If an onion variety could be bred that was truly dessert sweet: It could produce as planted each year. (apple and orange trees take years to produce) It would be an easy crop for the home gardner. It would add a little more variety to life.-- hangingchad, Nov 04 2004 onions are bulbs... http://aggie-hortic.../onions/onions.html...they lurk in the soil waiting to grow. apples and oranges are fruit and sweet; designed to attract whatever/whoever to eat them and to distribute the seeds contained within. [po, Nov 04 2004] Wonderful Washington Sweet Onion http://www.foodprod...=30303-super-onionsPurportedly nearly sweet enough to eat by itself as a cool dessert. [jurist, Nov 05 2004] Even if a sweet onion could be bred, people couldn't get rid of the mental picture of the taste of an onion, and probably wouldn't think of it as something nice for dessert.-- Pericles, Nov 04 2004 Mmmm..Onions and sweet carrot cream.-- skinflaps, Nov 04 2004 po really knows her onions.-- etherman, Nov 04 2004 Actually, if onions are cooked gently, for a long time, they become sweet.-- angel, Nov 04 2004 Just think of eating a tangy, crunchy cold sweet onion. Or, think of chocolate covered onion rings, or onion custard pie, or perhaps cold onionaide in the summertime. Since it is a bulb [po] there are no seeds and since it is an onion there is hardly any skin to remove. Yum, yum.-- hangingchad, Nov 04 2004 Well, they already have onion marmalade. You might like that.-- Machiavelli, Nov 04 2004 The Morrocans cook the most incredible three-layer coucous. Fragrant coucous as a bed, a sort of lamb and vegetable stew on top of that and a topping of sweet red onions fried in caramel and saffron. Not dessert, but sweet and yummy anyway.-- wagster, Nov 04 2004 The only dessert good enough to bring a tear to your eye.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 05 2004 //The only dessert good enough to ...//
(excepting "tear"-amisu, of course)-- jurist, Nov 05 2004 Of course.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 05 2004 random, halfbakery