An Alliaceous Esculent!

That title was picked off the first sentence in an 1824 article on onion growing in Great Britain.  It is so much fun to say!  Your tongue and mouth get a real workout.  To speak it aloud you needs to adopt a rather studied nonchalance.  It helps to raise one eyebrow.

The pungent rotundity of the onion images on seed packets is so captivating!  Those teensy weensy little seeds grow into wonderful heavy handfuls of yummy.

Wethersfield Connecticut is near here.  The Wethersfield onion was one of the onion superstars of the early centuries of our country.  

Great page on the Wethersfield Red has been posted by the New England Historical Society.
The Rise and Fall of the Wethersfield Red Onion

Yankee Magazine about "Oniontown".

Alien space ship onion hovering?