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Look, onions are like anal sex. If you were forced or tricked into having it as a kid, chances are you don’t want it when you become an adult.
Hope that isn’t coming from personal experience, brother/sister/anything you prefer.
I used to hear that in high school when we were seeing who could be the most offensive. I still slip up sometimes and use it as a dark joke, and it’s always received as well as it has been here.
Some of us laughed.
I was trying to extend the joke but then looked at everyone’s responses and decided it wouldn’t go over well
Some of us screen shotted it and shared it too!
Hu-man
Yup. That’s me. I don’t mind the flavor, but the sliminess is not for me
Are we talking about onions or anal?
Do they still feel slimy if they’re finely diced? I love the taste but hate the texture of mushrooms, and mincing them to incorporate into a dish is the best of both worlds for me.
for larger bits of mushroom just cook them like you hate them before anything else. It’s really difficult to burn them, so just keep cooking them until they stop screaming and then add them to liquid as late as possible. The thing that makes them slimy is cooking them in moisture, so by doing this you will guarantee that they don’t become slimy
Mushedrooms?
For me even that isn’t enough. I love the taste in something like hot and sour soup, but anything more than soup is just a horrible experience
That’s it for me, goodnight internet.
Is there, uh… something you wanted to share with the group?
Congratulations, I think you might have a truly original experience. Never seen a kid that doesn’t like onions in any way, so they don’t need to be forced to eat them. And why would you force that in the first place? They aren’t the kind of vegetable that you need to eat, they’re there for flavor. I’m certain there’s some deeper issue here, you might want to figure that out.
I just don’t like big pieces of mostly raw onion. If it’s in a dish it’s great, but if you put a slab of raw onion on my burger I still will remove it. Minced onion is fine, but a lot of places put way too much on, so I have to scrape a bit off first…
You must not know a lot of kids or have a lot of world experience. Onion is a top picky eater food. Why do parents force kids to eat them? Perception of table etiquette.
Pretty easy thing to explain, if you are over the age of 15.
Someone has never taken a big ole bite out of a vidalia onion! Like eating a spicy apple.
I assume this was produced by a 23-year-old who thinks adulthood means something. They’ll learn.
Right. We’re all just old kids.
Old babies
Geriatric infants
Mummified zygotes.
I mean it’s usually kids who are really picky eaters and many grow out of it. If they grow out of it that probably has happened by the time they’re 23
Define “picky eater”.
I’ve had people who seem to think disliking any food makes you a picky eater. This seems to be the category the original creator is in. Those people are often the same category of people I never want to see eating because they look like pigs at the trough, shoving food into their mouth at an alarming rate while almost forgetting to breathe, more like animals than humans. But that’s not universal, just common.
In reality I don’t know many people who universally enjoy every food as an adult. So is everyone picky?
Ok, so it’s undefined
I normally associate the childhood one with what the page calls neophobia.
The issue is that there’s a lot of differing definitions
Right…so it’s not defined. I don’t know the practical difference between “there is no definition for this” and “there are so many different meanings that the term alone without clarification has no meaning”.
You said it was undefined and that’s right. There’s just no one singular definition that is generally agreed upon. But same sort of characteristics are in them, being more selective than normal in eating
I avoided onions and peppers when I was younger because I was a picky ass eater.
Now I avoid onions because I realized I can’t properly digest them and the make my tummy sad.
I was a picky ass eater.
That’s something we should all be picky about.
Don’t kink shame, its only smellz
They’re talking about having standards
Schmalz
A little corn kernel around the rim never hurt nobody
A corn kernel around the onion ring
:(
Caramelized onions are soooo tasty!
Don’t get me wrong, I love onions as an adult. That said, I had a procedure a few years that fucked my ability to digest allium.
I’m trying to eat fist fulls of probiotics to see if I can get back in the game.
If it’s the oligosaccharides or fructans that are fucking you up, you can heat (not fry) onions in however much oil you’re okay with in your final dish, and then just remove the onions. The flavor compounds are oil soluble, but the oligosaccharides/fructans aren’t. Smaller pieces = more intense onion flavor.
