Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — An Odorless Onion. [ARTICLE]

An Odorless Onion.

The latest product of scientific propagation Is the odorless onion. Just how an onion can be odorless and still remain an onion is not explained. To most people the odor is all there is of an onion, and. that is enough. The elimination of the characteristic feature of a vegetable of such long and strong standing in natural history ought to be reckoned among the proudest achievements of man. But an onion deprived of that delicious tang and the penetrating scent that goes with it can hardly be an onion. The palate which loves onions will not recognize it; calling a whitened, inocuous, insipid, plated bulb an onion will not make it one. He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.—Montaign.