Do you ever tie an onion to your belt?

Question

That was the style back in my day.

Answer 1

Sounds a lot like:

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Answer 2

Onion Belt

Answer 3

They grow underground in fields and last a long time. During the Depression when men would travel around to find work they would tie an onion to their belt so that they would have something to eat should the journey be long. They could find them in fields even after they had been dug up, so the food source was generally available for the walking man.
I don't tie an onion to my belt because we live in a land where we can acquire food in many places and we have food that is so well preserved that we don't have to carry stuff like this anymore. And besides, most of us don't go wandering the countryside looking for odd jobs, thank goodness.

Answer 4

Nope

Answer 5

Why? I mean why was that the style? Never heard of that before.

Answer 6

No, but sometimes I tie a pickle to my ear.

Answer 7

and what day was that? when gay vampires that were allergic to onions instead of garlic roamed the earth?

Answer 8

What? Dude what have you been smoking? Never mind. I don't want to know.

Answer 9

what's the purpose

Answer 10

No