Tobacco onions, despite their slightly perplexing name, don’t have any tobacco in them. Though the true inventor of these onions is a bit unclear, these delicious, crispy-fried onion strings definitely received their name because of their resemblance to dried tobacco leaves. We’ll repeat it one last time though: these onions are tobacco and nicotine free. Some say it was celebrity chef Dean Fearing who created them while others say it was British chef Paul Heathcote.