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?

I'd not given onions much thought until this thread, but it's all coming back to me now.

My fathers favourite sandwich was a doorstep of white bread with a few inches of butter, raw, sliced white onions, and cheese and onion crisps. The smell, the cruching, the lunacy of the whole thing.

I remember it now, all too well.

On the other hand, my Aunts used to rub my Grandfathers head with a raw onion, supposedly to cure his baldness.

Ha this made me laugh as I was ranting about onions the other day. I'm fine with onions diced up in food nice n small but what offends me are meals from the Chinese with MASSIVE onion pieces in and they always feel slimy and bleurgh. They ruin my chinese treat! Have summoned up the courage to ask them to not put any onions in when I order.

Oh god, obiwan smearing his head with onions? Imagine the smell on the pillows!

I'm coming to live with you funnys I've never encountered someone so understanding of onionphobia!

Well done doublechoc. I like mushrooms from the chinese but I got them from one place once and it was literally 75% onions, 25% mushrooms. I haven't summoned up the courage to say 'no onions', I irrationally think they'll be angry with me and secrete them in the food anyway to spite me Dear god, my parents have a lot to answer for

Doublechocchip- I always ask them to leave out the mushrooms in my Chinese. I'm fine with regular mushrooms, but the ones they put in are like little shriveled testicles!

YouMakeMe you would be welcome! We always ask for no onions if there is any oniony suspicion around i.e. coleslaw, salads which may have onions. DH avoids anything on menu's where they might 'forget' to mention the onion quotient. He usually ends up with Fish and Chips with NO coleslaw