# is it me or are the vidalia onions this year too sulfuric? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233 "2002-05-28T19:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![domesticatedjunglefowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@domesticatedjunglefowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domesticatedjunglefowl)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/1 "2002-05-28T19:57:39Z")
I bought a couple of vidalias yesterday and they are sweet but they didn’t have the mildness that bestowed ‘household name’ status upon them. ---
**Author:** ![ArturoBandini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@ArturoBandini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArturoBandini)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/2 "2002-05-31T05:48:20Z")
Vidalia onion farmers say they’ve had a horrible, horrible crop this year. They are currently discussing receiving subsidies/aid from the gov’t. Too bad, vidalias make the best onion rings. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/3 "2002-05-31T12:24:19Z")
I got a box of them last week and so far they’ve all been outstanding, so I don’t know. Then again, even a bad vidalia is better than a good yellow Spanish sweet, so who am I to judge? ---
**Author:** ![domesticatedjunglefowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@domesticatedjunglefowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domesticatedjunglefowl)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/4 "2002-05-31T14:18:57Z")
IMO the walla walla’s make the best onion rings, but to each his own. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/5 "2002-05-31T14:21:17Z")
The ones that I bought really were as sharp as a yellow onion. They taste good, but I’ll be cooking with them instead of using them in salad, as I had planned. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/6 "2002-05-31T22:55:11Z")
I can’t tell the difference between vidalia onions and regular yellow onions. ---
**Author:** ![cbtcad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@cbtcad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbtcad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/7 "2002-06-01T02:14:23Z")
True the crop was bad this year, but you also have to beware becuse sometimes a company gets the idea to sell non-Vidalia onions under the Vidalia name. ([Company Charged with Selling Fake Vidalias](http://www.efg.org/pr5.nsf/newsdocs/47E50815D44C601C85256A13000C4458?OpenDocument) ) So if the onions are espcually bad there is a chance they aren’t Vidalias at all. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/8 "2002-06-01T04:57:12Z")
Thank you! I was wondering if it was just me. the ones I got were not nearly as sweet as in previous years so I have been sauteeing them instead. I’ll just have to wait for the Farmers Market to start up in two weeks so I can get some decent ones ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-me-or-are-the-vidalia-onions-this-year-too-sulfuric/111233/9 "2002-06-01T13:07:32Z")
[Here](http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/0602/01onions.html) is an article in today’s Atlanta paper about this year’s disastrous Vidalia onion harvest.