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He probably wears a fancy fur coat as well.

 

Don’t play it off as if you don’t make mirepoix from time to time as well.

 

But...the ratios, man. The ratios!

 

Exactly.

 

I do a hybrid. Onion, celery, carrot, pepper. Holy quaternary

 

Classic mirepoix is 2:1:1 (onion first) so Mongo is not only gifted, he is classic.

Garth -- that fancy word doesn't mean what you think it means. You ever take any geology or was that too elitist?

 

Oh don’t be fooled, Mongo knew the ratio. He’s trying to down play his fanciness. LOL


No, not too elitist. LOL. I love geology. It’s still a variant(?) of four, so I went with it because it sounded good because it ended in the letter “y”. Trinity. Quaternary. It’s four layers of chopped veggies. LOL.

 

You buy sweet onions by the ten pound bag too, I see...

 

By sweet onion do you mean Vidalia?

 

It's like Champagne. Vidalias grow in a very specific area around Vidalia Georgia. There are all kinds of rules as to what can be called a Vidalia. Grow them just outside of the area and they're sweet onions.

Visit the Vidalia Onion Museum the next time you're in the middle of nowhere SE Georgia.

 

Funny. France has rules like that about wine, Italy about cheese, and the states......about onions.....lol .

Everytime I use a vidalia I'm singing the Sammy Kershaw tune

 

Vidalia, Texas 1015's, Walla Walla, Maui, Osos, all kinds! Most sweet onions grown in the US are actually not from Vidalia (and either was their initial breeding), but since GA p-eaches kinda suck, I don't really want to rub it in.

<edit> California produces more sweet onions than any other state, mostly out of Imperial County (where the granex hybrid was developed).

 

The Gaffney Peach is a site to behold.