Onion Johnny
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#Agricultural_occupations_(plant)
#French_cuisine
#History_of_the_British_Isles
#Onions
#France–United_Kingdom_relations
#History_of_Brittany
#Agriculture_in_France
#Economic_history_of_Wales
Onion Johnny in Hampstead, London, 2008 Onion Johnnies （Welsh: Sioni Winwns） were Breton farmers and agricultural labourers who travelled on bicycles selling distinctive pink onions door to door in Great Britain, and especially in Wales.
They have adapted this nickname for themselves in Breton as ar Johniged or ar Johnniged.
Declining since the 1950s to only a few, the Onion Johnny was once very common.
With renewed interest since the late 1990s by farmers and the public in small-scale agriculture, their numbers have recently made a small recovery.
Dressed in striped Breton shirt and beret, riding a bicycle hung with onions, the Onion Johnny became the stereotypical image of the Frenchman and was possibly in many cases the only contact that ordinary British people had with France and French people.
Stringing onions in Porthmadog, Wales （1958） The trade may have begun in 1828 when the first successful trip is said to have been made by Henri Ollivier.
From the area around Roscoff in Brittany known as Bro Rosko, Johnnies found a more profitable market in Britain than in France, and typically brought their harvest across the English Channel in July to store in rented barns,
returning home in December or January.
They could have sold their produce in Paris, but the roads and the railways were bad in the 19th century and going there was a long and difficult trip; crossing the channel was shorter and easier.
As the early Johnnies were all Breton-speakers, Wales was a favoured destination.
Breton is a Brythonic language related to Welsh and Cornish, and the Johnnies would have found Welsh a far easier language to learn than English.
The Johnnies who regularly visited Wales in the nineteenth century b...
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