Was Justin so distracted by the luxury of his own room that he was just entirely unaware of the small onion silo that the rest of the house had become?
@@Drchef4ever Justin is I think 3 years older than Travis. I don't think Travis was selling onions when he was older than 14 so he probably wasn't old enough for college yet.
@@Drchef4ever at 2:15 griffin points out that he _"shared a bedroom with travis during these trying times"_ - i'm pretty sure they got their own rooms once justin was out of the house, especially because they were old enough to really *need* their own space by the time justin went to college 😹 (because of when his birthday falls, juice almost certainly started a few months before he turned 19, august 1999... and at that point griff was ~12 ¼ and travis was ~15 ¾)
Between this and the fact that Justin didn't know that Travis went to middle school with a guy named Kevin Kline, I'm amazed that these guys lived in the same TOWN as kids let alone the same house.
Huntington isn’t that small. The town I went to jr high and high school had a graduating class in 2004 of 89 in a town of 7,000. That’s small (not the smallest) and there were many people I’d didn’t know by name or reputations
I love how the McElroys just have vague memories of their childhoods until theyre reminded of something from it, then their memory is absolutely crystal clear and they can recount every detail of it.
Absolute gold, my favorite part about the whole thing is how willing Justin was to play along as though it were a bit, just to be informed that it infact was not
i did? at least i thought i did haha, the only parts i cut were the very beginning where it was just about girl scout cookies the “i thought it was just a bit” part is near the end
This is a special kind of McElroy Moment where the boys are enthused with the joy of their own true lives. Travis in particular is so animated here. Love it.
It's pretty wild that it was onions. Like full stop, you have to REALLY like onions to think you're going to go thru a whole box. And 120 ish people thought they'd like at least ONE box of those stinky bad boys. It is genuinely impressive Travis managed to sell so many. Also impressive that he got cash, every time I was induced to sell shit for an organization it was more of a "let's steal this child's labor." scheme and I would be like entered into a raffle or something.
Onions also last really really well. I’m a single person who lives alone, and I’ll buy a big ole bag of onions and leave them in the crisper and I’m still using perfectly nice onions from that same bag a month later. They are like… a famously hearty and long lasting vegetable.
Right? Like I love potatoes, more than a healthy person has any right to love potatoes, and I still can't get through a whole bag of potatoes before they start to turn into little vegan hentai monsters.
@@azraelle6232 i feel you. i love pineapples so much. like, eat a whole pineapple for lunch kind of enjoyment. but i would have to turn down a box of my yellow bois if someone offered them because they just can't help but speedrun their way into brown mush.
Speaking as an eldest sibling, I am so unaware of so much of the shit that happens with my siblings so Justin just not knowing about the onions is highly relatable lmao
sometimes i forget they lived in west virginia, and then they tell stories like this and i’m like, oh yeah……the southeast states are really built different
I love when they talk about their childhood! As a Midwesterner Middlest Sister in a Southern Baptist household I can relate to a lot of their experiences. Selling onions is really weird though.
same, even though i'm thoroughly northeastern (am well and truly a vermont boye), i grew up in a southern baptist church and WOW, some of these stories just Hit Different for me. selling onions is indeed *real* weird, but there's a compilation of them talking church stuff (i have zero recollection of the title tho) and boy oh boy that vid just. summarizes and encapsulates like 90% of my experience with it... as in i've literally sent it to friends to explain the difference between growing up [insert other denomination here] vs southern baptist, and they've mostly responded "hey,,,, what in hecc???" but also understood way better 😹 it's truly a Wild Experience and whenever the good boys talk abt that it really just like.... idk, "makes me feel seen" is not at all the right phrasing, but it's the closest thing that comes to mind? but i think you maybe know what i mean
@@russell.bishop It is, but Travis is so excited to recount this story that for the first 15 seconds or so he's barely forming words, and Geo captures that essence perfectly on the side of the onion box.
_"You were there!"_ Justin straight up blocked out the memory of Travis selling hundreds of onions. How could you forget that. Also- _200 dollars for selling over a hundred boxes of onions._ Woof.
