You can eat red onion raw, surely?

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Doesn't it always come with toasties in cafes?

Or maybe it goes through chopping machinery that can become contaminated if a small piece of onion skin gets in? (Pickers' hands. Toilet breaks in fields. There was a thread on it a while back.)

Was the thread in chat? I'll try and find it.

Before long well have to boil slaad for at least half an hour

I do not wash salad (for me and family, do for others). On the basis that if I had to I just wouldn't bother eating salad regularly has got to be better for me than the odd mucky leaf.

Eating slightly mucky salad has to be better for me than not at all I mean

You can, but you shouldn’t as it’s disgusting

You weirdo. It makes everything better. Apart from chocolate

God, I love raw red onion.

2 hours later, not so much...

Bollocks! I've been buying this for ages and ages and have it several times a week.

I've never noticed that warning op

I'll ignore it from now on

It's probably because it has a moist surface area which is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria.

I have eaten raw red onion for years. Usually in salads and homemade coleslaw and I've never been ill from it. I do buy them whole though, maybe as PPs have said, it's the cutting that exposes it to bacteria?

You'll have evil dragon breath.

I do it all the time, albeit with a fresh onion, rather than whatever the supermarket supplier has done with the leftovers and trimmings from their big catering order.

Raw red onion gives me migraines, weirdly, so I wouldn't!

Wierd. Presumably because it's cut, bagged, so sprayed with some sort of preservative?

Morrison’s Mediterranean prepackaged salad bowl come with sliced raw red onion, as does one of the Co-op’s salads. No warnings on them.