Ode To The Onion by Pablo Neruda
Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your belly grew round with dew.
Under the earth
the miracle
happened
and when your clumsy
green stem appeared,
and your leaves were born
like swords
in the garden,
the earth heaped up her power
showing your naked transparency,
and as the remote sea
in lifting the breasts of Aphrodite
duplicating the magnolia,
so did the earth
make you,
onion
clear as a planet
and destined
to shine,
constant constellation,
round rose of water,
upon
the table
of the poor.
You make us cry without hurting us.
I have praised everything that exists,
but to me, onion, you are
more beautiful than a bird
of dazzling feathers,
heavenly globe, platinum goblet,
unmoving dance
of the snowy anemone
and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crystalline nature.
Ode to the Bloomin’ Onion by kongoboken
There are 687 Outback Steakhouses (as of October 2023). Only 4 states have NO Outback’s: North Dakota, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont. Even Hawaii (5) and Alaska (1) have at least one. Florida has the most – makes sense since the FIRST Outback was opened in Tampa in 1988. There is one in Edgewater, NJ and I ate there when they first opened and yes, I had a Bloomin Onion, and yes it was GREAT.
Over the years, I’ve shied away from The Outback, not because of their steaks (which were decent enough), but because of that Bloomin Onion. I WANTED one but I’d remember reading things like it contained the caloric equivalent of 3 days of eating. And it had enough fat to kill Godzilla. It purportedly had turned 6 people in Australia into Salt Sticks. I’d be a FOOL to eat a Bloomin Onion. But still, something gnawed at me…. is it THAT bad.
Well let’s look:
- Salt – 200% of a normal day’s intake. Effect – you piss it out.
- Calories – 1950 No doubt about it, THAT’S a lot of calories. Best to be on a diet/lifestyle that doesn’t count calories, methinks.
- Fat – 160grams, this is good on a Carnivore/Keto diet but terrible on the Standard American Diet (SAD).
- Carbs – 117grams, surprisingly low until I read the onion is a low-carb vegetable.
- Sugar – 28grams, a drop in the bucket on the SAD but terrible on Carnivore/Keto
- Protein – 18grams, (who cares) you’re going to have a steak or a burger WITH this Bloomin Onion!! WTF
In Summary:
I just cannot get past that Sugar number Soooooo, I’m going to share my Bloomin Onion with my Lovely Wife. 14 grams of Sugar is not a problem with me.
Merry Christmas Eve to all.
kongoboken 