Onion Hater
I know everyone hates some foods, so why should I complain about onions? See, within the last few years I’ve been slowly realizing that there’s a conspiracy to make me eat onions, all going back to my mother. She would make food X, and then when I’d ask if there’re onions in it, would say no or somehow dodge it. She had the best intentions, for me to get used to them – but it just never worked as it did for so many other foods. The problem is, she’s still doing it. As a result of this , I wasn’t aware of the cause of my hatred of some foods for most of my life.
Most of my friends start out by saying – I bet I could make you like onions in MY cooking. It’s amazing how many people have said this. After many blind taste tests between identical items cooked with and without onions, they are mostly convinced that I actually cannot enjoy them. Some believe I am just too stubborn – but believe me, I would LOVE to enjoy onions. We live in an onion filled society. They have infected almost every culture – very little food is safe. The pressures of onion society have polarized me into an onion hater.
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People have been telling me that i am just finicky about onions all my life. No! They are repulsive to me! They taste and smell badly. Once i was given a big plate of scrambled eggs for breakfast, and the first bite was full of long strips of onions…..i barfed like a two dollar prom queen loaded on sloe gin and 7 up. Some people huh?
I agree! I know there are lots of little white lies told in childhood, and lots of children are fussy, but I really hate onions. I don’t like the taste, the smell or the texture. I really struggled to get the point across about just how much I didn’t like them – I got shouted at, lied to and force fed them, and i suspect a portion of my dislike for the foul tasting vileness is psychological. I really tried to get to like them, or at least to not despise them, but have failed. Why is it so hard for people to understand. If they want to put onion in my food, that’s fine, but I will either pick it all out or leave the food if the taste has permeated too much. I’ve even swallowed chunks of the stuff as tableets, until that got too obvious. I’m regarded as fussy by some people, but it really is the only food I don’t like, and I would ignore the taste if it were at all possible.
Some recurring classics are: “you won’t even taste it” (well, why use it then?),
“I’m sure you’ll like it in MY food” (please just accept it – don’t try to change me), and trying to sneak it past me (nice knowing you, goodbye)
“I know everyone hates some foods, so why should I complain about onions?”
No actually, lots of people don’t hate any foods.
I loved your article. Did you really try to get adapted to onion?
Is it the smell of onion (i.e. sulphunic acid) or taste which causes problem? If it is smell, then you could most probably use substitute of onion.
I am trying to find a substance/chemical/spray etc. which can make one used to onion smell in food as taste is not an issue with me but odour of onion is.
Can you please help me out?
regards
Leog
For me it is both smell and taste. I have tried to bite into an onion with my nose plugged and I almost died.