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- <title>
- July 16, 1990: A Kinder, Gentler Onion
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 16, 1990 Twentysomething
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- A Kinder, Gentler Onion
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- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> The humble onion that stung taste buds and left telltale
- traces on the breath is being eclipsed by new, less pungent
- breeds. They include such varieties as the 1015 out of Texas,
- the Imperial Sweet (California) and the Maui (Hawaii). Never
- mind that some of these hybrids pack all the consistency and
- taste of an unripe cantaloupe; never mind that they may serve
- to decorate a salad but will do nothing to spice up a stew. The
- National Onion Association reports that, thanks largely to the
- new designer hybrids, consumers are no longer holding their
- noses and that U.S. consumption of onions has jumped 50% over
- the past ten years.
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- </body>
- </article>
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