leave onions alone!

i love onions. cooked, raw or in between. i love them on sandwiches, salads, as relish (unbelievable on crackers. i'll try to get my friend matt's recipe. he shared it with me once but i forgot it. he serves it with thinly sliced toasted bread as part of the 'beer companion' at the half door). i love vidalias the most of course. time was they were only available a few weeks a year. now they are available for many months (i'm in heaven). anyway, leave my onion's genes and enzymes ALONE

Scientists create 'no tears' onions
Scientists in New Zealand and Japan have created a "tear-free" onion using biotechnology to switch off the gene behind the enzyme that makes us cry, one of the leading researchers said Friday.
The discovery could signal an end to one of cooking's eternal puzzles: why does cutting up a simple onion sting the eyes and trigger teardrops?
The research institute in New Zealand, Crop and Food, used gene-silencing technology to make the breakthrough which it hopes could lead to a prototype onion hitting the market in a decade's time.
Colin Eady, the institute's senior scientist, said the project started in 2002 after Japanese scientists located the gene responsible for producing the agent behind the tears...............