Selling Vidalia Onions Online: A Personal Story of Specialty Produce
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Summary
The article is a personal narrative about selling Vidalia onions online. The author describes Vidalia onions as sweet onions with mild flavor that some people can eat like apples. The piece includes a memorable anecdote about a customer who smuggled Vidalia onions onto a cruise ship and had them added to his salads during meals. The content focuses on the personal experience of selling these specialty onions and the passion customers have for them.
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During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he smuggled some Vidalias onto his vacation cruise ship, and during each meal, would instruct the server to 'take this onion to the back, chop it up, and add it onto my salad'.
Folks who love Vidalias, love Vidalias.
Most of my customers do.
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