Yeah, I’ve been experimenting with that as a solution. I can also mildly tolerate them if they’re cooked high hell or used as a powder. The more raw it is, the harder it is to digest.
If I can dial the fructans down, I do a lot better.
Fingers crossed for you finding a solution that lets you get all the onion you want! Intestinal issues are so miserable
This was such a delightful comment chain! Equal parts pleasant and informative.
Indeed! TIL! I am going to do the fine chop on the onions for cooking and see how much more flavor I can get out of them.
You can keep heating them slowly and caramelizing them until they turn in a jam … that’s how good onions are.
Or you could dehydrate them and use the crusty bits like bacon bits on all sorts of food.
I always find it strange to hear people say they don’t like onions … I keep a large stock of onions in my kitchen all the time because they go into just about every recipe and you can cook, fry, bake or use them raw in all sorts of things.
I don’t mind the flavor but I hate that I’m an onion/garlic sweater. For days after eating garlic or most onions, I stink so badly no perfume or deodorant or antiperspirant can control it. As a girl growing up, it was a real problem, and once I was old enough to do my own cooking I started leaving them out, or using sweet onions when they were too important to exclude.
I’m also capsaicin-sensitive, like major ass-bleeding bad, so I minimize spicy peppers and use bell peppers plus black pepper/wasabi/horseradish/ginger for spice. If it’s not my cooking I get “Mild” and do the best I can with it.
Interesting then that wasabi or horseradish doesn’t affect you in similar ways.
Yes, different chemicals
This is my story except with cheese.
Why did I have to start enjoying the taste of cheese?
My partner’s in the same boat.
What’s wicked sad is he loves garlic but it doesn’t love him. He can have garlic oil but that’s about it (something to do with FODMAPs).
Might want to also try powers, cooking the shit out of the alliums, or cooking with the bulbs then removing the bulbs before serving. Get the flavor without the high FODMAP fructans.
I’m also trying to see what I can do to build back the gut bacteria which would normally process that stuff correctly. Probiotics + slowly reintroducing the alliums over a long period of time.
Hey you can defend onions and peppers without slandering corn.
I could but I don’t want to
I’m with you OP. It’s an IBS nightmare. I’ll have it popped but that’s just because it’s so convenient of a snack and not too bad health wise.
God, sometimes I might as well say frag out! when eating corn. Blows me tf up
oh gods. i remember when i still had a digestive tract, before it was removed but after it went all manky, eating popcorn was just asking for the jackson pollock shits. that shit scraped EVERYTHING out
That’s me, ileostomy and any fresh vegetables. Tiny piece of salad? Fuck you, how about your guts spit out the piece and flush themselves empty in half an hour. Several bagfulls of yellow liquid. I don’t eat fresh vegetables anymore
And that is why you must perish.
Onions and peppers are some of the vegetables I eat the most of because you can cut them up very quickly and serve with simple lunches like pasta or an omelette
And to lessen the taste of onions … either cut them very thinly … or take the cut slices and soak them in a bit of vinegar for ten minutes.
Best way to enjoy raw onions I find is to eat them with cheese … nothing like a plain old cheese and onion sandwich … we discovered this in southern Spain where mountain villages serve it like that - really strong manchego hard cheese with strong Spanish onions served on hard crust baguette style bread, it’s amazing
That sounds amazing, and I can’t wait to try it… But I can’t help but wonder how horrible everyone’s breath might be there. 😬
Interesting, I’ll have to try that.
For a while our standard appetizer to bring places was onions and Brie on saltines. It just works and is simple.
But from that I assumed onions want a creamy cheese like brie, so hard cheeses never occurred to me
Dry bread, dry cheese, no condiments or anything? Sounds rather dry.
Caramelized onions are a gateway to onion enjoyment.
Don’t you dare put onions in my eggs; I’ll cut you.
i put jalopenos in my ass
Someone has a favorite GIF 😁
technically we all do, just depends on if it starts or ends there.
Why we talking bad on corn
I’ll take all three please
I’m allergic to onion and I’m offended by this.
But man do I chow down on peppers a lot.
