Huh. I’m not sure I’ve ever had a gyros with hot sauce. Must try one day. (Middle Eastern equivalents, yes, but I’ve never seen gyros with a pepper sauce in the Greek joints around here. I now wonder if I could have been asking for some all this time.)
I used to watch the cooking competition show Chopped. One of the rotating celebrity chef judges was a very vocal non-onion person (apparently it’s a genetic thing, similar to the cilantro effect). The trajectory of the show often hinged on whether a contestant was aware that he was going to reject any dish presented to him with onion in it (he would throw a fit if it was a piece of raw onion).
That and this thread emphasize that clearly life is complicated for folks who have this negative reaction to onions!
Your poll did not cover my preferences. I HATE raw onions, any dish that includes raw onions tastes 100% like raw onions and nothing else. Cooked onions are fine.
I guess most of the “gyros” i eat are actually from Arab shops, not Greek ones. And the dish will be called something like “falafel in pita wrap”. I use the English words for the sandwich interchangeably.
Unless you mean a sub. Those are sometimes called “heros”, which I’m pretty sure is the same word, but those are more likely to be Italian in style.
When i visited Greece i had a lot of gyros from street vendors, and they were all pork. Which surprised me the first time i had one. Usually pork seasoned with thyme and lemon juice. 
Yeah, pork is a traditional meat. There’s a couple places here in Chicago that do pork, but lamb-beef is the usual here. We’re also drilled to pronounce it as yee-ros due to a popular advertising poster instructing us to, but my understanding is that the first letter’s pronunciation depends on dialect. And “gyros” is singular in the original language. And none of this “gyro” as in “gyroscope” stuff here. You’ll get funny looks.
Nobody’s telling you to like anything any more than you are ‘imposing’ your Coke Zero and pita preferences on me. Just like you would consider a gyros without sauce incomplete, others won’t continue without onion.
I generally do not like onions at all. But it’s a texture thing and not a flavor thing– I love the smell of onions cooking but the texture of caramelized onions will literally make me gag. Onions on pizza are an absolute abomination.
I do use onions in cooking but generally only if I can puree the mixture at some point (i.e. soups or spaghetti sauce or whatever..)
My Chicago dad says Ge-ros, hard G but the correct vowels and stress up front.
Eta: this isn’t widespread, just his own oddity. They do advertise yee-ros.
But the title of the thread is asking about people who dislike onions. So when people chime in about their love for onions it’s a bit off topic. Can we just have a civil discussion of our dislike of onions without being reminded by people how great they are? We have heard that line our entire lives, is continuing it here really neccesary.
You’re right, that was unintentionally confrontational and I’m sorry. I’d meant to say something like ‘nobody has the right to tell you what to like.’ and it is the onion dislike thread.
I naturally slide toward some chopbusting, sometime veering into ballbusting if I let it but I save the worst for Packers and SL Cardinals fans. And pizza-ranch dressing dippers. I don’t think much of steak or chops and usually stay away from sweets so large portions of a lot of menus don’t interest me, either.
My wife has kept one cutting board exclusively for onions and garlic (I can’t say I have been too strict about using it that way), and just the other day, she had to throw out some watermelon she had cut up on that board as it was now oniony. Coincidentally the 25-year old board broke around the same time and has been tossed.
For me, it really depends on the onion and where it is.
Green onions (aka scallions)? No problem.
Any other onion, raw? No, thanks.
Red onions, anywhere? Too damn strong for me. However, there’s a fantastic cheeseball recipe that one of my sisters uses; the red onions in there are so finally chopped and incorporated with so many other flavors that they’re not really noticeable.
Other onions, cooked? As long as they’re in ring form or not overwhelming whatever they’re on (or in), no problem.
I find that the dishwasher removes onion from plastic cutting boards. But i don’t cut onions, garlic, or raw meat on the wooden cutting boards, and i always cut onions after cutting anything else that shouldn’t taste like onion.
But the OP also has a poll asking about how people feel about onions, with the vast majority saying they like them. So it seems perfectly on topic to talk about dishes that are enhanced by onions, and the haters are free to disagree. Otherwise all you’re gonna get is posts saying “me, too”, “yechh!”, “onions: blech!”, and so on.
Onions are somewhat like garlic – most people like it at least in some dishes, others won’t touch it. Although if you come across anyone especially opposed to both, I would check to see if they’re visible in a mirror, or if they’ve ever been seen in the daytime! 
@wolfpup The OP only did a poll (added later) to show that the majority of people are OK with onions. Then he invited people to follow up and vent ( about their dislike for what the majority likes). Not share there love of onions.
Maybe people who love onions should start their own thread so I can go over there and threadshit. 
The answer to the onion-averse: Grow it, don’t eat it.
“Allium hookeri ‘Zorami’ is a charming edimental that has crisp, juicy, garlic flavored foliage and almost perfectly round, translucent flower clusters”.
Ooh, I forgot, I have a bunch of decorative tree onion patches around my yard. A very sensitive onion avoider will still want to keep them at a distance: they’re quite aromatic when broken and they’re easy to break since they get so crazy tall and top heavy; it’s how they propagate. I try to not hit them but I still smell them every time I mow.
One patch by the alley is quite a nice grove, they get waist high and thrive in a wierd sunbaked, salty puddle splashed corner. I’ve had the occasional sidewalk passersby ask about them out front, they look pretty cool. I offer some of the heads to anyone, that’s how I got mine 15 years ago. AKA Egyptian walking onions.
I absolutely hate lap onions.
Yet this thread would be DOA, what can be said by people who dislike onions other than they dont like them or cannot eat them therefore they don’t eat onions. That ends the onion opinions unless they put onions in their socks.
Oh yes! Don’t forget to put onions in your socks to ward off colds, flu and Covid!
Here’s a wonderful article on this centuries-old remedy. It ties in with reflexology and Chinese Traditional Medicine, and besides, what have you got to lose besides “friends” who’ll abandon you because of your foot stench.
Note that the article has been reviewed by Dr. Saba, an actual medical doctor, who has three years of experience in Homeopathic Editing.*
*logically that must mean that she edited out 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of the bullshit in that article.