I’m a big fan of fajitas.
Onions are fine in moderation. Peppers can overpower the flavor of a dish easily. But depending on the meal, I don’t mind either
Onions are gross. Shallots however, are divine
Look, onions are like anal sex. If you were forced or tricked into having it as a kid, chances are you don’t want it when you become an adult.
Hope that isn’t coming from personal experience, brother/sister/anything you prefer.
I used to hear that in high school when we were seeing who could be the most offensive. I still slip up sometimes and use it as a dark joke, and it’s always received as well as it has been here.
Some of us laughed.
I was trying to extend the joke but then looked at everyone’s responses and decided it wouldn’t go over well
Some of us screen shotted it and shared it too!
Yup. That’s me. I don’t mind the flavor, but the sliminess is not for me
Do they still feel slimy if they’re finely diced? I love the taste but hate the texture of mushrooms, and mincing them to incorporate into a dish is the best of both worlds for me.
Mushedrooms?
Are we talking about onions or anal?
Congratulations, I think you might have a truly original experience. Never seen a kid that doesn’t like onions in any way, so they don’t need to be forced to eat them. And why would you force that in the first place? They aren’t the kind of vegetable that you need to eat, they’re there for flavor. I’m certain there’s some deeper issue here, you might want to figure that out.
You must not know a lot of kids or have a lot of world experience. Onion is a top picky eater food. Why do parents force kids to eat them? Perception of table etiquette.
Pretty easy thing to explain, if you are over the age of 15.
Someone has never taken a big ole bite out of a vidalia onion! Like eating a spicy apple.
That’s it for me, goodnight internet.
Is there, uh… something you wanted to share with the group?
Onions and peppers are some of the vegetables I eat the most of because you can cut them up very quickly and serve with simple lunches like pasta or an omelette
Caramelized onions are a gateway to onion enjoyment.
And to lessen the taste of onions … either cut them very thinly … or take the cut slices and soak them in a bit of vinegar for ten minutes.
Best way to enjoy raw onions I find is to eat them with cheese … nothing like a plain old cheese and onion sandwich … we discovered this in southern Spain where mountain villages serve it like that - really strong manchego hard cheese with strong Spanish onions served on hard crust baguette style bread, it’s amazing
Interesting, I’ll have to try that.
For a while our standard appetizer to bring places was onions and Brie on saltines. It just works and is simple.
But from that I assumed onions want a creamy cheese like brie, so hard cheeses never occurred to me
That sounds amazing, and I can’t wait to try it… But I can’t help but wonder how horrible everyone’s breath might be there. 😬
Dry bread, dry cheese, no condiments or anything? Sounds rather dry.
Don’t you dare put onions in my eggs; I’ll cut you.
I avoided onions and peppers when I was younger because I was a picky ass eater.
Now I avoid onions because I realized I can’t properly digest them and the make my tummy sad.
My partner’s in the same boat.
What’s wicked sad is he loves garlic but it doesn’t love him. He can have garlic oil but that’s about it (something to do with FODMAPs).
Might want to also try powers, cooking the shit out of the alliums, or cooking with the bulbs then removing the bulbs before serving. Get the flavor without the high FODMAP fructans.
I’m also trying to see what I can do to build back the gut bacteria which would normally process that stuff correctly. Probiotics + slowly reintroducing the alliums over a long period of time.
This is my story except with cheese.
Why did I have to start enjoying the taste of cheese?
I was a picky ass eater.
That’s something we should all be picky about.
Don’t kink shame, its only smellz
They’re talking about having standards
A little corn kernel around the rim never hurt nobody
A corn kernel around the onion ring
:(
Caramelized onions are soooo tasty!
You can keep heating them slowly and caramelizing them until they turn in a jam … that’s how good onions are.
Or you could dehydrate them and use the crusty bits like bacon bits on all sorts of food.
I always find it strange to hear people say they don’t like onions … I keep a large stock of onions in my kitchen all the time because they go into just about every recipe and you can cook, fry, bake or use them raw in all sorts of things.
I don’t mind the flavor but I hate that I’m an onion/garlic sweater. For days after eating garlic or most onions, I stink so badly no perfume or deodorant or antiperspirant can control it. As a girl growing up, it was a real problem, and once I was old enough to do my own cooking I started leaving them out, or using sweet onions when they were too important to exclude.
I’m also capsaicin-sensitive, like major ass-bleeding bad, so I minimize spicy peppers and use bell peppers plus black pepper/wasabi/horseradish/ginger for spice. If it’s not my cooking I get “Mild” and do the best I can with it.
Interesting then that wasabi or horseradish doesn’t affect you in similar ways.
Don’t get me wrong, I love onions as an adult. That said, I had a procedure a few years that fucked my ability to digest allium.
I’m trying to eat fist fulls of probiotics to see if I can get back in the game.
If it’s the oligosaccharides or fructans that are fucking you up, you can heat (not fry) onions in however much oil you’re okay with in your final dish, and then just remove the onions. The flavor compounds are oil soluble, but the oligosaccharides/fructans aren’t. Smaller pieces = more intense onion flavor.
Yeah, I’ve been experimenting with that as a solution. I can also mildly tolerate them if they’re cooked high hell or used as a powder. The more raw it is, the harder it is to digest.
If I can dial the fructans down, I do a lot better.
