“Kasusweldo lang kaya konting luxury,” Doris Bigornia tweeted.
Many Filipinos are posting jokes about expensive onions as the country faces an onion crisis as the crops’ prices shoot up amid high demand.
Posts about onion packages, onions in money envelopes and onion food rewards have circulated across social media platforms since the holidays. Some flower shops are also promoting the use of onions for bouquets instead of flowers for their loved ones for the comingalso observed that some Filipinos overseas are bringing home onions to their families and loved ones because they are relatively more affordable abroad.Former Vice President Leni Robredo offered a glimpse of such a contrast in prices through her recent Instagram Stories.Robredo, meanwhile, shared that a market in New York sells yellow onions at only P98.25.
In the story, it was emphasized that the worth of onions in local markets is now higher than that of a kilo of meat and the daily minimum wage of Filipino workers. “That’s about three times as expensive as chicken and 25%-50% more expensive than pork or beef, according to the same market monitoring estimates. The cost of a kilogram of onions is greater than the minimum wage for a day’s work in the Philippines,” the report said.
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