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Ironies and Onion Rings: The Layered Story of the Vidalia Onion
Gravy
English - July 03, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes - ★★★★★ - 533 ratingsFood Arts Society & Culture south southern americansouth food foodculture southernfood Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, as proudly claimed as the peach. But the story of the Vidalia’s popularity is far more complex than just one of a local onion made good. In this episode of Gravy: an onion’s success story, born of clever marketing, government wrangling, technological innovation and global trade.
This episode was co-produced by Tyler Pratt.
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If you know and love the Vidalia onion—an onion sweet enough, its fans say, to eat like an apple—you likely also know it as a product of Georgia, as proudly claimed as the peach. But the story of the Vidalia’s popularity is far more complex than just one of a local onion made good. In this episode of Gravy: an onion’s success story, born of clever marketing, government wrangling, technological innovation and global trade.
This episode was co-produced by Tyler Pratt.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices