# When is the last time you ate liver and onions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523 "2016-10-23T20:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/1 "2016-10-23T20:26:28Z")
I’m just curious. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/2 "2016-10-23T20:28:57Z")
Several decades ago. I doubt even since I was ten. I really don’t like liver. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/3 "2016-10-23T20:55:50Z")
Within the last month. I usually end up eating it about two or three times a year. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/4 "2016-10-23T21:13:43Z")
I’ve never had the ‘pleasure’. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/5 "2016-10-23T21:19:00Z")
I don’t remember: sometime in the seventies. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/6 "2016-10-23T21:30:00Z")
“I hate liver, liver makes me quiver, Liver makes me curl right up and die…” Onions, sure. But why spoil some delicious fried onions with a piece of liver? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/7 "2016-10-23T21:36:54Z")
When it’s done right, it’s delicious. Does it really trigger gout in genetically susceptible people? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/8 "2016-10-23T21:39:53Z")
More than ten years ( more than ~35, really ). Basically not since I’ve been old enough to successfully resist it being foisted on me by my parents. DO. NOT. LIKE. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/9 "2016-10-23T21:48:27Z")
I don’t think I have ever had it although I have had liver plenty of times. I did notice that, on one of those websites that lists the last meal requested for prisoners about to be executed, it was a very popular choice so some people must REALLY like it. Either that or people that love liver and onions also enjoy killing people. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/10 "2016-10-23T22:36:57Z")
I think it’s actually quite good if prepared properly. Liver is softer than muscle and more flavorful. I like it best without gravy even though most of the restaurants that I’ve been to that serve it usually serve it with brown gravy. I always ask them to hold the gravy when I order it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/11 "2016-10-23T22:46:34Z")
I like calves liver and onions when it’s made right. But the best liver I ever had was fresh venison liver. A friend had just shot a deer, and asked me to cook the liver. So I soaked it in milk, dredged it in seasoned flour and fried it in butter with thinly sliced onions. I expected it to be gamey, but it was very mild and tender. I would eat that again in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/12 "2016-10-23T23:01:21Z")
I haven’t eaten liver since I left home at eighteen: it’s my mom’s favorite dish, and she made us eat it often. My mom is annoyingly superstitious, and believes that she is going to die when she is sixty-four, her current age (her mom died at 63, her grandmother died at 62…), so I have more or less consigned myself to a meal of liver & onions, overcooked canned peas, rice and Coca-Cola, to commemorate her sixty-fifth birthday next June. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/13 "2016-10-23T23:04:47Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’ve never had the ‘pleasure’. Grin! I wouldn’t even put it in quotes. I’ve never had the pleasure. My b.i.l. loves it, so it can’t be too awful! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/14 "2016-10-23T23:10:34Z")
Not since I was old enough to rebe. 😃 My folks both liked the stuff, but only two (of six) of us kids did. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/15 "2016-10-23T23:11:04Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Either that or people that love liver and onions also enjoy killing people. With a side of fava beans and a nice Chianti? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/16 "2016-10-23T23:13:10Z")
Sure - my wife makes chicken liver with onions on ptitim about once a month. She’d make it more often, but the kid doesn’t like it that much. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/17 "2016-10-23T23:15:58Z")
Not since I was old enough to throw the plate on the floor. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/18 "2016-10-23T23:34:21Z")
Chicken livers sauteed with shallots and vermouth, with scrambled eggs, within the past few months. Veal kidneys with onions (plus mushrooms and steak) in a steak and kidney pie, within the past few months. Veal liver fried with onions, not for many years. Don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/19 "2016-10-23T23:50:53Z")
I had some last Friday when we went out to dinner. It’s a real favorite of mine ( though I prefer my own version to the restaurant one) and it’s a real treat when I can have some. It was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523/20 "2016-10-23T23:54:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not since I was old enough to throw the plate on the floor. Gross. Why does your wife put up with that behavior? 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-liver-and-onions/769523.md?page=2)