To think onions are evil?

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They are the Devil's food.

They contaminate everything they touch, are so overpowering, stay on peoples' breath for ages, are in everything preprepared (sauces etc.) and in every meal served in cafes/restaurants.

I can't escape!

I know where my onion-hatred came from; my Dad. He genuinely eats raw onions like apples. He would always leave half-eaten raw onions in the fridge when I was growing up (he still does but that's no longer my problem ) and EVERYTHING in the fridge would taste of onions. Cornflakes with onion milk, peach melba and onion yoghurt, toast with onion butter...

Cooked onions are less offensive than raw but they're still 'orrid. Slimy, smelly bastards. They make you cry FGS; how can that be good?

I hate onions. AIBU?

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According to DD2, I like peas.
I agree about lurking roast parsnips hiding in the potatoes-yuck!

Ooh, a pea-E

Haha! If I read that a few times it's got to be one of my five a day!?

YABU. Gotta love onions

Love cooked onions, cann't eat them raw.

Ask me in 2 weeks if I can still look at a mushroom. I'm enrolled on an art class. Pencil drawing mushrooms last week. Homework, painting of mushrooms in black and white only. Next class assignment mushrooms in colour. Aargh!

The "c" word refers to something entirely different in my world... And worst of all, I went to a uni were the canteen served them daily in everything They could not be avoided and I was traumatised and almost never ate lunch as a result... I still have lunchtime hang ups after those days

Anyway, back to onions... I violently dislike cooked onions - they're slimy and snaily and vile. urg.

I want a [sceptical] smiley too. You could have a lot of fun with it

where. Sorry. I fail tonight. Badly.

Raw onions are a life saver

... well, they are the best thing ever for burns. Helps hwal the blistered skin, so you end up with practically no scarring!

Put sliced raw onion on a burn, bandage it on for a while if poss, and the next day you'll see improvement.

Trust me!

I love onions, raw, pickled, cooked, relished. So versatile.
Imagine my joy to find an onion full of maggots in a bag I'd bought 30 minutes prior to unpacking it. That is where you need a face.

Well I luffs onions, even though the nasty buggers make me cry. I will never again wipe my eyes without washing my hands though, I mean that was stoooooopid and it bloody stung

It's cabbage wot you have to look out for..

at all you bashers

onions - food of the gods
mushrooms - food of the other gods
sprouts - the god of the food of the gods and the other gods. My sprout soup is a delight, I tell you.

would agree about parnsips though - roast potato wannabes. pah

All you onion naysayers, on the back of this thread, I just wandered down to Subway and got - a tuna and mayo sandwich, salad, onions, gherkins, olives and sweet onion sauce.
The sauce was a mistake BTW, it made the bread soggy.
I agree with Okra as the nastiest vegetable though. It is slimy and, frankly, pointless.

YAnbu
They are like sliced cooked worms in my weird imagination. I have never been able to eat chunks of cooked onion without gagging and raw? Why would you?
however since becoming a grown up I do now cook with onion. Only a small amount (half a small one per meal for 3-4) but it does make the food taste better. I have a technique for chopping them so tiny they are unnoticeable when cooked :)

A maggotty onion?

rip see that sandwich would just taste of onion to me, or maybe fishy-onion! I can smell it from here!

erik don't do it to yourself, just ban them completely. lets wean the population off the foul bastards!

My DMum hated onions. Wouldn't eat anything containing them. It made going out for a family meal horribly difficult and embarrassing.

But my DNan used to cackle as she cut up the onions tiny and secreted them in whatever main meal she was cooking for us when we visited (shepherds pie etc).

I always wondered about the irrational hatred. Then I hit the age of 40 and onions started to make me fart horrifically!! So now I understand. I still eat them though - rrrriiiiippp!

celery

most evil vegetable ever in our house - I refuse to buy them

Celery is much improved by splodging peanut butter on it.

I'm still shocked that some people dislike onions.

YANBU and my DH would whole heartedly agree. He has a deep seated fear of onions caused by his mum trying to make him eat them as a child. She would disguise them in badly cooked food and make him eat it.

We don't cook with onions or garlic at all now. In fact he won't eat food which looks like his mothers food even when it doesn't have onions in as the association is so awful.

I hate offal and so our nightmare meal would be Liver and Onions

Onions are lovely, and casseroles and soups taste so bland without them.

Beetroot however, with its horrible pink juice that stains your fingers and your clothes and your poo truly warrants being called the Devil's food.

No onions and no garlic? Blandissimo!

you have to be creative squoosh But we never eat spagetti bolognase or shepards pie or anything which may contain an onion. Meals out can be a minefield and ready meals are a no no as so many companys bulk out their food with onions.We have it down to a fine art and generally choose non onion containing recipes. I have to check all ingredients when I'm shopping in case of the presence of onions.

That boy can smell the devils food at 50 paces. Saves a fortune in meals out etc

Must be a minefield negotiating food options trying to avoid onions. I think I'd need very spicy foods if I wasn't allowed onions.

Liver and onions wouldn't be my ideal either I have to say! Although I love chicken liver pate, and liver in my spag bol.

it's OK actually, much better than the bitter disappointment on DH's face when he realises he can't eat his dinner due to onion contamination we have been down that road many a time. Plus I can take them or leave them.