Fingers crossed for you finding a solution that lets you get all the onion you want! Intestinal issues are so miserable
This was such a delightful comment chain! Equal parts pleasant and informative.
Indeed! TIL! I am going to do the fine chop on the onions for cooking and see how much more flavor I can get out of them.
Onions I can to like thanks to guacamole. Never got to like bell peppers. I can tolerate most of them, but green is a no-go.
All bell peppers taste the same to me.
They pretty much do taste the same. The red, orange and yellow are great to add to salads for a touch of color.
The different colors are how ripe they are. Green peppers are the least ripe and have a different taste because of it.
Yeah, that taste overpowers anything else in a dish for me. In some dishes, I can takes it, but I’m really sensitive to it.
Green are terrible, but red are juicy and delicious
The taste of green bell peppers is so inoffensive that it’s kind of amazing to me that there are people who specifically can’t eat them
I always replace onions with fennel in every recipe. I have yet to find one where that wasn’t an instant improvement. I honestly don’t understand why people eat onions when fennel exists.
I don’t understand how the two are interchangeable. It’s like saying you substitute mint when something calls for a tomato.
Edit: oh, like the bulbs. Okay. But flavors seem to be different enough that I wouldn’t have thought of it. If it works for you, great.
Ah, I can see this! Gonna try it.
Fennel can absolutely have a place in dishes with onions, but it is not a total replacement. Way too strong a flavor for most flavor bases that start out with onion.
Sauteed sliced fennel would have a similar bite and sweetness, but with that mild licorice aroma and without the onioniness. In a pasta sauce where dried fennel seed would be normal anyway, it seems pretty genius to me. I’m going to pick some up and try it next time I get to the grocery store.
Sure, but it’s a lot tougher and won’t break down the same way onions should. Agreed that the flavor would work well in a dish where fennel might already be added, but again, that’s not most dishes. Still interested in hearing how your experiment goes!
Why we talking bad on corn
I’ll take all three please
Or when you got wicked GERD but those fajitas come out sizzlin
GERD… ugh.
Got a horror story and a triumph regarding that.
One of my oldest friends had GERD something terrible.
Had a bleeding ulcer from it that nearly killed her at one point.
Was put on Aciphex but it gave her terrible diarrhea with the hot shits regardless, so I suggested she try a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar after each meal. Goes down thermonuclear hot for 10 seconds or so but eases up quite fast.
It seems counter-intuitive, but vinegar is a digestive, in that it aids digestion by being an acid base, and it also tempers the acid pumps in the stomach because again, it IS an acid, so they produce less.
She was off the Aciphex inside of three weeks. Hot shits… gone.
For general stomach soothing, I put a capful of Braggs apple cider vinegar into a cup of water before bed. It makes the water spry and slightly tangy. Works a charm for my stomach - esp when I eat out.
Vinegar is the best!
I was and still am a very picky eater. I’ve started cooking for myself and have become dramatically less picky. However, I’m still not a fan of raw onion. I almost like them more the more they are cooked. I don’t like raw onion, but I love caramelized onion. I guess it’s really I just don’t like the texture of raw onion.
Cooking gets rid of a lot of the acidity, so could be that in addition to texture.
These people are balanced out by the ones who use onion slices as dippers in humus with ungodly garlic ratios, and the people who eat ghost peppers like popcorn.
who use onion slices as dippers in humus with ungodly garlic ratios
I feel personally attacked.
One of us!
onion slices as dippers in humus
🤯
It’s worth mentioning that the flatogenic index of that kind of eating is off the chart. If anyone reading this has a diet like that please, for the love of everything good in this world, get a job that is outdoors.
Kindly stay the fuck off airplanes.
No kidding. Every time I fly I wind up on the same flight with a bunch of people that hit up an all-you-can-eat chili buffet the night before. They proudly let the entire cabin know this the very instant we hit cruising altitude.
The only upside here is that not even first-class is safe. I really feel bad for the flight attendants.
I have mercifully not experienced that. Usually, I get stuck between two people with communicable diseases who missed the early childhood education experience of being told not to wipe their nose on their hands, cover their mouth for coughs, wash their hands etc. Fml.
Yeah, that’s pretty awful. The pandemic taught us all that enough people are gross like that.
At this point, I just assume that every airport is packed to the gills with coronavirus. I mask up, avoid eating with my hands, try not to eat much at all, and wash thoroughly. That said, I ate at a sit-down restaruant at O’hare this summer and immediately caught it anyway; my flight was delayed and i was ravenous.
When I flew recently, I wore a mask fortunately but needed to eat on the plane so some mask-off time. I’m not sure the plague stuck though; I’m a bit under the weather but not as bad as my seatmates. 🤞
I’m allergic to onion and I’m offended by this.
But man do I chow down on peppers a lot.
Onions are vile and I’ll tell you where you can shove your judgement.
Go on
Inside a whole raw onion before shoving that up your ass
It’s not even the taste, it’s the texture.
I add onion powder to everything. Can’t stand actual onions tho.
What texture, though?
Genuine question–onions can be anywhere from a very crunchy vegetable texture to a thick paste depending on how they’re cooked. Do you have a problem with that whole range?
I’m 35 years old and I’ve never come across an onion with a texture I liked.
They’re probably like my little kids. They say they hate onions and eat them anyway. About anything from McDonald’s, chips of nearly every sort, so many foods with onion powder as part of the flavoring.
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