...perhaps most because they don't make me sick but also, because they're a delicious, delicious food and even also because it prevents sickness and cures many ills and is a handy food to use for magick. have any random onion queries?
what's that?
whut?
whut?
How many pounds of fresh and storage type onions does the average American eat per year?
19 pounds.
How many truck loads of onions are consumed each day?
Nearly 380 semi-truck loads.
What country boasts the highest per capita consumption of onions?
Libya, with 66.8 pounds of onions consumed per person each year.
How many calories are in a serving of onions?
How many onion farmers are there in the United States?30 calories.
According to an old English Rhyme, the thickness of an onion skin can help predict what?About 1,000.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, how much did the largest onion ever grown weigh?The severity of the winter. Thin skins mean a mild winter is coming while thick skins indicate a rough winter ahead.
In what famous story was the Seven-of-Spades threatened to be beheaded for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions?10 pounds 14 ounces. It was grown by
V. Throup of Silsden, England.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
* my period thanks the national (american) onion association for knowing about and growing us lots of fine onions (but buy local).
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i went for lunch today with someone who didn't like onions. i nearly stabbed her in the jaw with my fork.....but instead ate the onions she picked off her plate, with the fork previously mentioned. she's an allright fella.....'cept for her lack of onion love
yeah, onion-hatin' makes anyone lose points in my book. it's as absurd as raisin-hatin'. people like that are lucky i like them at all. we should dream up a really rad dish which includes both and forcefeed it to these kinds of "people."
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