These people are balanced out by the ones who use onion slices as dippers in humus with ungodly garlic ratios, and the people who eat ghost peppers like popcorn.
who use onion slices as dippers in humus with ungodly garlic ratios
I feel personally attacked.
One of us!
It’s worth mentioning that the flatogenic index of that kind of eating is off the chart. If anyone reading this has a diet like that please, for the love of everything good in this world, get a job that is outdoors.
Kindly stay the fuck off airplanes.
No kidding. Every time I fly I wind up on the same flight with a bunch of people that hit up an all-you-can-eat chili buffet the night before. They proudly let the entire cabin know this the very instant we hit cruising altitude.
The only upside here is that not even first-class is safe. I really feel bad for the flight attendants.
I have mercifully not experienced that. Usually, I get stuck between two people with communicable diseases who missed the early childhood education experience of being told not to wipe their nose on their hands, cover their mouth for coughs, wash their hands etc. Fml.
Yeah, that’s pretty awful. The pandemic taught us all that enough people are gross like that.
At this point, I just assume that every airport is packed to the gills with coronavirus. I mask up, avoid eating with my hands, try not to eat much at all, and wash thoroughly. That said, I ate at a sit-down restaruant at O’hare this summer and immediately caught it anyway; my flight was delayed and i was ravenous.
When I flew recently, I wore a mask fortunately but needed to eat on the plane so some mask-off time. I’m not sure the plague stuck though; I’m a bit under the weather but not as bad as my seatmates. 🤞
onion slices as dippers in humus
🤯
Red onions are best.
Every time I eat onions, it takes about 5 minutes until it feels like someone is repeatedly stabbing me in the guts with a rusty knife. So yeah I avoid them
Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.
Nobody says the come and go. They can come on later in life but once there you are basically stuck with it. Reason being is that allergies are an immune reaction. These are mediated by immune cells, antibodies, that bind to the $insert_bad_thing and put a “murder me” sign on its back. These cell are produced by long lived immune cells.
Same for me with corn!
Chopped up over a kg of onions and fried them, also added grated parsnip and carrots, then salt, pepper and a few bottles of malt vinegar. Little bit of honey too. Simmer away for a few hours, add more vinegar if it’s getting a little dry. Then store in jars.
This was 2 days ago and my kitchen still smells divine. I don’t really know how to accurately describe it. Caramelised onions but there is more to it from the vinegar. Doesn’t smell like vinegar though, more like it’s enhanced the onions.
Cheap to make as supermarkets here are competing over selling the cheapest veg. 5kg of parsnips, carrots, cabbage and swede for under £0.50, onion was a bit more, but not much. Was going to add all of it but my arm was getting tired from grating and peeling so much. I don’t own a food processor so it’s all by hand. Filled 2.5L worth of jars from the first batch.
What is this concoction?
that sounds wonderful! Do you use it as a stock of sorts?
Onion chutney. And it IS divine. Add it to burgers or steak and you will regret having wasted so many years without it.
Something like that anyway, not made it before. Perhaps a little closer to branston pickle? Less sugar than you would normally have in a chutney and sugar isn’t necessary for preservation as you get that from the vinegar.
The onions still do the heavy lifting, I guess, and “a few bottles of malt vinegar” sounds a little excessive.
I personally prefer pure caramelized onions without any other ingredients except a bit of salt, to be honest. Won’t keep as long in the fridge but is the most versatile.
It was a lot of veg in total, onions being quite a large amount of it. Even with all the vinegar, you couldn’t see it above the veg. Used a 21L stock pot although it didn’t fill it overly high, but would have been too much for any of my other saucepans.
Still sounds really great.
I’m German, and whenever someone here claims the British have bad food I mention all the fantastic chutneys and pickles you guys have over there. Particularly fond of a thing called “Glorious Garlic Pickle” by The Bay Tree. I wish I had the recipe because they don’t ship to mainland Europe.
We have quite a big pile of chutneys we bought recently, we always have them with cheese and biscuits on Christmas day.
Onions make me ill in quantity so, uh, yeah.
