• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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    9 months ago

    I once had a coworker who just took a bite out of a raw onion right in front of me. They were completely unfazed, like it was an apple or something. I’m still a little emotionally scarred.

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      I had a surly paternal grandmother who seemed to revel in making the lives of children miserable.

      When I was about four years old, I asked for a snack, and she gave me a raw onion.

      I sat at the kitchen table and ate the entire fucking thing like it was the sweetest piece of fruit known to history, staring her in the eye the whole time.

      If I had been just a little bit older and thought of it, I would’ve asked her for another one.

      She died when I was seven. My reaction to this, as she lived in Washington State, was, “Does that mean we get to see Mount Saint Helens?” as the volcano had gone off just a couple weeks prior.

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      There are actually onions that you can do that with. I think the soil where those are grown is low on sulfer or something so the onion cant make the chemical responsible for making your eyes water.

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      9 months ago

      I once knew a guy who peeled and ate a full garlic like one would do with an orange or mandarin, while walking and talking casually.

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        No, I don’t think so. He was a younger guy from the southern US, if I remember correctly. Is that something east europeans do on the regular??

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          Younger guy from the southern US here, I have done this just to fuck with people. I’m just not very sensitive to the “bite” onions are supposed to have. I can chop quite a few of them before my eyes start to water.

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              It sounds like an old wives tale, and maybe I’m naturally resistant, but if I consistently press my tongue to the roof of my mouth as I chop onions, I do not cry.

              Anecdotal, of course.

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          As an eastern european, we eat everything with onions and garlic. Hell, I even eat onions on their own time to time, it tastes good.

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          Southern guy probably was eating a Vidalia onion. The soil is low in sulfur, I believe, and has a more neutral acidity, so the onion is pretty uniquely sweet. I heard one older southerner call them dirt apples.