to think there is no place for raw onions in sandwiches

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I've just picked up some lunch from a popular sandwich venue and, as usual, have had to pull out the best part of a raw red onion before eating it. AIBU to think that there is no sensible justification for having raw onions in sarnies? Surely the vast majority of people who buy lunch in these places are office workers who don't want to spend the rest of the day breathing onion stink all over their colleagues? (And yes, I know I could bring lunch from home instead of wasting my money blah di blah but I can't be arsed really don't have time to make lunch every day.)

YABU, I love raw onions on my sandwiches. Especially red onions with egg mayo - luckily I don't work in an office/that sort of environment

Yabu. I absolutely love raw onion in sandwiches or anything!

YABVVVU! I love onion!

I love raw onions, but I do stay away from them at work - not fair to my colleagues IMO. But our sandwich man does chicken curry with onion bhaji and mango chutney in a baguette. Bad bad bad bad but oh so good.....

Raw red onions...there is nothing better.

My fav sandwich ever is tuna mayo with pickle and raw onion....seriously handsome :)

YANBU - horrible! They give me a headache and they make your breath STINK

HoneyDragon
YES. Stealth onioning is beyond the pale. Ruins my life as I'm v anti onion, especially raw red onion.

It's just not on.

YANBU. Raw onion is antisocial - worse than raw garlic. Its fine to have it in the privacy of your own home if you're not going to be seeing anyone for a day or so but otherwise, horrible.

Raw onion should not be hidden in sandwiches, nor added to salads by default.

Cooked onions, or pickled are fine. Onion marmalade in a sandwich is lovely.

Yanbu!

That and the mayonnaise in every shop bought sandwich ever is why I don't buy them.

Impressed by those thoughtful souls who brush their fangs after raw onions. That is nice, I thank you :) I had a colleague who ate a lot of garlic and she always smelt horrible. I often used to wonder if she didn't know, or didn't care. She was quite difficult in other ways, so not someone you could raise it with, however carefully.

I like raw red onion too. But probably not for lunch in an office.

How can grown-ups not like onion full stop?How weirdly immature! They cant always be tasted you know, when cooked in a stew they just add a background flavour

Yes to the over-mayonnaising too. And don't even get me started on the unnecessary use of dijon mustard.

How can grown-ups not like onion full stop?

My father always avoided onions, even cooked. He would say, 'I like onions but they don't like me'. They really do have a bad effect on some people. In which case, mature and considerate to avoid them!

That and the mayonnaise in every shop bought sandwich ever

not all - some of the M&S ones are marked as 'no mayo'

I don't like tomatos but I have to accept that when I buy a butty with salad on then it will have it on. Its the problem with pre packed sandwiches.

I love onion in sandwich. But only a tiny bit - enough to taste but not crunch! Its like the salt and pepper really I agree op, bougbt sandwiches always have far too much in

YABU. But they must be not too strong and not cut too thickly.

'I like onions but they don't like me'.

Ive heard this said a few times about mussles and cucumber. I asked my husband what he thought it meant, he didn't know.

Is it indigestion? Stomach cramps?

What does it mean?

I love red onions, but hate the inevitable Repeat therefore avoid. Which is a shame.

I think it refers to the constant repeats it triggers.

My MiL gets awful awful heartburn.

I love a (soya) cheese and onion sandwich. Yabu.

Do you chew gum after an onion sarnie? No matter how much i brush my teeth, the smell of onions is so present.

It must come from the stomach.

sirzy - yes, but tomatoes don't give you bad breath (or wind/heartburn I'd have thought).

With onions, its not really a matter of whether you like them or not - its the passive inhalation by bystanders that makes them antisocial.

strokey I've always assumed it meant heartburn or the like. Someone eats onions and loves the taste and regrets it half an hour later.

I LOVE onions on certain types of sandwiches. Spring onions finely chopped in a tuna melt. Smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers and a paper-thin scattering of red onions. Roast beef, horseradish and sweet onions (Vidalia, Walla Walla Sweet or similar). Roast duck, hoisin sauce, cucumber and thinly sliced white onion.

But the common theme is how thinly the onion needs to be sliced, and I think that's why shop bought ones fall down - they don't take the time and care to get the onion really really thin.