Poles are beeing called onions, it's just a fancy way of calling a Pole a redneck.. it has little to none to do with actual food :p
as for cheating in Fo:Nevada I didn't had You on mind ( though it might have sounded like it, as I'm a bit reckless when writing posts), I ment that when playng using cheated items when you get to SLC ( i.e. You just multiply power armor for companions from the mod), there is no need to use Metal Armor Mk3 ir the inbetween one, that SLC mechanic can upgrade from standard Metal Armor Mk2, Just because You'll already will have Grizzly Power Armor.
If Playing legit Metal Armor Mk3 has some role, as You only get up to 1 Combat Armor (if you chose so when turning in warehouse quest in Vault City) before the end game. Besides this, there are like 3 extra Combat Armors during the endgame ( 2 in Goverment Vault + 1 in Vault 8 lvl2 locker instead of the usual metal armor and red memory module).
As I said this is all ment as a general heads-up, not to acuse anyone of cheating...
As for Fo:Nevada companion mod, is a little addon mod to Fo:Nevada that adds few companions, Made by a guy here on NMA modding section. the mod itself is still not finished, as it has some glitches, however the main developer haven't updated the mod in over a year or so. Mod itself requies some files to be placed in .dat archives, in order for one of the party members to function correctly, and it's packed with an outdated master.dat file, so some assembly is required in order to install the mod ( and no there is no installer for this, You'd need to copy the files in to specific folders, so you've got to know what you are doing first, plus do some .dat unpacking to harvest one file in order to put it to a new patch00x.dat where x is a next unused patch number).
don't sweat... i just clicked at the notice that told me there are new posts in the thread... I've read the first page of new posts and responded, only after that, I realised the thread went further down on a next page. When i re-read my post on the actual forum column. After reading the post, i didn't bother to re-edit my post regarding that, as i already edited that post several times earlier..