We have our first winner in the:

The Great Muckville Blog Free Bloomin’ Onion Essay Contest!

https://muckville.com/2014/01/02/the-great-muckville-blog-free-bloomin-onion-essay-contest/

Lindsey Laprise just sent the following piece to me:

Dear onion, 

I would like a free blooming onion from outback because the black dirt runs in my family….I love the smell and feel of an onion…..every time I go to the black dirt all I smell is onions and it makes me want to eat a whole one…onions make me cry and i wish they didn’t do that because I should be happy eating or chopping a onion. The blooming onion reminds me of a fair on a nice hot summer day where all you can smell is onion and fried clogging arteries every where you look. This is why I want a free blooming onion cause some Pollocks can’t afford one!

Thanks!

Folks … WE HAVE OUR FIRST WINNER!

I literally have tears in my eyes in regards to this entry! Onions tend to have that affect, you know!

There will be another awarding ceremony and pictures will be posted!

Congratulations Lindsey!