Vegetable News of the Day
posted by on April 5 at 14:30 PM
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
Here’s some news that should excite foodies across the state.
House Bill 1556, “Designating the Walla Walla sweet onion as the official Washington state vegetable,” has passed both the House and Senate!
Updates will be made available as the many the layers of this story are peeled away.
that looks way dark for a Walla Walla, closer to the coloring of a plain yellow
Shape of a plain yellow, too.
Well, now those look like salad onions.
http://www.sweetonions.org/
Wait a minute - I thought Ken Schram already held this honorific...
Yep, the Potato lobby that stopped the bill last year, gave its blessing this year. Third graders with an abnormal interest in civics are overjoyed.
Next: Apple v. Cherry for state fruit
Apple!
Raspberry!
Apples and Raspberries are fat and stupid.
so's your butt.
Cherry! Apple is too obvious.
Cherries are gross!
Score for Eastern Washington!
As a lover of Washington Asparagus and Yakima Hopps I am outraged.
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