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You know what it is like to be in the crying zone when you cut a raw onion in the kitchen. Now imagine cutting 70 tons of onions – a typical day’s work at a local snack food manufacturing plant, where truckloads of raw onions are turned into frozen, deep-fried onion rings. That’s a lot of onions, and a lot of tears. At the plant, they say you get used to cutting onions and stop crying after a few minutes.
“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time; and sometimes you weep.”
Carl Sandburg, American poet
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Hartel, R.W., Hartel, A. (2008). At Work in a Vale of Tears. In: Food Bites. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75845-9_10
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