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[–] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I have a theory that most people's favorite food is actually onion. We like them sweet, spicy, pickled, and in breakfast omelettes, lunch sandwiches, and alongside dinner proteins. There isn't much that isn't improved or at least complemented by an onion.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In my mind its not cooking unless it involves cutting an onion

[–] dessimbelackis 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Old Ukrainian recipe: fry garlic and onions in a pan with butter, then decide what to have for dinner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Add carrots and you’re 2/3rds through lost good French and Italian meals too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Same in the Philippines, but with oil instead of butter. Almost every dish there starts with garlic and onion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Golden sauteed onion is gourmet shit.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Agreed nothing adds flavor layers to a dish like an onion can

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget they're low calorie.

[–] 3ntranced 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

But just raw dogging onion sounds like hell.

[–] shalafi 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

College friend of mine used to eat 'em like apples. Ugh.

[–] AsherahTheEnd 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a kid when I saw the movie Holes, I was so tempted to start eating onions like apples, like they do in that scene at the oasis. I also went home after the movie and dug a big hole in the backyard because I was a fucking weird ass. Still am. Never ate an onion like that, but damn they made em look tasty.

[–] Chriszz 5 points 4 months ago

You weren’t a normal kid if you didn’t see something random, whether cool or not, and try to imitate it.

[–] 3ntranced 2 points 3 months ago

Had the same experience. I thought that'd taste really sour but assumed they were focused on the water content and ignored the flavor. Such a good movie, need to get some sploosh.

[–] dessimbelackis 6 points 4 months ago

That’s my favourite way to eat ‘em!

[–] Okami_No_Rei 4 points 4 months ago

When I chop onions I will just grab a few pieces to snack on raw while I cook the rest.

[–] BreadOven 3 points 4 months ago

The burning is the best part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Vidallia onions are decent raw. We put big 1/2 thick slabs on burgers that way. Carmel probably wouldn’t hurt in the OP’s case either.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 8 points 4 months ago

Love the taste of 'em, but onions also give me awful gag reflex to the point I need to have them removed from my food. Otherwise I risk vomiting on the spot D:

[–] TheDannysaur 6 points 4 months ago

I would add potato to that list. People fucking love potatoes on lots of forms.