Humble onion thoughts
Warning! I’m having another ‘Princess Fiona’ (Shrek) moment!
Apparently, I transgressed in my last post by not using a picture of the onion flower. I apologize to all of you with green fingers and/or a sense of curiosity.
Anyway, the gentle inquiries of readers and friends triggered another ‘wise’ moment of contemplation about the humble onion. You see, the onion is the ugly duckling of the vegetable world, the Jekyll and Hyde, a Princess Fiona and ogre all rolled into one tear-making round ball of tastiness.
Meet the onion as we know it in every day life:
The humble yellow onion, or its more exuberant red cousin:
When it flowers, it really comes into its own! Like an ugly duckling transforming itself into a swan.
And my, my! Aren’t those flowers beautiful!
Truly lovely!
But the onion is not just about taste and looks: it is perky and has a great sense of humour. It is the clown of the vegetable world… Sometimes, it can transform from this:
Into this:
Don’t know about you, folks, but I’ll never look at an onion in the same way again…
Hade ingen aning om att lökarnas blommor var så vackra….
August 26, 2008 at 07:32
Yes, the last flower is particularly lovely!
August 26, 2008 at 08:38
oooh very pretty…yeah..maybe not the eagle so much!
August 26, 2008 at 19:59
LOL definitely will never look at a onion in the same way again!
April 30, 2009 at 18:10
sooo cute….so chhweet and bubbly look it is..(5th onion)
April 8, 2010 at 16:53
Hmm! yummy red onion r like red chins & like to have bite
..he he he
April 8, 2010 at 16:58
wat is dis nonsense…che! ,hey…vishwa u sholud nt comment like this
April 8, 2010 at 17:03
hye y? r u so jealous of it.
April 8, 2010 at 17:04
Ho ho…. Go!… y should i get jealous of vegetable…. improve a bit… atleast a fruit
April 8, 2010 at 17:07