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the only vegetable confident enough to make you cry before you've even eaten it
means A round, layered bulb vegetable with a pungent flavor and aroma, used as a staple in cooking around the world.
from From Old French 'oignon,' which traces back to Latin 'unionem' (accusative of 'unio'). That Latin word meant both 'a single large pearl' and 'onion' — a farmer's metaphor, since both are single rounded things made of layers. The 'one-ness' idea comes from 'unus,' Latin for 'one,' making 'onion' a distant cousin of 'union' and 'unity' — a vegetable named for being all of one piece, even as it peels apart in your hands.
- tear chemistry
- Releases a gas that becomes acid on your eyeballs
- ancient currency
- Egyptians paid pyramid workers partly in onions
- buried with pharaohs
- Placed in tombs as symbols of eternity
- layer math
- Concentric rings are stored leaf bases, not skins
- chill trick
- Cold onions release less eye-stinging gas
vidalia onion — sweet onion variety from vidalia, georgia, protected by geographic designation since 1986
walla walla sweet onion — mild onion variety from walla walla valley in washington state, washington's official state vegetable
the onion — satirical news organization founded in 1988 in madison, wisconsin, now with global readership