How Safe Mumbai Is: No One Touched An Unguarded Sack Of Onions Outside Mumbai Restaurant

Onions are making people cry quite literally, as prices are skyrocketing across the country! It costs about Rs 100 per kg at the moment, and there's a good chance, it may soon touch a new high of Rs 150 per kg, according to traders and analysts.

In most of the markets, it is being sold at Rs 110-130 per kg. "At Nasik, the highest wholesale rate was Rs 5,400/40 per kg, which translates to Rs 135 a kg," Agri analyst Sibu Malakar said.

The onion price hike has turned this common cooking ingredient into a luxury item for everyone. After the memes on onion prices, a photo of an unguarded sack of onions lying outside a Mumbai restaurant went viral on social media.

Picture Courtesy: IANS

Popular Mumbai photographer and blogger, Gopal MS, who clicks pictures and documents the day-to-day life in the city, found it remarkable that the sack of onion was kept outside the restaurant without anyone guarding it.

The photo was shared on his Twitter account, with the caption ¡®Believe it or not. Is this is how safe Mumbai is? A sack of onions placed outside a restaurant to be picked up when it opens¡¯. The picture showed a sack of onions kept outside a hotel near Sewri Railway Station.

Here¡¯s the picture:

Believe it or not. Is this is how safe mumbai is? A sack of onions placed outside a restaurant to be picked up when it opens. pic.twitter.com/CVrLyKSlrV

¡ª Mumbai Paused (@SloganMurugan) December 2, 2019

The picture garnered many responses with people commenting that nobody wants to mess with Delhi people (after reading the name of the restaurant). Some commented that they were sad to see that onions and cows were safe in this country, but women were still unsafe, following the Hyderabad gang rape case of the 27-year-old veterinary doctor.

Here¡¯s what people said:

1.

Irony: the hotel's name has Delhi in it?

¡ª namita jain (@namitaj68) December 2, 2019

2.

I think it's because the hotel is dilli waalo ka, and all the thieves know the baap of the shopkeeper by now.

¡ª Prateek Kohli (@Iampk92) December 4, 2019

3.

Hope the city is as safe to women as it is for onions. Can we vouch for that also please?

¡ª Dr. Amrita Ghosh (@MsBiryani) December 2, 2019

4.

This is gold!

¡ª romel dias (@romeldias) December 2, 2019

5.

Have you tried keeping a female out? Because honestly that part doesn't work.

¡ª Noel (@hape_go_lueke) December 3, 2019

6.

Remarkable!

¡ª beyondtheuturn (@beyondtheuturn) December 2, 2019

Recently, thieves in West Bengal reportedly stole onions worth Rs 50,000, but didn¡¯t touch the cashbox which shows that people should now protect onions like they protect jewellery and cash.