Onions more expensive than beer: Twitter is the only place where inflation is funny

Remember  the scene in 3 Idiots when Raju Rastogi’s (Sharman Joshi’s character) mother talks about the rising prices of groceries and remarks that paneer will be soon be like gold, sold by goldsmiths in tiny packets?

Well, it turns out that she was actually not that far off the mark. The skyrocketing price of onions has actually prompted not one, but two thefts of onions , as thought it were a precious metal and not a mere vegetable, and states have put in place  elaborate safety measures  to guard this precious cargo.

But while the average consumer is lamenting inflation and netizens are googling recipes that do not require onions, the Twitterati are using this as an opportunity to come up with snarky jokes. Indeed, Twitter is probably the only place in India where the rise in onion prices is funny.

No one steals gold anymore. Onion is more precious. Thank you acche din. #TheGreatOnionRobbery https://t.co/l2yGItguyP

— Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 (@priyankac19) August 24, 2015

Jains spotted celebrating while the others fret over rising onion prices.

— Karn Rateria (@KarnRateria) August 25, 2015

Investing in onions over equity this quarter!

— Nakuul Mehta (@NakuulMehta) August 24, 2015

This Raakhi, brothers are planning to gift a box full of onions to their sister/s as a Raksha Bandhan gift :P

— Roshan (@roshantodi) August 25, 2015

I just broke my Fixed Deposit to buy 5kg onion

😜😝😛#goodinvestment #onions

— SMJ (@iSandesh_mj) August 25, 2015

Hmm so price of onions > price of pint of beer?? #Sensex #Inflation #Beer #Confusedeconomics

— Prasun Bhadani (@prasunbhadani) August 25, 2015

#onion #onions pic.twitter.com/ZQnaDG77uT

— Astik (@bhaveshastik) August 24, 2015

The time has come to stock onions in vaults and not warehouses. https://t.co/tQ5haBeVkk

— SUHEL SETH (@Suhelseth) August 25, 2015