• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      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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          9 months ago

          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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      9 months ago

      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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      9 months ago

      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.