The ultimate question is always “is this actually a real thing from their family history, or is it a very elaborate bit?”, and I’m glad Justin finds it just as difficult to tell
Oh man, I identify so hard with Justin where you’ve blackout so much of your memory that when people tell stories you were involved in you can’t picture a moment of it anymore.
We’re all lucky Travis doesn’t turn the Moneyzone up to 11, because we’d have no defense against his charisma. We’d be up to our knees in Casper mattresses, fuzzy handcuffs, and stamps we had printed out at home.
I had to sell icecream for my art class and you would not believe how easily people forget that they've ordered $40 of icecream from a small 13 year old. I was called a liar many times and some people refused to take the icecream. So I can only imagine how hard it would be to track down *onion buyers.*
I remember my brothers selling oranges for high school band, we get plenty of kids each fall selling chocolate bars, but I have _never_ heard of kids selling onions door-to-door for church. I can't even question if this is a Protestant thing because we've got just about _every_ denomination in my city and _none_ of them do this. EDIT: Well, my parents remember onion sellers. They just can't remember who it was or when.
First time I listened to this I was like how could he forget something like that, then I remembered that my aunt doesn't remember my dad breaking his arm and my dad doesn't remember that for an entire year of school, my aunt's desk was placed in a closet as punishment for not being social enough.
I'm starting to think Travis is your favorite. No argument from me, I absolutely love him! Partly because of the shared name, partly for the crazy goldmine of material he provides. I'm loving the frequency of your content!
This is a sobering reminder of the blurred lines effect that constant content creation about your genuine self can have on a person, he literally doesn't know if his a massive part of his life is a bit or not
this comment says it was posted a day ago for me and this video was only posted 52 seconds ago this is a new and exciting youtube glitch i’m so happy to have witnessed
When I listened to this episode I was glad to here that other schools did this too. My high school had the baseball players sell Vidalia onions in the spring as well, always thought it was hilarious.
Seriously, though... how could you forget your brother accumulating SO MANY BOXES of onions. When I first heard them talk about this, I thought Travis was selling individual onions, so fine. Easy to forget. But he sold BOXES of them at a time! WTF Justin?! How?!
I dislike the mandarin sale I'm currently doing, but at least it's not onions. As my existence is reduced to citrus fruit and marketing, leaving me stranded in a void of mandarins with no escape in sight exept passing this curse onto another by selling mandarins, I can tell myself "at least it's not onions".
It doesn't have the smell but my mum Did end up as like a troop or regional somethin for girl scouts, which basically meant we were a middleman for getting cases to scouts, and a bunch of children that each sold a buckwild amount of cookies really adds up
If they were just friends it would have been already funny. The fact that they lived in the same place makes it funnier. THE FACT THAT THEY ARE BROTHERS AND JUSTIN DID SOMEHOW *NOT KNOW* ABSOLUTELY *KILLS* ME
For a bit suggestion, I'm still voting for an "I hate Ted Cruz" rant. I'd love to see all of it, but you could do a short one about him TPing someone's house in broad daylight, and then have his pants peed the entire time.
I'm amazed that Justin could have forgotten that. It's not like he could have been too young if Travis was running an onion selling business and even Griffin was old enough to remember.
In middle school we either sold yankee candles or butterbraids. The yankee candles were so much easier to deliver, but the butterbraids. Oh, the butterbraids. We had to shove those bad boys in the freezer and those were NOT SMALL and we only had one rather small freezer. At least with the candles I could sell a lot more because I could actually sell to my out-of-state family, but the butterbraids had to be quickly deliverable. I was a very good seller though, but never top in the school. Got third once, iirc. Still got one of those selling prizes in my room (it’s a light-up top)
We did this with fruit. Mostly oranges and tangerines but there were apples and grapefruit available too. Like the smallest size we could sell was 1/2 a bushel which is still a fucking lot! This was for marching band. I think the football team and cheerleaders got to do the more popular drives like selling chocolate and the like.
I thought this whole story was bonkers until they mentioned selling boxes of oranges, and I remembered that holy bajeebers, kids at my school (midwest in the '80s/early '90s) DID do that shit
Okay, so this started as a comment about how my neighbor used to sell onions, but while reminiscing about it with my mom, it turns out it was a front for him selling weed. Either Travis was selling a metric crapton of onions, or kid Travis was the greatest kid drug dealer in West Virginia.
