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I was in the middle of cooking a Spaghetti Bolognese last week and a spot of bad planning on my part meant that I had run out of one of the more important ingredients. There weren't any onions left in the vegetable rack and as luck would have it all the supermarkets were likely to be shut (5mp on a Sunday!). There was only one option left open to me.
Off I went round to the corner shop to see what they had. I vaguely remembered seeing a fruit and vegetable section there before when I popped in for milk or something. I don't often use the corner shop, only in an emergency and these occasions are few and far between. The reason for this is mainly because they're too expensive and quite frankly, it's not all that pleasant in there. There's a kind of musty odour about the place and I'm not entirely convinced the place gets cleaned very often (if at all).
They had onions though, half a box of them in fact. So I quickly rummaged through them and pulled out a couple of decent sized ones. I thought I might as well get two because it's always handy to have a spare onion and I wasn't sure I'd be going out to the shops the next day. I usually pick a nice firm onion because they tend to be fresher, however, there really wasn't much to choose from here and they all seemed a bit on the squishy side. They didn't look bad or anything so I figured they'd be fine for a couple of days. The man behind the counter charged me 50p for these which personally I thought was a bit on the steep side, but there again you expect to pay a bit more for the convenience factor don't you?
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