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Evan Bartlett
Mar 13, 2015

It has been quite a week for Tony Abbott. First he posed for an excruciating promo video about St Patrick's Day and now he's going viral again after eating a raw onion.
On a visit to Charlton Farm Produce in rural Tasmania, the Australian prime minister surprised onlookers by taking a bite of an onion (skin and all) as if it was an apple.
I may have said 'It's a shame they weren't peeled' and he just started eating it.
It was just spontaneous and there weren't even any tears.
- Farm owner David Addison speaking to The Mercury
He doesn't appear to have been forced to to, or even asked to.
More as we get it.
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