On vacation in Chatham, Marash Girl decided to shop at the local farmer's market to buy her vegetables, rather than at the local Stop and Shop. The produce was at least twice the price of the vegetables at the supermarket, but worth every penny, she thought.
Onions . . . I need fresh onions, she thought, and so she whipped out a $5 bill and purchased a pound of onions. Happily returning back to the cottage, she placed the onions along with the garlic in a bowl on the kitchen counter, pleased that she would be serving her family fresh, tasty, local produce, but as it turned out, the weather turned hot and the meals she prepared, offsetting the weather, became fresh salads rather than simmered soups.
Less than a week passed before she and her family began smelling a stench that could be none other than a dead animal. A mouse? A chipmunk? Fresh fish that had fallen under the stove top? What could it be? The smell was unbearable. Everyone in the house started the hunt. Under the stove, in the stove, under the stove top units . . . nothing there. With the fan on to make it possible to enter the kitchen without gagging, we continued the hunt. Slowly the guests left (was it the stench that chased them away?), and Marash Girl continued the hunt --
The weather turned cool. Marash Girl decided to use the freshly harvested onions to prepare soup. . . By now, dear reader, you may have guessed the conclusion to this tale. The stench in the kitchen was not a dead animal, but rather a dying onion from the fresh produce she had purchased less than a week earlier!
Onions, bunions, Albanians (pronounced albunions by dad, who also declared them, 'good peeples (peoples). I know that when an onion goes bad, it is like a bunion. When an albunion goes bad they are like onions that have become bunions. So, the trick is to be an albunion that never becomes an onion old enough to become a bunion. Got that?
ReplyDeletePotatoes can raise a horrid stink when rotting, too.
ReplyDeleteBut why did such fresh onions rot so quickly? Never before have I had a rotten onion in my vegetable bin!
ReplyDeleteStoring Potatoes and onions in a dark cool place is quite acceptable, but perhaps they were placed adjacent to one another (which may be the reason for the accelerated ripening / rotting!
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