Onions may be super stinky, and slicing them might make your eyes sting. But onions can do something fun that most foods can’t: pop apart into cute little circles, or rings. If you dip those rings in batter and fry them in hot oil, they become crispy golden onion rings. June 22nd is National Onion Ring Day, but we can celebrate these crunchy any day!
Wee ones: What shape is an onion ring?
Little kids: If your first slice from the top of the onion makes 3 rings, and the next slice makes 5 and the next makes 7…how many rings does the next slice make to continue the pattern? Bonus: If it takes 10 minutes to fry your onion rings and you start at 6:20 pm, when will you finish?
Big kids: If you can cut 20 onion rings from 1 onion, at least how many onions do you need to feed 90 people 1 ring apiece? Bonus: Some say the onion ring was invented back in the year 1802! When did the onion ring turn 200 years old?
Answers:
Wee ones: A circle.
Little kids: 9 rings. Bonus: At 6:30 pm.
Big kids: 5 onions, since 4 onions will make only 80 rings. Bonus: In 2002.
