Editing The Onion (section)

===Publication's name===
"People always ask questions about where the name ''The Onion'' came from," said former President Sean Mills in a 2007 interview with ''[[Wikinews]]''; "and, when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me... Literally that his uncle said he should call it ''The Onion'' when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich. They had literally just cut up the onion and put it on bread."<ref name="youtube_20131107">{{cite web
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfRlUI3ZCsY?si=erFOznXZ1aD5kScV&t=1075
|title=Onion Turns 25: Founder Who "Hasn't Done Shit There in 24 Years" Takes Credit - Tim Keck
|website=[[YouTube]]
|date=November 7, 2013
}}</ref> Former editorial manager Chet Clem believed this to be plausible, recollecting also in a 2007 interview that their food budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white bread and onions. In the same ''[[University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire|Spectator News]]'' interview, graphic editor Mike Loew forwarded the theory an "onion" was 1930s newspaper slang for a "juicy, multi-layered story".

The onion sandwich theory had been referenced in many news sources when then editor-in-chief Cole Bolton, during a 2021 event at the [[University of Chicago]], called that story "the dumbest explanation" and asserted that it is likely wrong. According to Bolton, the most plausible explanation is that ''The Onion'' was mocking a campus newsletter called ''The Union''.<ref name="thejeffdwoskincomedyshow92_202201">{{cite podcast
|url=https://jeffisfunny.com/2022/01/92-scott-dikkers-pulls-back-the-onion/
|title=#92 Scott Dikkers Peels Back The Onion
|website=jeffisfunny.com
|publisher=The Jeff Dwoskin Comedy Show
|host=Jeff Dwoskin
|date=January 1, 2022
|access-date=December 11, 2022
|archive-date=January 4, 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104033017/https://jeffisfunny.com/2022/01/92-scott-dikkers-pulls-back-the-onion/
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name="spectatornews_20070208">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.spectatornews.com/showcase/2007/02/08/layers-of-the-onion/
|title=Layers of the Onion
|date=February 8, 2007
|magazine=The Spectator
|access-date=June 20, 2015
|archive-date=June 20, 2015
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620234644/http://www.spectatornews.com/showcase/2007/02/08/layers-of-the-onion/
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name="wikinews_20071124">[[n:The Onion: An interview with 'America's Finest News Source'|An interview with ''The Onion'']], David Shankbone, ''[[Wikinews]]'', November 24, 2007.</ref><ref name="universityofchicago_instituteofpolitics_20150420">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PaI5dC3IM8&t=48m33s | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211102/0PaI5dC3IM8| archive-date=November 2, 2021 | url-status=live|title=IOP-Mocking the Man: How Satire Helps Deepen Our Understanding of the World Featuring Cole Bolton |date=April 20, 2015 |access-date=June 20, 2015 |website=[[YouTube]] |publisher=[[University of Chicago Institute of Politics]] }}{{cbignore}}</ref>