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[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I have a theory that most people's favorite food is actually onion. We like them sweet, spicy, pickled, and in breakfast omelettes, lunch sandwiches, and alongside dinner proteins. There isn't much that isn't improved or at least complemented by an onion.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In my mind its not cooking unless it involves cutting an onion

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Old Ukrainian recipe: fry garlic and onions in a pan with butter, then decide what to have for dinner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Add carrots and you’re 2/3rds through lost good French and Italian meals too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same in the Philippines, but with oil instead of butter. Almost every dish there starts with garlic and onion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Golden sauteed onion is gourmet shit.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Agreed nothing adds flavor layers to a dish like an onion can

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget they're low calorie.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

But just raw dogging onion sounds like hell.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

College friend of mine used to eat 'em like apples. Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As a kid when I saw the movie Holes, I was so tempted to start eating onions like apples, like they do in that scene at the oasis. I also went home after the movie and dug a big hole in the backyard because I was a fucking weird ass. Still am. Never ate an onion like that, but damn they made em look tasty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You weren’t a normal kid if you didn’t see something random, whether cool or not, and try to imitate it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That’s my favourite way to eat ‘em!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

When I chop onions I will just grab a few pieces to snack on raw while I cook the rest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The burning is the best part.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Love the taste of 'em, but onions also give me awful gag reflex to the point I need to have them removed from my food. Otherwise I risk vomiting on the spot D:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I would add potato to that list. People fucking love potatoes on lots of forms.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some parents are just ignorant assholes.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago

For real. Waiting until Halloween to introduce them to the deliciousness of caramelized onion...

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Onions grown in soils without sulphuric compounds are actually very sweet and tasty without any oniony flavour.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also just if they are cooked. Caramelized onion is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The only way I do white onion on my burgers. So good.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

How might one acquire such onions?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

You grow them... in soils without sulfuric compounds...

Do people read anymore? /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Search for sweet onion farms in your country. They are rarely available in the shops.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Crunchy (hopefully, instead of sticky), watery, spicy - all at the same time. Sounds intriguing

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you ever have a wicked head cold snack on some raw white onion. Makes my sinuses run like a god damn firehose.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I have one right now... but no access to an onion. I'm at the airport. Perhaps in the duty-free zone. Thanks for the advice

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Just this morning, my 7yo kid asked for a side of crispy fried onions to eat with his chocolate croissant. This is not the first time.

It's even more hilarious to me because both my kids hate onions in their food. But crispy fried onions? Irresistible!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same. For me it's a texture and appearance thing. I just don't like the look of cooked onions.

But the flavor of onions is great to me so if they're raw red or sweet onions or cooked into something but undetectable I love emm.

I feel this way about a lot of food textures and what does/doesn't go together.

Could be the same for your kids.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on them, caramelised onions are damn good both alone or in burgers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Caramelized onions are, sure. But i'm assuming the 4chan poster bit into a raw onion with a Carmel glaze, however, which does not seem appetizing to me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

One Christmas extended family had a Christmas gift exchange, one uncle had made a "gag gift", it was a piggy bank with pennies, I got it, he felt bad but to everyone's suprise, I was estatic. I was 5 and collecting coins, a piggy bank filled with loose change was the best present.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

As a toddler I'd eat onions and tomatoes like apples.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds really good

Apples are too sweet to add candy to

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think the apples that are typically used are the sour varieties so that there is a flavor contrast when biting in to it. This is just what I heard though, I usually don't like whatever is covering them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

never really liked the combo, apples/caramel. always eat them both separately

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Try slicing a tart apple like granny smith and dipping it into caramel. Worst case scenario, you can stop combining them and just eat them separately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Good old memories

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Calm down, Jason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You fool! That's an Aggie 1015Y super sweet onion! You've given him the taste of the good stuff and doomed us all!

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