I like onions and peppers. They do not like me (understandable ) and exact their fiery indigestive revenge every time I dare eat more of their ranks
yeah i was going to say. a lot of people are judgy about people who have unforgiving digestive tracts DON’T ASK ME HOW I KNOW
The person I’m thinking of just eats like a child. Turns his nose up at any vegetable. The last time he was at my place, he collapsed and shit himself. Looked like diabetic shock. I tried getting the rest of the friend group to have an intervention, but the rest are conflict adverse and don’t eat healthy either, so it didn’t go anywhere. The house he lives in has had three people die of weight related issues, but they think BMI is a scam.
i struggle with lactose and oligosaccharides
yes, i can take an enzyme pill for both
no, it’s not a perfect solution (not in my case at least)at this point I’m just straight up with people and say “I will burp and fart if I eat this, so it’s your culinary pride or your nose, choose wisely”
me being gassier than the sun is practically a holiday tradition when i visit family. nothing has more milk and onions than Pennsylvania white people cooking lol
Please come visit. I will maintain my culinary pride, light a damn candle, and try to fart louder than you like a good host
Also, I tried that poo stank pill (devrom, bismuth subgallate) and if you can squeak out a scent through that you’re a stinkier ass than I. And I’ve like been kicked out of churches over mine.
kicked out of a church for ripping too much ass is an achievement that might actually get me through the doors of a church to try, ha!
and try to fart louder than you like a good host
there is a non-zero chance we’re blood related lmao
Garlic
Yes, please. I’ll have them the same way Ron Swanson haves his eggs and bacon for breakfast:
never watched this show but seen plenty of clips. Isn’t he just a male Karen?
Nah, he’s a grumpy but kind libertarian (ACTUAL non-hypocrite libertarian who just wants to be left alone without hurting anyone and be self-sufficient, not the RL GOP kind) with three ex-wives all named Tammy and a significant fortune in gold buried somewhere.
Of the many things he is, a Karen is thoroughly not one.
oh fair enough – that gif makes him look a bit entitled, but I guess he’s a paying customer and is just asking to be served what he’s willing to pay for
that gif makes him look a bit entitled
Yeah, I can see how it could be interpreted that way out of context, but in context it’s a joke about how he has very old-fashioned breakfast habits, dialed up to 11 for increased hilarity 😁
“could you seat me next to the kitchen where i can smell the griddle” is something i’ve said and something i can see him saying, even though we are nothing alike. wait fuck i’m duke silver
My sister made guacamole and wanted me to test it. I asked how much garlic it has and she said she never puts garlic in it. I could only convince her to put a tiny bit in but I would’ve easily doubled it.
who puts garlic in guac? when i add garlic to anything it needs at least 3 cloves per clove but like the best guac is avocado, tomato, onion, salt, chili (usually anaheim) and a splash of lime
Garlic in guacamole is good. Put lime juice over your raw garlic and let it sit and mellow out.
i don’t doubt your first statement. i don’t doubt your second statement. i just kinda doubt them together. who the hell wants mellow garlic. if i’m eating one fry it needs 3 cloves on it
A lot of people who are super tasters find alliums like onions and garlic incredibly overpowering unless they are in really small amounts.
I was thinking to myself that it can’t be that many people, but sure enough I was wrong and was surprised to learn the following from the Wikipedia article about super-tasters:
“Research suggests 25% of the population are non-tasters, 50% are medium tasters, and 25% are supertasters.”
Quite interesting and concise page, recommended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster
That article is wild to me. I consider myself a super taster and smeller. The list of foods super taster’s avoid is basically a list of my favorite flavors. Maybe I’m just a slightly above average taster?
Most of the list is true for me. All seltzers are disgusting due to the presence of Bitter 2 which makes them undrinkably gross. Diet soda works extremely well and tastes great. Beer, wine, coffee, and unsweetened tea are pretty awful. Savory deliciousness is magnified and a fantastic steak (medium rare to medium) will knock the soul out of my body. Cheese and spicy food is life and I eat spicier stuff than anyone I know. Onion powder and garlic salt are vastly preferable to the actual full vegetable. Dark chocolate is repulsive. Pineapple is godlike, melons are foul. Cucumber smells so bad I will flee a room to avoid it but a pickle spear is decent. Just a window into how my tastes work.
