Gravy's Cooking Thread
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Yeah, I think people forget what grocery stores used to be like. Especially in a small town.
Likewise haven't seen it since childhood, I always assumed it was an old-school poor people thing rather than a deliberate decision.
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Same. It's a lot to do with texture and smell. Like, onion rings are awesome. But just cooking onions down and incorporating into a meal? Yeah no thank you. Replacing the onions in that same meal with onion powder and some garlic? Works for me. Taste is so weird.
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LOL, onion is like THE aromatic thats in pretty much 90% savory dish ever contrived. In pretty much all cultures too. You guys are a bunch of weirdos with your 10 yr old hate of onions.
Shit the worst, I remember my mom giving me some onion syrup back in Poland when I was a kid, it was supposed to be a cough medicine. It was literally onions macerated in sugar. Talk about nasty shit, I still have nightmares.
Or that one time some dude bet me to bite into a raw onion like an apple back when I was a teen working for A&W. So I bit into it, swallowed but my mouth was fucked with onion taste for the enitire day. Then you got the onion burps on top of it. Ugggh. Not worth the $20 I scored.
But that onion syrup was fucking nasty. I bet they could use that as a torture device, for reals.
Shit the worst, I remember my mom giving me some onion syrup back in Poland when I was a kid, it was supposed to be a cough medicine. It was literally onions macerated in sugar. Talk about nasty shit, I still have nightmares.
Or that one time some dude bet me to bite into a raw onion like an apple back when I was a teen working for A&W. So I bit into it, swallowed but my mouth was fucked with onion taste for the enitire day. Then you got the onion burps on top of it. Ugggh. Not worth the $20 I scored.
But that onion syrup was fucking nasty. I bet they could use that as a torture device, for reals.
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I agree with this. You have to be eating onions all the time without knowing it if you actually eat out. It's got to be a psychological remnant of childhood because it just doesn't make sense otherwise.
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It's texture for me. I've forced myself to eat onions in meals and it's like some mental block
"GOD I THINK I JUST BIT INTO ONE"
"GOD I THINK I JUST BIT INTO ONE"
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I always wonder if the limited amount of foods my mom could cook attributed to my shitty palate (not counting my faggot super tasting)
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I think I mentioned here before, my dad didn't cook well. Like, people were joking here about boiling hot dogs, that's how he cooked hot dogs my entire childhood. I never ate a fresh vegetable, ever, he only used canned shit so I hated virtually all vegetables because of that. Not knocking him, whatever, single dads got it rough and he worked a lot etc, and also I think it was how he was raised. After leaving home I started eating other stuff and learned to cook and mostly got over all that, except the onion thing.
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i've never had the crying onion issue.
i love halving onions
i love slicing them thin, theres this almost (in a gay kind of way) "zen" like sound you hear and you can feel through your blade when you slice through 9 layers of onion and break all those cell walls...
and then that moment when you're carmalizing onions and the pungent odor turns sweet...
otherwise i hate onions, fuck that and i go through 2lbs of onions a week (just buy that easy 2lb bag) with soups and stock and whatever.
i love halving onions
i love slicing them thin, theres this almost (in a gay kind of way) "zen" like sound you hear and you can feel through your blade when you slice through 9 layers of onion and break all those cell walls...
and then that moment when you're carmalizing onions and the pungent odor turns sweet...
otherwise i hate onions, fuck that and i go through 2lbs of onions a week (just buy that easy 2lb bag) with soups and stock and whatever.
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