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Paula visits Bland Farms and learns the difference between vidalia onions and regular onions and why vidalia onions are sweeter and more digestible. Paula also learns how to make sure you pick the right onion and how to store them.
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one of the grand things about living in
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Savannah is our beautiful weather we
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grill year round while other people are
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freezing we're basking in the Sun and we
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do a lot of barbecuing and I wouldn't
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think about starting my barbecue grill
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today without first seeing my friend
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Dilbert and his father Ray at Bland Farm
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hey Delbert hey Paul how are you today
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I'm fine good to see you again good hi
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you know my father no I don't this is
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not the famous Raymond is that's him
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that's the patriarch a whole
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bunch yes well you're our hero here
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Raymond well what are you doing well we
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got a few V onions here we thought you
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were coming so we got them out for you
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and got them ready for you they're
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beautiful they're very sweet they are
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enjoy Delbert I've been a fan of your
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onions for years but I have come here
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today to find out the difference between
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a via and the regular onions that we get
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in the store oh that's simple Paulo the
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difference between a via and a regular
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onion is the vas only make a cry when
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they're
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gone oh that's pretty good yes there's a
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lot of Truth in that though you know
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normal onions are burn your throat to
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give your heartburn man V is they go
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down so smooth you won't even know you
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eat any of them and why is that well
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it's a combination of several things
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it's the low sulfur content in our soil
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here and it's also the low sulfur
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content in our surface water that we use
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the irrigate crops with and then plus
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the ozone layer has a special layer to
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it here that's heaves to the sweetness
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of the onion and we never really figured
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it out but we didn't spend a lot of time
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worrying about it we just make them and
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sell them when I'm standing in front of
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the onion being at the grocery store how
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do I tell whether I'm looking at a vinea
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onion or not well the first indication
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would be all of our onions that we ship
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we put a little signature on it it says
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via sweet onions from Bland farms and it
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also has got the 1800 via number so you
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can call and make sure you are buying
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via so we really decals are a good way
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of showing and identifying this onion
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because on the surface this onion
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actually looks like a lot of other
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onions the big difference is the way it
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tastes it has more sugar content than an
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orange actually really yes yes and you'd
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be surprised how many people's misled
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because you know the everybody's trying
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to Market a sweet onion now you see them
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everywhere but in reality there's
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nothing like a V what is the best way to
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store an onion when they're out of
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season if you have room in your
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refrigerator ideal way is to wrap each
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one of them in newspaper and that
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creates a it keeps the humidity out of
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them and put them in the bottom of your
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refrigerator but if room does not permit
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that you can actually take this onion
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believe it or not
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and you put it in a panty hose and you
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tie a knot in between each one of them
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and not let them touch and hang out in a
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dry place like in your basement or
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whatever and you would be amazed at how
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long they would keep that's how I used
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to store mine I would tie a knot in
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between them and when I needed one I'd
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go get my scissors and cut that one off
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and then keep going until they were all
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gone yes it's really neat how can you
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tell the freshest onions in the bin what
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you look for in an onion
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opposite to a strawberry whatever is you
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look for a firm onion that is completely
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dry and make sure that the stem is dry
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and you don't have any moisture in there
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because that's where a lot of your
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moisture and your and the Decay comes
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into onions through the stem but if it's
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a good dry stem dry feeling you more
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than likely you have a good product girl
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if you don't mind I'm ready to be loaded
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up CU I got some cooking to do honey you
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got the money we got the time we ready
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to load you up
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