• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    12 hours ago

    Just started dating one, she tells me she doesn’t like onion. Like what? You eat onion in so much shit without realizing it! How do you not like onion‽

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      2 hours ago

      My husband doesn’t eat onion, pepper, mushroom and any other “weird” vegetable. Try cooking with these restrictions. If I have to use one of these, he’ll eat it, but he won’t like it, so I feel like it’s not fair to serve to him constantly, only once in a while.

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      4 hours ago

      I have a hypothesis but am not smart enough to verify. But I think Onion affects some people like cilantro. Where a portion of people have a reaction to it and others do not. But mostly that they are responding to onion’s intended natural defense of vapor and oil.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        1 hour ago

        I have an alternative hypothesis: At least some people who say they don’t like onion are basing that opinion entirely on raw onion and refuse to consider and/or haven’t noticed cooked onion.

        Go to restaurant, get served a house salad, bite into the purple thing, OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?

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      8 hours ago

      I have a love hate relationship with it. The extra flavor onion can add is god tier. The texture is awful. So I cook with it but leave minimal pieces left in the dish.

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      11 hours ago

      I don’t like onions either. The taste is ok sometimes, but not very nice. And the texture is awful.

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          I just replace it all with shallots. They’re way better, no nasty slimy texture. Fuck cooked onions, nastiest shit ever, texture-wise

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              Well, it does suck. I remember when I was in high school and I found some cookbook with recipes from different countries. I tried cooking some of them and was amazed at how intense the taste was. Only later I realized that those recipes were pretty normal, they just tasted amazing compared with my mother’s cooking. It’s not that my mother’s cooking was very bland but Polish cuisine is pretty boring. It’s mostly salty and sour, not much variation. And some people never venture out beyond what they grew up with.

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              Speaking as someone with texture issues and a very sensitive pallet, it fucking sucks ass. Lived in India for 4 years, couldn’t eat fucking anything even though I tried to force myself every day. I wish I could enjoy Asian food the way everyone else does :( At least I had butter chicken 😭

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            9 hours ago

            You basically can, albeit not in pill form. There’s a whole category of complete meal replacement options, mostly in the form of shakes. The best known is Soylent by Rosa Labs, but there are dozens of others targeting every nutritional profile around. Most are a fraction of the cost of even the most basic foods.

            Strangely, most of those people will still not even try these.

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        5 hours ago

        Out of curiosity, is it any onions?

        Like there’s white, yellow, and red onions. On top of that, lightly cooked yellow onions are far different from heavily carmalized ones (crunchy and oniony vs soft and sweet)

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      9 hours ago

      I am kind of the same way with garlic. I can certainly enjoy foods that have garlic as one of the ingredients, but if it’s the main flavor, I tend to not like it. Like, if I’m choosing from the hummus varieties available to me, I have no problem with the plain hummus that obviously has garlic in it, but I don’t like the “roasted garlic” variety that has extra garlic.

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        8 hours ago

        I love garlic in all forms but I have to agree - garlic as a seasoning is very different to garlic as a flavour.

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      11 hours ago

      I also dont like union like the caremelized shit it sucks but if its cooked into a dish i can enjoy it maybe sm like this?

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      10 hours ago

      I kinda hate onion. If I don’t taste it it’s fine but any dish that I’ve tried both with and without I heavily prefer without. Fried onions are the exception for me.