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unusual facts about onion


Chicago Sketch Fest

In addition to the events, writing workshops were added, including Joe Garden- head writer from the Onion, and John Vorhaus-author of "The Comic Toolbox".


A. chinense

Allium chinense, the Chinese onion, Chinese scallion, Japanese scallion or Oriental onion, an edible species of wild onion found in Asia

A. giganteum

Allium giganteum, the giant onion, a perennial edible medicinal plant species

Acrolepiopsis sapporensis

The Asiatic Onion Leafminer (Acrolepiopsis sapporensis) is a moth of the Acrolepiidae family.

Arequipan cuisine

Chairo is a beef broth marinated with yellow hot pepper, garlic, onion, spices, black chuño (a root), pieces of cured meat, tongue of lamb and patasca (a pork and corn stew).

At the Purple Onion

It features Breau, Francks, and Henstridge with Joey Hollingsworth — one vocal and also tap dancing — performing at the Purple Onion club in Toronto, Canada.

Bhaji on the Beach

In Mumbai, Pav Bhaji is a popular beach side snack food, consisting of bhaji (a thick potato-based curry) garnished with coriander, chopped onion, and a dash of lemon and lightly toasted pav (a type of bread).

Black Market Reloaded

Black Market Reloaded was a .onion hidden Tor website which sold illegal drugs and other illegal goods such as stolen credit cards and firearms.

Bonda

Some regional variants in Kerala replace the potato with tapioca (Tapioca Bonda) or sweet potato and some onion, hard boiled egg (Mutta Bonda), masala, minced meat and other ingredients.

Carrot salad

In Brazilian cuisine, churrasco service often includes potato salad and carrot salad made with mayonnaise, raw onion, green peas, sweetcorn or sometimes chayote squashes.

Chaat

There are common elements among these variants including dahi, or yogurt; chopped onions and coriander; sev (small dried yellow salty noodles); and chaat masala, typically consisting of amchoor (dried mango powder), cumin, Kala Namak (rock salt), coriander, dried ginger, salt, black pepper, and red pepper.

Colocasia with lamb

Ingredients: Colocasia esculenta, lamb chunks, onion,juice of half a lemon, flour, butter,salt.

Denver sandwich

A Denver sandwich, also known as a Western sandwich, consists of a Denver omelette (consisting of at least ham, onion, green pepper, and scrambled eggs), sandwiched between two pieces of bread.

Family names in North Karnataka

Surnames drawn from Food Items are Balikai (Banana), Bendikai (Okra), Bellolli (Garlic), ULLagaDDi (Onion), MeNasinakai (Chilli), Tenginakai (Coconut), Byali (Pulse/Dal), Tuppa (Ghee), Palle (Vegetable), Guggari (Boiled Food grains), Churamari (Bhel), Sajji (A type of Food grain), Akki (Rice), Jola (Jawar)

Garlic allergy

These chemicals occur in oils of plants of the genus Allium, including garlic, onion and leek.

Hackett Catholic Central High School

Megan Ganz ('02): Writer on the NBC series Community and a former editor of The Onion.

Hōtō

Vegetables differ by season; negi, onions, and potatoes are commonly included during the summer, while taro, carrots, and Chinese cabbage make up the winter ingredients, along with various types of mushrooms such as shiitake and shimeji.

Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods

For the original brand of chips, they included Regular, BBQ, Ketchup, Dill Pickle, Salt and Vinegar, Roast Chicken, Sour Cream and Onion, Smokin' Bacon, and a St-Hubert rotisserie chicken flavour.

Hushpuppy

Typical hushpuppy ingredients include cornmeal, wheat flour, eggs, salt, baking soda, milk or buttermilk, and water, and may include onion, spring onion (scallion), garlic, whole kernel corn, and peppers.

Idli

These idlis are served with sambar and also with more than three varieties of chutney like coconut chutney, cilantro chutney, onion chutney and mint.

Jack Szwergold

Szwergold convinced The Onion Editor and Publisher Scott Dikkers that a Web site would increase readership, and The Onions site launched in May 1996.

Kairi ka do pyaza

Dopiaza is an onion gravy preparation with a souring agent.

Khushka Rice

The spices and condiments used in biryani may include but are not limited to: cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaves, coriander and mint leaves, apart from ghee, ginger, onions.

