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Philippine Onion Shortage Traced To Christmas Trees!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau). Christmas 2022 in the Philippines will be remembered as the time when onions disappeared from the market, and prices rose to unprecedented levels.

Now, an investigation by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) revealed the culprit in this shortage: Christmas trees set up by many Filipinos!

Leave it to the ingenuity of Filipinos to come up with a brilliant idea to decorate their Christmas trees with bulbs — not the lighting kind — but onion bulbs!

Because the Christmas season in the country unofficially begins on September 1, when veteran singer Jose Mari Chan comes out of his hiding with his Christmas carols, Christmas trees have also been put up early, causing the shortage and price increase in onions.

Perhaps next year, it will be the turn of tomatoes?

Education, Food

Harvard Students Disappointed At Leni Robredo Lecture Free Meal

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CAMBRIDGE, MA, U.S.A. (The Adobo Chronicles, Cambridge Bureau) – About a dozen Harvard students flocked to a scheduled lecture by former Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo, one of the Hauser Leaders currently in residence at the famed university.

It was all because of a promised free meal.

But alas, the students were deeply disappointed when the free meal was served in the middle of Robredo’s lecture on Democracy and Disinformation. It consisted of soup, salad and sandwich.

Some of the students interviewed by The Adobo Chronicles said they had expected to be served with lugaw (rice porridge) that the former VP was famous for back in the Philippines.

One of the students said, “I’ve never had lugaw all my life so I was looking forward to having it for the first time, only to be served with the usual, boring, American fast-food meal.”