FOOD ITEM DESCRIPTION
Spanish onions are described as "ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed," and compared to Spanish friars, adding to the colorful imagery of the market scene.
SPANISH ONIONS
There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.