Fun Facts: Vidalia Sweet Onions
Vidalia Sweet Onions have a sweet, subtle taste. These are the most popular Onions for Pizza, Onion Rings, Salads and Soups. People eat them raw on Sandwiches, in Salads and for making Salsa.
🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅
▶️ Mose Coleman of Toombs County accidentally discovered the Vidalia onion during the Great Depression.
▶️ Piggly Wiggly was the first retail store to sell Vidalias.
▶️ The Vidalias are named after the town they are grown in, Vidalia, Georgia.
▶️ The sweet flavor is due to the low amount of sulfur in the soil in which the onions are grown.
▶️ It can be called a Vidalia only if it's grown in one of 20 counties designated by the the Vidalia Onion Act of 1986.
▶️ The Vidalia Onion was named Georgia's Official State Vegetable in 1990.
▶️ Farmers grow Vidalias on more than 14,000 acres.
▶️ There is a 1,300-square-foot Vidalia Onion Museum that is filled with exhibits that highlight the sweet onion's economic, cultural and culinary significance.
▶️ Vidalia sales now total $90 million, 40 percent of the nation's spring onion crop.
▶️ Around 5-million 40 pound boxes are shipped out each year.
🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅
#vidaliaonions #vidaliaga #tamishomeandpantry