About

Bite This Onions is a series of absurdist memes depicting someone offering a handful of onions to another person and saying, "Bite this onions." The original version of the meme is an edit of the "this is feminism" format that was posted online as early as 2018. The meme inspired further examples using the phrase "bite this onions" over the following years. While some people have tried to determine the meaning of the meme over the years, it seems to be largely meaningless and up for interpretation.

Origin

On April 26th, 2018, u/CannedChickenMemes made a post to /r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns^[1] sharing a version of the "this is feminism" meme in which the man says, "Sorry for being a man" and the woman offers him a handful of onions, saying, "Bite this onions," garnering over 190 upvotes in seven years. The post is titled, "This image sums up how I feel being about AMAB [assigned male at birth] and I dont know why." This is the earliest known user to share the meme.

Spread

The meme inspired further memes using the phrase "bite this onions" over the following years. On July 25th, 2018, u/Slothfureman shared a version of the meme to /r/PewDiePieSubmissions^[2] in which God offers onions, which was reposted to /r/okbuddyretard^[3] on November 18th, 2019, garnering over 1,000 upvotes in six years.

On February 26th, 2022, Tumblr^[4] user natures-roomba posted a meme in which a horseshoe crab offers the reader of the meme a handful of onions and says the line, garnering over 22,000 notes in three years.

On September 1st, YouTuber^[5] Luke Correia posted a voiced over version of the meme where God offers the onions to the reader of the meme, garnering over 500,000 views in the same span of time.

On January 29th, 2025, u/AbsoluteSillyBilly made a post to /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke^[6] asking for an explanation of the original version of the meme, receiving a variety of possible answers, garnering over 17,000 upvotes in a day.

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