Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by what on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:35AM
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Are you really charging $9/onion? I get upset when Safeway charges $2/lb when I can get onions for a quarter that price.
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Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing. But I do actually deliver the onions. Prices vary.
"Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing."
If you're going to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary - and you are - everyone wants to drive their fancy cars and their big fucking houses they can't afford they need you - you're necessary.
The only reason any of this works is (you) have (your) hand on the scale in their favor. (You) take it away, everything gets really fucking fair, really fucking fast - and don't no one want that.
They want all of the things (you) have to give them and .... then they want to pretend they don't know where it came from.
Priced to what the market can bear
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by IncreasePosts on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:03AM
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Maybe it's a really big onion
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by bryanrasmussen on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:24AM
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maybe it tastes more oniony than most onions, these onions are the essential onions of which other onions are mere shadows.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by dcuthbertson on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:54AM
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It's the mischief caused by shadow onions lurking in dark corners of the market bins that make me cry.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by dgellow on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:56AM
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“We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price”
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company
by doughecka on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:58AM
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I read that in his voice.