"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 06:16:28 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>> wrote:
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>>>> They sell them all over my area of CA during season.
>>>
>>> That one appears in CA, but we also get the look alikes that are the
>>> same onion type but not grown in Walla Walla. I've seen Maui onions
>>> on occasion, but I've never seen Vidalia. There are lots of other
>>> sweet onions too, but they don't have the press/mystique of the
>>> others.
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>> We can get Vidalia here.
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> I'm lucky enough to have friends in Walla Walla that visit every year.
> They always bring some. They usually will have the WW sweets at Safeway
> for a very short time. Once they did advertise them in the ad, and when I
> got there, they were not WW sweets, they were Vidalias. Still very good,
> but not what was advertised. I believe Raley's has the Vidalias sometimes
> too.

They're not available for very long. And in looking them up, I see that
they are our state vegetable. I didn't even know that we had one!