Why does an onion make you cry? It’s the high sulfur content, absorbed from the soil. But if you happen to grow an onion where the winters are mild, the rain is regular, and the sulfur is low, that’s a story with a sweeter ending.
In the 1930s, a farmer named Ed Tensley came to Georgia to teach local farmers about the benefits of crop rotation, introducing onions as one of the rotating crops.
A few years later, as the Great Depression swept the United States, farmer Mose Coleman noted the sandy soil of Toombs County, Georgia produced a sweet-tasting onion, and began selling his unusual crop from a trailer he made from the back of a Model T.He recounts a meeting with a buyer at a grocery store chain: “I pulled out my onion and I ate it there in front…
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