Chopping onions makes you cry, right?

Except for me, most days, it doesn’t. I chop onions for dinner most days without even thinking about it. And then today all of a sudden I got an onion that really made me tear up.

Are the onions I get from the supermarket these days some new, weaker variety? Have they been in storage so long that they’ve lost their strength?

The same goes for grapefruit. Grapefruits used to be so tart and astringent that my mouth would pucker. Recently (as in, for several years now) the grapefruits I’ve bought and eaten have been almost bland, so I’ve lost interest in them.