Onions...What Is Spanish Onion, A Bermuda Onion..?

[Willy]

The title of this post says it all. What say you?

I mean, I "get" white, Vidalia (and other sweet onions) and red, though I'm not sure about how to distinguish between brown and yellow, which I tend to think are the same. Spanish and Bermuda are beyond me. The Internet has only added to my confusion.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts

[FireMan]

Spanish onion is from Spain
and a Bermuda onion is from the Bermuda Triangle!

Did you expect anything else?

[Willy]

Why yes, I did expect something else. ;-)

[yakima]

I take it that you are not interested in Seychelles onions.

[Mosca]

Huh. I just finished reading this:

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes https://a.co/d/iGXSmue

Bermuda onions are another kind of mild sweet onion, like Vidalia and Maui. Maui onions were bred from Bermuda onion seeds.

Spanish onion is the name for a common round onion. “In the United States today, “Spanish onion” might be a Stockton Red Globe, Early Yellow Globe, Australian Brown, White Portugal, Southport Yellow Globe, Red Wethersfield, Southport Red Globe, Italian Red, or Flat Madeira.”

The book was okay. I liked it enough.

[BBQPhil]

Was it one of those books that make you cry?

[yakima]

So, on the substantive side, re Walla Walla sweet onions. From, you guessed it, Walla Walla, Washington. In the beginning, and to some extent now, they were irrigated with city wastewater secondary treated effluent. You can drink tertiary treated effluent. I know, TMI.