Shatter windshield with an onion

[snopes]

Comment: Rumor has it that if you cut an onion in half, place it on the
windshield of a car and you then try to remove it, the glass will shatter.

[AnglRdr]

An onion with Gorilla Glue liberally applied?

An onion cut in half a certain way (through the "poles" of the onion, as opposed to across the "equator") will fall apart in its layers when you try to lift it up, and

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Maybe if you did it in the middle of temperatures well below freezing, so that the onion immediately froze solid to the windshield.

Who thinks this crud up, anyway!?!?

[STF]

Originally Posted by AnglRdr

An onion with Gorilla Glue liberally applied?

An onion cut in half a certain way (through the "poles" of the onion, as opposed to across the "equator") will fall apart in its layers when you try to lift it up, and

and what? and what?

[snopes]

You're supposed to do this with a Jolly Rancher candy. Maybe Majorsam could give the onion a try, too ...

- snopes

[AnglRdr]

Originally Posted by STF

and what? and what?

True story: I have no idea what I was going to say. Multitasking is not my forte today.

[Aud 1]

Brought to you by onion farmers!
If enought people try to test this...

[Seburiel]

(continued from above)... It will open a rift in the space-time continuum and allow the elder gods free reign of the earth! Anarchy, Evil, Space Monsters, Phyllis Diller! It will mean the end of life as we know it!

[RichardM]

If you take a big juicy onion and freeze it solid, then launch it at the windshield, then maybe.

Does it create a cool spider-effect if you're using bullet-proof glass? And how long do you have to keep the onion on there? Because you may just end up with a spoiled onion on your windshield!

I'm curious if carefully doctored "video-proof" will ever come out about this one? Sounds like a candidate for hoaxers who want to post something on youtube and an excuse for shattering a windshield.

[Majorsam]

Originally Posted by snopes

You're supposed to do this with a Jolly Rancher candy. Maybe Majorsam could give the onion a try, too ...

- snopes

Oh, drat. I bought a new car so my busted windshield is no longer available for spine-tingling cutting-edge street research. However, I am currently in Los Angeles and there are no end to opportunities.

Anyone know what kind of onion? Will a Yellow Onion do? I sense my wife will be perplexed again soon!

[llewtrah]

It used to be thought a window would break if you rubbed crushed parsley on it. I found it in a list of odd beliefs in a Look and Learn Annual in the 1970s (the belief seemed to be from the 19th century) and though my parents told me it wasn't true they still wouldn't let me try it on any windows in the house!

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: Rumor has it that if you cut an onion in half, place it on the
windshield of a car and you then try to remove it, the glass will shatter.

I walk past a grocer shop on the way home. Tempting...

[Dark Blue]

If you take a big juicy onion and freeze it solid, then launch it at the windshield, then maybe.

This reminds me of the time that a well known American aviation company lent it's onion cannon, used to test aircraft against possible onion strikes while in flight, to a British train company to test their bullet trains but they used frozen onions instead of thawed onions.......

[Majorsam]

Good morning all;

Yesterday I engaged in a little Street Science once again. I admit I felt there was no validity to this legend, but decided that the only proper course of action was to test it anyway. Unfortunately, once I undertook it, I felt the slightest, barest, mildest sense of apprehension...what if - despite all logic - it was true? My windshield of my new hybrid would be damaged, or worse! So I did what anyone in my position would do...I tested it on my wife's car when she wasn't looking.

For the experiment I chose three good-sized onions...a brown, yellow & purple. I sliced them, in order stated: pole-to pole, equatorialy and at an approximately 30 degree angle, and applied them immediately to Mrs. Majorsam's windshield.

First off, they didn't stick. The immediately slid down the windshield until they rested on the windshield wipers. They also didn't conform to the winshield very well owing to, I deduce, an imperfect cut or the curve of the windshield or a combination of both.

At that point I terminated the experiment because:

A. It was clear that without a significant portion of the onion being able to make purchase on the windshield the chances of success were small to none and

B. I felt really silly.

I'm going to wait for my - pardon the pun - next window of opportunity and try again, this time using flat glass to maximize the onion-to-window-contact factor...however based on the fact that I couldn't even get the onions to stick to the windshield makes me, if possible, even more dubious than I was when I started. I may even do the follow-up experiment on my own car.

Very best regards;

Majorsam