Uncooked onions can be pretty overpowering to me, burying the taste of everything else. Grilled onions, on the other hand, overpower everyone near me after they’ve been digested and farted out.
Onions are gross. Shallots however, are divine
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!
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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.
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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
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The issue is that there’s a lot of differing definitions
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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
Don’t you dare put onions in my eggs; I’ll cut you.
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.
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
I know someone who was allergic to onion and garlic. Their food choices made me sad, but yeah, go get checked for food allergies if you can. That not being weird enough, lymphatic cancer cured them of the allergy.
Same for me with corn!
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.
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.
Onions I can to like thanks to guacamole. Never got to like bell peppers. I can tolerate most of them, but green is a no-go.
All bell peppers taste the same to me.
They pretty much do taste the same. The red, orange and yellow are great to add to salads for a touch of color.
Yeah I don’t get this. I’ve met people who say they don’t like green bell peppers. Like they all taste the same lol.
The different colors are how ripe they are. Green peppers are the least ripe and have a different taste because of it.
Yeah, that taste overpowers anything else in a dish for me. In some dishes, I can takes it, but I’m really sensitive to it.
Green are terrible, but red are juicy and delicious
The taste of green bell peppers is so inoffensive that it’s kind of amazing to me that there are people who specifically can’t eat them
Well, it’s all subjective, of course. For me, if there’s the smallest amount in a dish, it will overpower everything else in the dish. A very little bit goes a very long way for my taste buds. So if someone were cooking with the “holy trinity,” they can probably cut the bell peppers by a ⅔ to 3/5 if they’re using the green ones.
