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Onion State?
State senator ‘boldly’ Other state symbols
suggests pungent bulb as Fruit: apple.
Muffin: apple muffin.
state’s official vegetable. Beverage: milk.
Animal: beaver.
By Debra J. Groom Bird: bluebird.
Staff writer
Fish: fresh water, brook
They’re pungent. They cook trout; salt water, striped
up well. They grow abundantly bass.
in thousands of acres of rich Flower: rose.
New York muckland. Insect: nine-spotted
So, why shouldn’t the onion ladybug.
be the state’s official vege- Reptile: snapping turtle.
table? Shell: bay scallop.
Tree: sugar maple.
State Sen. David Carlucci, a Bush: lilac.
Democrat who represents
Rockland and Orange coun-
ties, says it should be. He has Onion facts
introduced a bill in the state Top onion counties, by
Peter Chen / The Post-Standard Senate to name the onion the acres planted: Oswego,
JAZMINE BARR, 11, (left) and Asaiah Ford, 10, both fifth-graders at Salem Hyde Elementary School, learn about state’s official vegetable. Orange, Genesee
chemistry and what happens when things freeze or solidify at a Time Warner Cable Connect A Million Minds ‘‘We need to promote local- Other onion counties:
event, at the Syracuse Center of Excellence. ly grown produce,’’ Carlucci Madison, Orleans, Wayne,
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