My dad just told a story about how hed sometimes bite into a vidalia onion like an apple, and I had to work SO HARD to not say some version of "It's the sweeter than an apple vegetable" in front of God and my family and everyone.
Was Justin so distracted by the luxury of his own room that he was just entirely unaware of the small onion silo that the rest of the house had become?
Off to college i think
@@Drchef4ever No, according to Travis, "You were THERE!"
@@Drchef4ever Justin is I think 3 years older than Travis. I don't think Travis was selling onions when he was older than 14 so he probably wasn't old enough for college yet.
@@Drchef4ever at 2:15 griffin points out that he _"shared a bedroom with travis during these trying times"_ - i'm pretty sure they got their own rooms once justin was out of the house, especially because they were old enough to really *need* their own space by the time justin went to college 😹
(because of when his birthday falls, juice almost certainly started a few months before he turned 19, august 1999... and at that point griff was ~12 ¼ and travis was ~15 ¾)
Cause he’s the eldest 😈
I like to call bits like these "supreme Travis moments" because this is really him at his peak
truly Peak Trav
Thank Travis for Travis
Ye
Alas another homestuck
Thanks Eridan
Between this and the fact that Justin didn't know that Travis went to middle school with a guy named Kevin Kline, I'm amazed that these guys lived in the same TOWN as kids let alone the same house.
It’s a very “older sibling to middle sibling” moment lmao
Oh the Kevin Kline incident 😂
What a bunch of silly rascals
Huntington isn’t that small. The town I went to jr high and high school had a graduating class in 2004 of 89 in a town of 7,000. That’s small (not the smallest) and there were many people I’d didn’t know by name or reputations
@@deltaloraineyou know the core group that comes to the house but the rest of their lives are a mystery lol
I love how the McElroys just have vague memories of their childhoods until theyre reminded of something from it, then their memory is absolutely crystal clear and they can recount every detail of it.
Is that not how your childhood is?
West Virginia seems to permanently exist in the 1970s and the 1870s simultaneously, because there's no other explanation for making a child do this.
well the mcelroy brothers did grow up in the 80s/90s haha
as someone from Virginia who grew up in the 2000s, the second you're in rural area these things just happen no matter the era
Jumping in two years late to say the onion craze made its way all the way to the elementary schools of Indiana in the mid-90s.
Absolute gold, my favorite part about the whole thing is how willing Justin was to play along as though it were a bit, just to be informed that it infact was not
Classic Juice
I'm enjoying the idea that Griffin praising Travis's charisma is what made Justin certain that the whole onion-selling story was a joke
The reason why Justin wasn’t affected is because he had the eldest sibling single bedroom lol
I was so happy you kept the part where Justin thought it was a joke
i did? at least i thought i did haha, the only parts i cut were the very beginning where it was just about girl scout cookies
the “i thought it was just a bit” part is near the end
@@geothebio I know! I'm very glad you did! I worded my comment poorly. I love it as always. 🙂
travis is the person they told us about in math class
Travis has 120 boxes of onions. If Travis delivers 1/3rd of them...
🤣🤣
“Crunch right into a Vidalia onion just like the Iron Chef does it.”
just like tony abbott
Chaotic food related Travis moments include:
1. Mangoes
2. Feeners
3. Old beef (Edited in, I'm appalled I forgot this gem)
And now Onions.
Don't forget Old Beef!
Old Beef lives rent free in my head
And every time they've talked about Travis' eating habits like he's some kind of world-devourer, but with, Like, Krystal or Olive Garden
Also him eating all the chocolate he was supposed to sell and making his parents pay for it
don't forget hot grapes either
love how justin spends the entire bit thinking “huh this sounds really familiar i think this might actually be a thing”
“yo dawg you were there!”
the one dislike is the one guy who bought too many onions and they're crying and can't see the buttons
😭
@@geothebio🧅
I was laughing so hard listening to this bit, also Justin not remembering the onions at all is 100% older sibling behavior
This is a special kind of McElroy Moment where the boys are enthused with the joy of their own true lives. Travis in particular is so animated here. Love it.
they're all animated my guy it's a cartoon
It's pretty wild that it was onions. Like full stop, you have to REALLY like onions to think you're going to go thru a whole box. And 120 ish people thought they'd like at least ONE box of those stinky bad boys. It is genuinely impressive Travis managed to sell so many. Also impressive that he got cash, every time I was induced to sell shit for an organization it was more of a "let's steal this child's labor." scheme and I would be like entered into a raffle or something.
