r/onionhate

I have dared wander into threads like these, innocently answered "onions" and was downvoted to hell and back. That's how I ended up here!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1vrlrpg/whats_a_food_everyone_loves_that_you_absolutely/

If you can openly hate mango (!?!?) and cucumbers, and nobody bats an eye, but you mention not liking onions - a pungent, strong, bitter food that gives you bad breath and gas, and get attacked for it...I just can't comprehend.

(Her profile)
My most irrational fear is taking a bite of something and it having mushrooms in it

My reply: Me but with onion 😢 I love other vegetables tho
Her: Not you having the palette of a child at your grown age

So can we just agree this is a wild thing to say to someone who has a food intolerance?

For me it's not like "Oh onions are gross." I literally can't be in the same room as a freshly cut onion, and the taste of them makes me gag. I don't understand it, but calling someone a child over it is so immature

Like, do you hate raw onions, undercooked ones, or do you even hate caramelised and/or perfectly cooked ones too? What about onion powder? Or dehydrated onion?

Seriously, putting Bell Pepper, (don't care what color) in food is gross. I've tried it multiple times, different preparations, and still tastes horrible. And the lovely burping it up and re-tasting it for hours that follow is the stuff bad days are made of.

This is my safe space, I want to come here and vent, not physically retch by seeing more of these devils.

Ordered a "green" salad, and after a debate with husband we agreed it was just leaves (no cucumber as he doesn't like it), it arrives with green onions on top. As usual, I do the standard pick out but IT happens, and I bite down on the onion and my meal is ruined... The taste-remember shudder is with me for the next week... Anyone else in the same boat of taste-remember nightmare?

I like most things and am okay with every other vegetable, but the one vegetable I hate happens to somehow be on almost every savory dish imaginable, despite it tasting like acid.

I will never understand how we as a society deemed onions edible.

just thought about them and got mad. why are they in everything

With this current lettuce cyclosporiasis scare, it made me wonder why I even bother eating lettuce to begin with. It has no flavor, its big and annoying and it only makes a burger or etc look better when it adds nothing to the food itself.

Ingredient list in my fridge:

1. Red onions
2. White onions
3. Sweet onions
4. Shallots
5. Pickled onions

My girlfriend is out of town for a few days. I do most of the cooking around the house but she hates onions so I can never cook with them and always have to choose lesser, inferior aromatics. Since I’ll be cooking for myself, I bought a shit ton of onions. Give me some ideas for what I can make that will be loaded with slimy yummy oniony goodness. Bonus points if it requires lots of precise, thin cuts so I have an excuse to sharpen my knives while she’s gone. Double bonus points if it doesn’t include meat and cheese, since that’s all she ever wants to eat.

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Heinz Ketchup:Look at the back of the bottle: "onion powder" is explicitly listed right near the end of the ingredients.

Nacho Cheese Doritos: heavily features onion powder. It's what gives the cheese that robust, savory kick.

Ranch Dressing: The foundational flavor profile of classic ranch (like Hidden Valley) is buttermilk, garlic powder, and a very heavy dose of onion powder.

Frozen Chicken Nuggets (like Tyson): Almost every major brand of frozen grocery store chicken nugget (Tyson, Banquet, etc.) explicitly lists onion powder in the breading or the meat seasoning.

BBQ Sauce: Sweet Baby Ray's, Kraft, KC Masterpiece, Almost every commercial, sweet-and-smoky BBQ sauce uses onion powder to balance out the massive amounts of sugar and molasses.

Stove Top Stuffing: Not only does the classic boxed stuffing rely on onion powder in its seasoning packet, but it also contains actual dehydrated onion pieces that rehydrate when you add the boiling water and butter.

Also, pretty much every chicken and noodle soup!

Man, have to cook pretty much everything from scratch practically to avoid onions MAN!!??