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If you were suddenly asked, by way of a mental test, what particular / thing or person was most closely associated in your mind with the word / _strong_, you would probably say a giant or an ox unless you had been / listening to a sermon whose text was the sixteenth chapter of Judges, / thirtieth verse, in which case you would be more likely to say Samson, / but the typical example of physical strength, would hardly be an Onion.
And yet the Onion, although, like the proverbial Prophet, it may be / without honor among its fellow vegetables, is regarded by at least one / human outsider as the giant and ox and Samson combined of the vegetable / world.