# I hate onion. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900 "2009-06-06T02:14:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/101 "2010-07-22T16:37:30Z")
There’s no use trying to convince someone he likes something of which he doesn’t like the flavor. Due to genetics, people taste things differently- anyone remember the phenylthiourea (PTC) paper you tried in biology class? Anyway, onions aren’t the real offender in today’s culinary world- the vile weed cilantro is. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/102 "2010-07-22T16:44:32Z")
Pah on supertasters! Cilantro is marvelous. It and basil are always growing in my container garden. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/103 "2010-07-22T16:57:08Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Mmm. We have a recipe for linguini cooked with Walla Walla onions and Irish cheddar. Vegetarian bliss. > > The Soupy Sales show had a character named Onions Oregano. That’s my man. I remember the day I was able to reproduce the smothered onions I had on Howard Johnson burgers as a kid. Now I can have them any time. We have beans cooked to onion and bacon. Green onions on salads. We have onions in the garden, so we can pull them at the perfect size for salads. > > I went to an Iranian restaurant once in La Jolla which served a gigantic, wonderful, onion as an appetizer. Excellent! Not only this, but onions revive dead threads. Know what is frightening? Before I noticed this was a zombie thread, I composed a post in my head which was almost identical to this one from a year ago. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/104 "2010-07-23T02:47:40Z")
When I was young, I didn’t care for raw onion, only rings or grilled. Nowadays I do like raw onion. > [@dwc1970](#): > > Anyone else familiar with this little ditty? > > - > > I don’t like snails or toads or frogs > Or strange things living under logs > But mmm, I love onions! > > Onions, onions, la-la-la! > Onions, onions, ha-ha-ha! > Root doot doot-doot, doot doot doot! > \* ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KM-lEhhsLQw/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/KM-lEhhsLQw?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/105 "2010-07-23T03:29:45Z")
Onions are a GRED trigger for me. But the further away from raw they get, the more I can tolerate them. Raw, they are just nasty. Like ashtray-licking nasty. I would no sooner bite into a raw onion than I would a cactus. Cooked down, caramelized or otherwise tamed, they can impart a minor improvement in some dishes so I’m not ready to propose banning them just yet. I hate green bell peppers too. They taste like angry, bitter, unripe versions of the sweeter, tangier red, yellow and orange bell peppers. Mushrooms are on my “what’s the point?” list. They have no flavor at all and my brain objects to things going into my mouth that are undetectable by my taste buds. Like the 'shrooms in Thai coconut milk soup. Overall it’s a delicious soup and I’ll eat the mushrooms but every single one I bite into evokes a “why the hell did we just eat that?” response from taste bud central control. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/106 "2010-07-24T05:48:51Z")
Raw onions don’t much agree with me unless they are fairly mild or sweet. On the other hand, life without gently-cooked onions of any description wouldn’t really be worth living. I don’t have a specific recipe at hand, but baked onions are awesome. Take a **sweet** onion like a Vidalia, lop off the top 1/4, drizzle with Balsamic vinegar, sprinkle on some salt, top with a pat of butter, and bake until thoroughly soft. Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/107 "2010-07-24T11:49:18Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > (Pittish, but figured it’d come here sooner or later.) > > I hate almost everything about onion. I hate its taste. I hate its texture. I hate almost cutting myself chopping one up because of tears. > > But most of all, I hate its ubiquitousness. Alton Brown, whom I otherwise respect, puts it in baked MACARONI AND CHEESE. How do these two things go together? **Macaroni and cheese should not, not, NOT be crunchy!!!** > > Phew. I feel better now. Am I alone here, or are there other souls like me out there? I love everything about onions. Onions go with everything except for sweets and cake. Speghetti, chili, soup, meats, salads, hamburgers, pizza, Chinese food, Mexican food. Onions rings? I love the taste. Some are too “hot” for me, but I love it. Sometimes cutting up an onion causes this sensation with the eyes. It’s just a chemical. Onion in macaroni and cheese. Sure, why not? Why not put my other favorite vegetable bell pepper in it? Now, I wouldn’t eat a raw onion like an apple, and I think that Blooming Onion thing at Outback Grill tastes like shit. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/108 "2010-07-24T23:18:16Z")
I may be the person on earth that hates onions the most. I despise onions. I cannot eat anything with onions in or on it. If someone tells me it’s got onions in it, I won’t eat it. I loathe those people who try to tell me “You can’t even taste the onion in it”. Oh, I can, believe me. My taste buds hate onions so much, it can detect even the smallest flake mixed into a pot. I can’t even eat anything if onions were on it and were taken or picked off because it leaves a horrible aftertaste that ruins the rest of the food. I gag when I get one in my mouth and nearly throw up if I swallow one. I cannot fathom how on earth people eat such a disgusting-tasting food. It is purely the most vile thing I have ever tasted on the face of this planet. It doesn’t matter how it’s presented either…raw, cooked, minced in food, caramelized…it’s freaking disgusting any way it’s made and I will forever dislike this putrid food. So throw me in with those who cannot, even if I wanted to, eat onions. I retch uncontrollably at the foul taste of one. And this is coming from someone who isn’t a picky eater at all. Onions, saurkraut, and radishes are the only vegetables I dislike. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/109 "2010-07-25T03:10:59Z")
Onions used to be on my “Oh, that’s so fucking gross” list – along with a ridiculous amount of other foods. Then a couple of years ago I decided that I had formed all these dislikes in my teens, and that perhaps the late-30’s me might have different tastes. Now you can gimme onions on anything. Burger with onions? Hell yeah. Sausage (another one from the list) slathered in peppers (ditto) and onions? Hit me. Fuck it…I’ll try a bowl Cap’n Crunch with onions if you put it in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900/110 "2010-07-25T04:19:01Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > I’m an onion-hater too. My husband loves onions. You see my dilemma. Mrs. SMV is an onion-hater as well. Me, I don’t love them, but I like them. She is a bit of a Nazi about onions on her pizza, so I haven’t had my favorite sausage and onion pizza since we started dating five years ago. > [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > I can’t imagine not liking onion. I eat it all the time, in all sorts of things. It amazes me when people say they don’t like it … I might as well say I don’t like air. She’s also a huge _Outlander_ fan, so I’m enjoying the irony of **Claire Beauchamp** ’s post. > [@Ogre](#): > > Onions are amazing. I still do the old Boy Scout trick of wrapping onions up in aluminum foil and a pat of butter (with maybe some bell peppers, mushrooms, or whatever else) and throwing the package on the grill until the onions caramelize. They are a beautiful thing on burgers, or by themselves. My grandmother had an amazing dish - a layer of sliced potato, a layer of sliced onion, a pat of butter, another layer of potatoes, onion and butter, topped with hamburger patties, then baked. The juice from the burgers would percolate down into the potatoes and onions, creating a mishmash of potato-y, oniony, beefy goodness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-onion/498900.md?page=5)