# No more white onions at the grocery store?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-white-onions-at-the-grocery-store/400443>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 17, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-white-onions-at-the-grocery-store/400443 "2007-04-17T07:02:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-white-onions-at-the-grocery-store/400443/41 "2007-04-19T18:43:30Z")

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Well dangit. Here I was all prepared to put an extra 200 white onion sets in the ground and make hundreds of dollars from white-onion-jonesing Chicagoans this summer.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-white-onions-at-the-grocery-store/400443/42 "2007-04-20T02:35:44Z")

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Nope, they don’t have a different name (at least not the one I go to). It’s Shop & Save Market, on the building, in the ads and on the receipts. It’s on River Road/Des Plaines River Road, in the shopping center with Coldstone, Panera, Potbelly’s and Cheeseburger in Paradise.

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