Largo David Alves

At first, he came by medical advice, he came back regularly, stating "This is the only beach in Portugal where the seafood aroma is not neutralized by the ladies wardrobes. One can see in here the old rush nature, the Cabeceiras majorat, and all the Fidalgos who dine hake with onion".

Leek moth

The leek moth or onion leaf miner (Acrolepiopsis assectella) is a species of moths of family Acrolepiidae, genus Acrolepiopsis, a pest of leek crops.

Meeshay

In the original dish of meeshay, also called Mogok Meeshay, the meat is cooked in a light sauce with onion, and is mixed with rice noodles.

MFN1

This protein and mitofusin 2 are homologs of the Drosophila protein fuzzy onion (Fzo).

Moore's Crossing Historic District

It was completed in 1922 and took Burleson Road across Onion Creek to Farm to Market Road 973.

In 1915, three of six spans from the 1884 iron Congress Avenue Bridge, which had been put into storage in 1910, were used to construct a bridge at Moore's Crossing (formerly Onion Creek Bridge).

Patterson River

Non-indigenous floral species include the sheep's burr, angled onion, lesser joyweed, broom spurge, common swamp wallaby grass, pointed centrolepis, common spikerush and small spikerush.

Pearl onion

Larry Wall's yearly serious State of the Onion speeches about advancements in Perl programming, an allusion to the many layers of the language, are named as a pun both on the pearl onion and the US presidents' State of the Union addresses.

Perdeli pilav

Perdeli pilav is a Turkish food of rice with chicken, onion and peanuts enveloped in a thin layer of dough, topped with almonds.

Pissaladière

The dough is usually a bread dough thicker than that of the classic Italian pizza, and the traditional topping consists of caramelised (almost pureed) onions, olives, garlic and anchovies (either whole or in the form of pissalat, a type of anchovy paste).

Puchero

In Philippine cuisine, pochero is composed of the following ingredients: 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into parts, 1/2 kilo pork, cut into cubes, 1/2 kilo beef for stewing, cut into chunk cubes, 8 cups water 6 minced cloves garlic minced, 5 pieces Saba banana, 5 pieces boiled potatoes, quartered, 5 pieces boiled sweet potatoes, quartered, 4 pieces chorizo bilbao, 2 tablespoons oil,1 teaspoon salt, 1 bundle onion leeks,1 cup chickpeas, 1 sliced bundle cabbage and a Pinch salt & pepper.

Ratatouille

Some cooks, including Julia Child, insist on a layering approach, where the aubergine and the courgette are sautéed separately, while the tomatoes, onion, garlic and bell peppers are made into a sauce.

Red onion

The red onion from Turda (Cluj County, Central Romania) (Romanian: "Ceapa de Turda") is a local variety of red onion with light sweeter taste and particular aroma.

Roger Gray

He published a 1963 study concluding that the Onion Futures Act, which was designed to prevent market manipulation in onion prices by banning onion futures trading, had actually increased onion price volatility.

Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course has several nicknames: The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), the House of Upsets, and the Graveyard of Champions. Famous race horse Man o' War suffered his only defeat in twenty-one starts while racing at Saratoga Race Course; Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga Race Course by Onion, after winning the Triple Crown; and Gallant Fox had been beaten by the 100-1 longshot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes.

Seeon Abbey

The Romanesque towers are reminiscent of Freising Cathedral and, like the Frauenkirche at Munich, have copper "onion towers", which were added after a fire in 1561.

To Charles Fort, with Love

Two of the stories have received the International Horror Guild Award: "Onion" (Best Short Fiction, 2001) and "La Peau Verte" (Best Mid-Length Fiction, 2005).

Uncle Ray's

Uncle Ray's LLC (formerly Cabana Foods) specializes in Potato chips and other snack foods such as onion rings, pretzels and cheese curls.

Vidalia onion

The 1999 album Oh! The Grandeur, by American musician Andrew Bird, includes a song called 'Vidalia', an ode to the onion in question.

Vincent Kosuga

The Jolly Onion Inn (now known as Ye Jolly Onion Inn) became one of the most popular restaurants in Orange County.

Wild onion dinner

"Wild onion" refers to several plant species but most commonly Allium vineale or Allium canadense.

Wrong Things

Kiernan's solo contribution to the book, "Onion", received the 2001 International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story and was chosen for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifteenth Annual Collection (edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow; St. Martin's, 2001).

Yellow onion

It has a rich onion taste and is fit for food dishes like French onion soup.


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