I mean onions go in a lot of food, so if you have a big family it could work
Onions also last really really well. I’m a single person who lives alone, and I’ll buy a big ole bag of onions and leave them in the crisper and I’m still using perfectly nice onions from that same bag a month later. They are like… a famously hearty and long lasting vegetable.
Right? Like I love potatoes, more than a healthy person has any right to love potatoes, and I still can't get through a whole bag of potatoes before they start to turn into little vegan hentai monsters.
@@azraelle6232 i feel you. i love pineapples so much. like, eat a whole pineapple for lunch kind of enjoyment. but i would have to turn down a box of my yellow bois if someone offered them because they just can't help but speedrun their way into brown mush.
I like to imagine the whole town just REALLY liked French onion soup
Speaking as an eldest sibling, I am so unaware of so much of the shit that happens with my siblings so Justin just not knowing about the onions is highly relatable lmao
Just goes to show you how much oldest siblings are absolutely uninvolved in middle child business
sometimes i forget they lived in west virginia, and then they tell stories like this and i’m like, oh yeah……the southeast states are really built different
WV ain't even that south bro, it's appalachia that you're calling out
@@Alex-fn2hl that’s why i said southeast states not The South. reading comprehension bud.
@@sarahbearbabygirl he meant it borders states on the northern border, it is not south nor southeast
The eldest child completely forgetting the middle child did something so prevalent in their life at one point is *peak* middle sibling energy.
Literally made my week and I adore the ghost shirt more than anything.
I love the mountain of onions looming behind Travis in just about every shot he's in--his literal burden breathing down his neck!
I love Travis's onion farmer outfit with his little piece of straw! And when Griffin falls over laughing and gets covered in onion peel
I love your travis... Hes so wide eyed No Thoughts Head Empty looking and it really works
I love when they talk about their childhood! As a Midwesterner Middlest Sister in a Southern Baptist household I can relate to a lot of their experiences.
Selling onions is really weird though.
same, even though i'm thoroughly northeastern (am well and truly a vermont boye), i grew up in a southern baptist church and WOW, some of these stories just Hit Different for me. selling onions is indeed *real* weird, but there's a compilation of them talking church stuff (i have zero recollection of the title tho) and boy oh boy that vid just. summarizes and encapsulates like 90% of my experience with it... as in i've literally sent it to friends to explain the difference between growing up [insert other denomination here] vs southern baptist, and they've mostly responded "hey,,,, what in hecc???" but also understood way better 😹 it's truly a Wild Experience and whenever the good boys talk abt that it really just like.... idk, "makes me feel seen" is not at all the right phrasing, but it's the closest thing that comes to mind? but i think you maybe know what i mean
I sold Yankee Candle candles once for a catholic scout group my mom put me in which I thought was a little weird but onions seem absolutely unhinged
Justin’s berries and cream shirt 🤣
This makes me way more grateful that all I had to sell in school was chocolate bars and magazine subscriptions.
Mo' onions mo' problems
i’m crying at this pls 😭
Reverse Gaslighting: when you just don't remember something that actually happened
me on a daily basis tbh
travis in his hayday, before he ventured down the dark path of the mango cult
They’re sweeter than an Apple Vegetable!
Surely it's
The "sweeter than an apple" vegetable
@@russell.bishop It is, but Travis is so excited to recount this story that for the first 15 seconds or so he's barely forming words, and Geo captures that essence perfectly on the side of the onion box.
I love the Spongebob inspired time card at 0:55! That was a nice touch!
That reminds me of our choir! We do a potato fundraiser. 50 pound crates for 30 bucks! It was insane to deliver all those boxes.
50. Pound. Crates.
...of potates. Sold by a children's choir?
