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Joined: January 26 2008
Location: PA, USA
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Points: 4335
Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:18
We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
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Points: 32995
Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:11
Slartibartfast wrote:
No and since I watch a lot of cooking shows I should have verified first.
I just thought it might be a common name in the States. It wouldn't be called that here anyway. Although it is from Old English and before that Old germanic according to Wiki.
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Points: 29630
Posted: December 19 2010 at 07:21
Vidalia is a sweet variety grown in Georgia. Leeks are like really big green onions. Ramps are wild found in the Appalachians. (I still haven't had any fiddle head fersn.) Never had any Welsh, just saw them as a variety of green when I looked it up. Maui are another variety of sweet and I apologize for leaving out the Washington Walla Walla. Pearls are probably my least favorite variety, they are rather small and not too tender or tasty.
Edited by Slartibartfast - December 19 2010 at 07:44
Joined: August 18 2008
Location: Anna Calvi
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Points: 22989
Posted: December 19 2010 at 07:12
Green along with cheese and other breakfasts, or along certain soups. Red I like for the same purposes. Yellow I use for cooking. Great vegetable. I don't know what Vidalia, Leek, Ramp, Welsh, Maui and Pearl are.
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