Other types of onions

[otyikondo]

I give you...





and her alter ego




Interesting test, BTW...

Google has:
68,100 hits for The Lady of Shallot
and
277,000 for The Lady of Shalott

So people know their onions, though not terribly well...

[Karhunkoski]

Having identified this gap in my general knowledge, I hunted out some onion facts.

After the first one, I wondered where the article was heading:

The wise Egyptians worshipped the onion

I then wondered if Russel Crowe had failed to do his research properly:

Roman gladiators were rubbed down with onion in order to firm up their muscles.

In the Middle Ages onions were such an important food to the Europeans that they were used as currency to pay for essentials such as rent

No, really, you can pay me in a lump sum at the end of the year.

In Siberia onions were still used as a form of currency up to the mid-18th Century.

Now that is just farking backward.

But perhaps "cash" was "multifunctional" back then:

Cold feet are a thing of the past if there’s a spare onion around – some claim that a rub of freezing toes with an onion is all you need to get the circulation going again.

And finally, if you are desperate to get rid of the smell of paint from a newly decorated room simply place a cut onion in its centre.

But perhaps a bucket of dung would have a similar effect?

(But if you live in Oulu, you can simply open a window and forget both)



http://onions.org.uk/facts/facts.htm

[Karhunkoski]

The official state vegetable of Georgia is the Vidalia onion.

the thickness of an onion skin can help predict the severity of the winter. Thin skins mean a mild winter is coming while thick skins indicate a rough winter ahead.

[sammy]

Probably the only state or country with an official VEGETABLE!

Not so sure... there are probably many heads of state who would rather comfortably fit into that category

[mCowboy]

and then there's siveyden sipuli

[sammy]

and then there's siveyden sipuli

...and sipulikirkko! Here's another one. Not too difficult to guess whence the nickname...

[littlefrank]

A double double post.

[littlefrank]

Thought you might have been peeling onions when you posted

[Matula]

Hrmpf... in the army we got coffee that was marked "prisoners and conscripts" and VR used to have the cargo vans marked "only animal or army transport"...

Nowadays it's illegal to transport animals in such conditions.

[Karhunkoski]

even the Pirkka onions are from New Zealand

Nice contribution, thanks Hank.

[catfish78]

check this out

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080201/sc ... 0201200140

[sinikala]

http://onions.org.uk/facts/facts.htm

Whoever wrote that page really knows their onions.

Groans to self and simultaneously loses the will to live.