Tearless onions now exist!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm preparing myself to be teased from my team, but
I'm really excited about some innovation in the farming world. Great,
and I grew up around farms. As everyone knows. My
dad is a stop at. He is a vegetable specialist
and I'm very proud with you every day. So get excited.

(00:38):
This is coming to Woolworth's tearless onions. It has taken
thirty years to develop with Australian farmers a tearless onion.
Now you guys don't Why are you guys not excited
about this? I mean, this is innovation and they've done
it and it's not genetically modified, so it's a healthy
onion as well.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
What about chocolate that doesn't make it fat?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
We'd be excited then, but tearless onions.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, I'm excited because I'm an onion chopper. I'm the
cook of the family, so when you know, you barely cook.
So when you cook, when you cut up onions, the
reason why you cry is because it releases chemicals and
enzymes into the atmosphere and that gets in your eyes.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
That's why you cry.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
These tearless onions they've managed to remove through breeding to
get those enzymes and chemicals out. So just like you know,
we make poodles of all different varieties, so you know,
it's the same thing with vegetables.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
So if what do you get if you cross an
onion with a poodle poo?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And now the other exciting thing about these particular onions
is they're sweeter to taste, so they can be in
fresh aka tony at style, so you can like crunch
right embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
He's still still going, yeah, just to get rid of
that taste.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, and they've got a name, so they're going to
be calling them happy chop tearless onions, and they're rolling
out everywhere happy chop. I'm not so happy with the name.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Happy you're going to be happy chopping because you're not
going to look like you've watched Marley and Me while
you make your dinner.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's not going to cry.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
But I also feel like, sometimes, you know, a part
of me is like onions without tears, is like coffee
without caffeine, pointless, right.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, tell me about it. I know, right, But.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
The name I'm not happy with. So happy Chop, I
get it, but I think they should call it a funion,
a fun onion.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I love how you explained it. We got it, we
just didn't like joy. Yeah, that's true. I think it's
really appealing, Chopper,