African onions

ife is full of surprises. Just when you think you've seen it all, wham, it blows right in your face!

The other day at Brixton Market I bought what I thought was a bag of common-or-garden red onions. They were marked African onions but I took it was the grocer's trick to sell more of those to his numerous African clientèle. Turns out wrong. I felt the mighty difference just when I started peeling one. It was like the second power of your regular onion punch. Same went for the taste: onion on steroids and amphetamines! Nothing to do with the gentle sweetness of red onion. Appearances are deceptive. Now I know better.

P.S. I just found out that these onions are also known as Bombay or Nasik or Pune and are also popular with South Asians.