In a message dated 11/15/2002 1:23:05 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My grandmother took raw onions and put them in our socks at bed time, when > we woke up they looked like they were cooked. > The onions or your socks? -- or maybe your feet? Cure for colds or for foot odor? The old equivalent of Odor Eaters -- replace foot stink with onion stink? It sure would keep you from spreading the cold around -- no one would want to come near you. Almost as good as an asafetida bag. Doris (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr