaTech
My grandmother, born and raised about 50 miles south of Cuba, MO, HAD TO HAVE a raw onion with nearly every meal – as someone else said, she cut and ate it like an apple and considered it a necessity.
Aug 31, 2012 at 2:32 pm rating: 0
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