As you might guess, I really hate onions. Why do people put something with such a strong flavor on so many foods - burgers, hotdogs, and so on. In many cases they overwhelm every other flavor.
I’m of the same opinion. To me, onions are the most vile food on the planet. When I was younger, mom put onions into everything…meatloaf, spaghetti, you name it.
No idea why or how they’re so loved. They make me gag when I taste them (even the smell does it).
Onions are the perfect food. They should put it in milk, breakfast cereal, coffee, and ice cream.
Garlic too.
If they are so good why don’t more people just eat onions on their own? Like apples, oranges, peaches , plums, grapes, blueberries, and so on.
My wife’s basic rule of cooking is as follows: “Unless you’re baking a cake, first sautי one onion”. I like that rule.
Maybe the OP has just eaten too many raw onions; you need a bit of heat to leech out most of the sharpness, leaving only the sweetness behind (onions, after all, are as sweet as apples).
I’ve learned to tolerate onions in very small pieces (and very small amounts of those pieces), but I hated them when I was younger. Even now I almost always omit them from recipes or substitute shallots.
I’m with zoid on garlic, though. I’d put it on my cereal if it didn’t clash with the milk.
Alium uber alles.
No I hate them in all forms. My goal in life is to invent a virus that wipes them off the planet.
Over my dead body!
All right, I confess. It was me.
-Malleus “and garlic too, don’t forget” Incus Stapes
People with taste buds decided. Onions are proof that Nature loves us. And Bijou, I eat onions raw, like apples. A good red onion is a great snack.
My mother’s version goes along the lines of “All good meals start with the chopping of an onion”. And her other favourite is “A meal without onions is like a day without sunshine”.
Luckily for me I like them.
Wait…other people don’t do that?
do you know that any food cooked without onions can make your ears drop off?
Sometimes I think I’m the only person in the world who doesn’t have an extreme aversion to a particular food. Every single food in the world seems to have at least a small group of people willing to decry it on the internet. I, on the other hand, like pretty much everything. Especially onions.
Onions are God’s way of letting us know he loves us.
I also don’t like fish, seafood and peanut butter. But I do eat about 99% of food out there so it’s not hard for me to eat.
I like the flavor onions gives to dishes, but hate goddamn onion chunks. A lot of times I’ll take a recipe with onions (i.e. Chicken Noodle Soup), put the onions in, and then remove them during the straining process. Onions themselves are just vile, but onion powder, onion salt, and onion flavoring are good.
No, that’s beer.
I can’t eat raw onions unless I’m willing to be sick for a couple of days. However, when I start cooking a meal, I DO grab an onion and start chopping for just about everything. My husband will walk in and take a good whiff, and smile. I don’t know how I’d cook without the allium family.
They’re relatively easy to grow, so they’re cheap and they impart a ton of flavor: easy enough to see how it was decided that they go on everything.
I hate them, the entire onion family of scallions, leeks, shallots, et al. This has been a lifelong fight with my family, who insist that I don’t really dislike them as much as I think. There are finally enough of us non-oniony types that we get the two bowls of potato salad or whatever at family gatherings, woo!