New Yorkers favor corn over onion as New York State vegetable

by Ruth Syron The battle is still on for declaring a state vegetable, but sweet corn is favored over the onion by seven out of ten New Yorkers in the Marist – NY1/YNN Poll released on May 13. State Sen. David Carlucci has a large area of “black-dirt” onion growing in his home district of New City. (The Black Dirt Region takes its name from the dark, extremely fertile soil left over from an ancient glacial lake bottom augmented by…