Video - The Great Onion Ban: France's Flavorful Fiasco of the 1920s!

Did you know that in the 1920s, a small town in France had a mayor who banned onions? Yes, you heard that right! Mayor Ferdinand Floutier of the picturesque town of Le Puy-en-Velay decided that the pungent aroma of onions was simply too much to bear. He believed that the smell of onions was a public nuisance and that the town would be better off without them. The local chefs and housewives were in an uproar, and secret onion-smuggling rings sprang up. People hid onions in the most creative places, like inside loaves of bread and hollowed-out books. What a tear-jerking tale, right?