Where do you live and what kind of giant secret recipe golden plated onions are those?
I also wonder where the price of onions is so high, and I guess it could be somewhere in Asia considering that the price for the Philippines (September 2022) shows
$6.74 per kilo. It seems that for some reason the price of red onions in the Philippines is skyrocketing, and whether it's because they didn't produce enough or they have import problems is still unknown.
I'd assume it was import based issued that means that onions cost more.
I'm not sure the UK and France are good comparisons for onion prices as I'd assume they'd remain pretty stable since wild garlic is abundant in the UK (to an extent apparently a lot of people didn't eat it before the 80s because it was considered a weed).
@OP can you work out why this is happening? It's possible to grown onions from parts of onions so you might get away with doing that to keep a supply going for you to be able to use if it's going to last quite a while (though apparently they take 4 months to grow).
I was buying quite a few electronic items over Christmas and it's surprising me they've become quite a lot cheaper and I don't really know why. Perhaps this is companies still trying to sell things or getting cheaper transport fees because they're devices are small compared to other items that are being moved (a computer is likely much easier to transport than flour, grains or meat).