🤣
@@DarlingMissDarling yeah, when I was in high school choir
@@kathansen6995 man oh man! I can't imagine the pressure of needing to move so much poundage! Lol I bet the parents just loved that time of the year 🤣
wait my school sold onions too and im just now realizing how fucking weird of a choice that is
yeah dog! most people sell candy bars!
I love the asthetic of the church goer.
i was going for Babushka
@@geothebio Babushka is a very common breed of church goer.
_"You were there!"_
Justin straight up blocked out the memory of Travis selling hundreds of onions. How could you forget that.
Also- _200 dollars for selling over a hundred boxes of onions._ Woof.
200 dollars for 120 boxes of onions is literally less than two dollars per box. $1.66 recurring per box
@@gl00myharvester not only child labor but practically slave labor at those rates.
Justin in the background going 'I have no fucking idea what you're talking about but it looks like you're having fun so I'll let you run with it'
The ultimate question is always “is this actually a real thing from their family history, or is it a very elaborate bit?”, and I’m glad Justin finds it just as difficult to tell
I literally am listening to this episode right now!!!!
Oh man, I identify so hard with Justin where you’ve blackout so much of your memory that when people tell stories you were involved in you can’t picture a moment of it anymore.
We’re all lucky Travis doesn’t turn the Moneyzone up to 11, because we’d have no defense against his charisma. We’d be up to our knees in Casper mattresses, fuzzy handcuffs, and stamps we had printed out at home.
I had to sell icecream for my art class and you would not believe how easily people forget that they've ordered $40 of icecream from a small 13 year old. I was called a liar many times and some people refused to take the icecream.
So I can only imagine how hard it would be to track down *onion buyers.*
we had to sell tamales for marching band one year and my family ate tamales for six months lmfao
I remember my brothers selling oranges for high school band, we get plenty of kids each fall selling chocolate bars, but I have _never_ heard of kids selling onions door-to-door for church. I can't even question if this is a Protestant thing because we've got just about _every_ denomination in my city and _none_ of them do this.
EDIT: Well, my parents remember onion sellers. They just can't remember who it was or when.
First time I listened to this I was like how could he forget something like that, then I remembered that my aunt doesn't remember my dad breaking his arm and my dad doesn't remember that for an entire year of school, my aunt's desk was placed in a closet as punishment for not being social enough.
What’s funny is that I also didn’t know if they were joking or not lmaooo
This was a beautiful start to my day. Long live the "sweeter than an apple" vegetable!
I had no idea that vidalia was a type of onion! That makes so much sense with the Steven universe character
I'm starting to think Travis is your favorite. No argument from me, I absolutely love him! Partly because of the shared name, partly for the crazy goldmine of material he provides. I'm loving the frequency of your content!
Thank you for blessing us with a new video!!! ❤️❤️❤️ so good
glad to see that im not the only one who pronounces "onions" as "ongions", thanks trav
(also great video as always geo!)
I can't find any references to "sweeter than an apple" but a lot of places say "Sweet enough to eat like fruit."
God this is so relatable. The oldest sibling never remembers these things!
Got to meet Travis and hear a version of this rant in person. The confused rage is delightful.
As soon as I heard this bit, I was hoping you’d animate it! Thank you so much!
Nothing makes my day better as fast as when I see these in my notifs
Justin’s shirt game is always so on point. Gotta be one of my favorite parts about these videos
This is a sobering reminder of the blurred lines effect that constant content creation about your genuine self can have on a person, he literally doesn't know if his a massive part of his life is a bit or not
Fantastic stuff :o
this comment says it was posted a day ago for me and this video was only posted 52 seconds ago this is a new and exciting youtube glitch i’m so happy to have witnessed
When I listened to this episode I was glad to here that other schools did this too. My high school had the baseball players sell Vidalia onions in the spring as well, always thought it was hilarious.
This was one of my favorite bits glad to see it animated! Excellent job!
Getting a Fazoli's ad on a MBMBAM video is surreal
My show choir sold mattresses
mATTRESSES?!
We just got a flyer last month about my old high school doing that! When did that become a thing?!
????
Seriously, though... how could you forget your brother accumulating SO MANY BOXES of onions. When I first heard them talk about this, I thought Travis was selling individual onions, so fine. Easy to forget. But he sold BOXES of them at a time! WTF Justin?! How?!
