Just Tony Abbott eating a raw onion, skin and all

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.

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