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Article: Vidalia's sweet success rooted in onions
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 21, 1987
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VIDALIA, Ga. Across the sandy plains of southeast Georgia, folks
hit their knees every night and thank the Lord for onions.
However, the onions of their affections are no ordinary
tear-jerkers. These are sweet Vidalia onions, good as gold to those
who raise them and pure passion to those who crave them.
"We feel like the Vidalia onion is the best thing since sliced
bread," said Delbert Bland, who, along with his mother, father and
sisters, runs Bland Farms, the biggest producer of Vidalia onions.
"But they're fragile. In a manner of minutes, a freeze can wipe
out your whole crop," Bland said. "You do a lot of praying. You're
real close to the Lord when you grow Vidalia onions."
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