Thank you UA-cam algorithm for showing me this again, I love this animation so much
I dislike the mandarin sale I'm currently doing, but at least it's not onions. As my existence is reduced to citrus fruit and marketing, leaving me stranded in a void of mandarins with no escape in sight exept passing this curse onto another by selling mandarins, I can tell myself "at least it's not onions".
loving travis's nails
Travis and Griffin getting indignant and Travis shouting "You were THERE" over Griffin's "Sweeter than an Apple Vegetable!"
scientifically vidalia onions actually are somehow "sweeter than an apple"
Oh my god other places did this??? I too sold onions for fundraisers omfg
It doesn't have the smell but my mum Did end up as like a troop or regional somethin for girl scouts, which basically meant we were a middleman for getting cases to scouts, and a bunch of children that each sold a buckwild amount of cookies really adds up
justin just straight up suppressed his childhood memories in this moment
I didn't know there were people out there selling onions door to door like chocolate bars. I would have bought a box of onions. Straight up.
everytime you let out a video I rewatch them all lol
If they were just friends it would have been already funny. The fact that they lived in the same place makes it funnier.
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE BROTHERS AND JUSTIN DID SOMEHOW *NOT KNOW* ABSOLUTELY *KILLS* ME
For a bit suggestion, I'm still voting for an "I hate Ted Cruz" rant. I'd love to see all of it, but you could do a short one about him TPing someone's house in broad daylight, and then have his pants peed the entire time.
I'm amazed that Justin could have forgotten that. It's not like he could have been too young if Travis was running an onion selling business and even Griffin was old enough to remember.
My school sold potatoes. So many potatoes. Oh my god
"No Potatoes On the Bus" was a school rule they announced every day while it was multi-level marketing school-endorsed potato-selling season
To this day, I still don’t know if this is a legendary goof or not
In middle school we either sold yankee candles or butterbraids. The yankee candles were so much easier to deliver, but the butterbraids. Oh, the butterbraids. We had to shove those bad boys in the freezer and those were NOT SMALL and we only had one rather small freezer. At least with the candles I could sell a lot more because I could actually sell to my out-of-state family, but the butterbraids had to be quickly deliverable. I was a very good seller though, but never top in the school. Got third once, iirc. Still got one of those selling prizes in my room (it’s a light-up top)
When you're such a storyteller that nobody knows when you're telling the truth.
We did this with fruit. Mostly oranges and tangerines but there were apples and grapefruit available too. Like the smallest size we could sell was 1/2 a bushel which is still a fucking lot!
This was for marching band. I think the football team and cheerleaders got to do the more popular drives like selling chocolate and the like.
I love that Justin genuinely thinks this is a but until the end
It makes me sad when ppl say travis isn't funny bc he's my favorite
i love your videos :D
Until this moment, I thought they were saying "Bedelia Onions" this entiee time, and I listened to this episode when it came out.
You know, to be fair to Justin, I remember stuff from like when I was two years old. My Sister cannot remember anything until like high school.
I not going to lie to you I have no idea who these men are but I find your art and of course their little stories very entertaining.
the podcast mbmbam/my brother my brother and me
I thought this whole story was bonkers until they mentioned selling boxes of oranges, and I remembered that holy bajeebers, kids at my school (midwest in the '80s/early '90s) DID do that shit
Griffin has been so sweet to Travis recently
I really want to have Travis’s energy, it’s amazing
I really appreciated Justin’s Berries and Cream shirt.
Griffins disappointed “Bub.” got me
I really enjoy the caption: "Yeah, bub [gestures to onions]"
What is with travis’s obsession with consumable plants
Okay, so this started as a comment about how my neighbor used to sell onions, but while reminiscing about it with my mom, it turns out it was a front for him selling weed. Either Travis was selling a metric crapton of onions, or kid Travis was the greatest kid drug dealer in West Virginia.
quality 😗✌🏽
What a weird fundraiser it's usually like chocolate or candles or a weird Christmas catalog not a huge box of onions
Does west virginia have onion scouts instead of girl scouts
My dad just told a story about how hed sometimes bite into a vidalia onion like an apple, and I had to work SO HARD to not say some version of "It's the sweeter than an apple vegetable" in front of God and my family and everyone.