The people behind this are a real (if silly) student organization at UChicago and Northwestern campaigning for the legalization of onion futures trading. Sometimes they will aggressively hand out free onions to passerby on campus. It's quite entertaining.

They have a website also: https://onionfutures.org

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a11ce 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hi! I'm the proprietor of onionfutures.com. I'm actually not a member of UChicago for Our Futures and came up with the idea independently, but we've since connected and they handle our Chicago deliveries.

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teaearlgraycold 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can confirm this person is the owner of onionfutures.com

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what 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are you really charging $9/onion? I get upset when Safeway charges $2/lb when I can get onions for a quarter that price.

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a11ce an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing. But I do actually deliver the onions. Prices vary.

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luma 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Priced to what the market can bear

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IncreasePosts 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe it's a really big onion

	▲	bryanrasmussen 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		maybe it tastes more oniony than most onions, these onions are the essential onions of which other onions are mere shadows.

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Drupon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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Drupon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm a young naive lad curious about this, have UChicago economics professors and/or grad students ever done something that might be considered like, idk, a crime against humanity stain on one's soul, in the past couple of decades?