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answer to my vidalia question from tv guy

Daveroo

Daveroo

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Hi Auburn Dave:

Thanks for watching the show. We appreciate it.

No Vidalia Onion can be grown here, sold under that name. There is a strict 14 county area in Georgia where the Vidalia can be grown. If it’s not grown in that region, it can’t be called a Vidalia. So, yes, they are shipped all the way from Georgia . Same with a Walla Walla Onion. There are certainly sweet Onions grown here. A few growers in Apple Hill grow a “Hangtown Sweetie.” A sweet Onion is generally a “short day” Onion, which means it was planted in the Fall and over-wintered during the short days of Winter. “Long day” Onions are planted in the Spring, and grown during the long days of summer. These would be the Onions we harvest this Fall as our “storage” onions. So if you bought seed for a “short day” Onion and planted in October, you could harvest in the Spring. Of course, what makes the sweet Onions even sweeter is the low sulfur soil they are grown in. The sulfuric compounds in an Onion that make the Onion strong, or makes you cry, comes from the soil.

I hope that helps.

Michael Marks
Your Produce Man
 
Every onion has its partisans, but speaking as one who lives in Ga, not that far from Vidalia, and having been educated by a Georgia belle about the fine points of cooking and eating Vidalia onions, I can vouch for them as probably the best onions I've ever had. Not many tears, an easy cook and a superb taste whether used cut up plain or sauteed.
 
At work, we have an Onion Room....and in that room, 40 thousand pounds of onions are sliced, diced, chopped and packaged EVERY DAY! The back half of the plant reeks of onions....and the people who work in that room come out looking like they have been maced! In our department, we package bulk onions on a fairly regular basis....no cutting involved....just stuff a yellow, a red and a white onion into a mesh sack and close the sack. Dealing with those onions in the tons and tons is bad enough...but I really do not want to spend even an hour in the Onion Room.

OBIO
 
SSI01 said:
Every onion has its partisans, but speaking as one who lives in Ga, not that far from Vidalia, and having been educated by a Georgia belle about the fine points of cooking and eating Vidalia onions, I can vouch for them as probably the best onions I've ever had. Not many tears, an easy cook and a superb taste whether used cut up plain or sauteed.
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I can verify this, as I live just about as far out of Vidalia as SSI01, and my Georgia peach has educated me in the finer points of onions also...:wavey:

(they ARE really, really good.....)

SSI01, I live in Cochran, just a short drive to Vidalia....
 
The wife is the native, she may know where Cochran is. I'll ask her. Being from metro Detroit, I sometimes have to field questions relating to how a dazzling urbanite like myself has wound up in such "rustic" settings. I have only to point to my bride as the reason, she is a FLETC war bride - the plot for how that happened is roughly out of "The Horse Soldiers" by John Ford. Nobody tore up any RR tracks, but I did work for CSX for 8 years. There have been a few of those war brides over the years; but rather than having this one adapt to some unfamiliar surroundings upon retirement, I wanted to take her back home as a treat for putting up with her share of govt BS over the years. It helps us take care of her mom as well, she's 88 and her mitral valve isn't doing too well. We're basically her only support, and my wife missed being with her all those years we were with the gov - now she can help make up her absence by taking care of her mom. It helps them both.

I can assure you a bag of Vidalias has an honored place in our kitchenette here in the apt!
 
Hey All,

And yet no vidalia is as good as a walla walla sweet - best onions on planet earth! :applause:

-Ed-
 
I have to throw in my $.02 worth as I dearly love the 1015Y yellow onions available in Texas. I find they're a little sweeter and less "hot" than Vidalias. The 1015Ys were developed about 20-25 years by Texas A&M and the 1015 means they have to be planted by October 15. I once heard they were working on a white onion, but I've never seen them in the store. As is it, we have my kids periodically ship 20-30- lbs. of 1015Ys up here in Albuquerque since what we get in the store just don't taste the same. Next year the kids will have to ship onions to Florida, but Vidalias should be easily found.

Bob
 
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