When onions become ‘currency’

Light-bulb moment: Newlyweds posing for wedding photos while holding a bouquet of onions in Iloilo City amid soaring prices of onions. — AFP

A retail store in the Philippines accepted onions as “payment” for select in-store items as part of an onion-raising drive for a “community pantry” or food bank project.

A branch of the Japan Home Centre accepts one onion in exchange for the customers’ chosen item.