After rotten onion uproar, southern Brooklyn stands behind local supermarket • Brooklyn Paper

After rotten onion uproar, southern Brooklyn stands behind local supermarket • Brooklyn Paper

When Michele Heart posted to a Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Bensonhurst community Facebook group complaining that La Bella Marketplace, one of the neighborhood's few independent supermarkets, had sold her a bad onion, she probably didn’t expect to go viral.  But in a corner of Brooklyn where loyalty to local businesses runs deep, the onion uproar quickly spiraled into meme-worthy chaos. Heart claimed that after purchasing the offending onion fr…