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Onions can be considered one of the more unpleasant vegetables to cut. It's not often that cooking can reduce you to tears, yet this kitchen staple takes substantial credit for this phenomenon. To combat this common concern, the world of genetically-modified food has only gotten cooler. For the first time ever in Australia, a crop of 'tearless onions' has been harvested for sale.

"That's actually a pretty funny joke and even if she didn't understand it initially, she should've been receptive to your explanation," wrote one Reddit user.

Explaining why eyes stream whenever we're around onions, Britannica compared it to a form of "botanical warfare."