Sucks to have IBS, it’s hard to avoid alliums…
How sensitive are you? I’ve found I struggle with them a bit if I eat lots suddenly after not eating them for a while, but if I continue, it tends to be fine. My guess is that the reason it is inconsistent for me is related to fluctuations in gut bacteria partially due to what I am eating…
I know actual IBS is no joke, but I think it would be interesting to determine your threshold and see if you can change it at all. For example, eat a pea-sized piece of onion and wait a couple days. No effect, start eating a pea-sized piece of onion every day and wait for cumulative effects (a week or two?). Still no effect, add another piece for one day, go back to regular dose for a couple days, etc. When you reach the point where it starts to cause discomfort, back off a bit and try to push it again in a week or two.
I’ve never really tried to change it, I adapted as best as I could.
I’m intolerant to most fodmap (lactose, mannitol, fructans, gos and fructose). I also noticed that gluten can wreck me if I eat too much of it, fatty food can trigger me as well as alcohol.
It was hard to get used to it but now it’s a question of self regulation. I skip most of the things that trigger me and indulge sometimes, often a bit too much and I have to face the consequences for up to a week or so. Lactose is the easiest to deal with because of lactase, the rest not so much… I guess at least I’m not celiac or suffering of Crohn’s, so that’s that I guess.
My mother does not like onions.
I am glad I did not inherit that horrific genetic abnormality.
My gf does not like the texture of onions.
The taste is fine with her, so I think I’m gonna have to get used to cooking for her with minced onions…
My mom was (and is) a terrible cook in many other ways, but the ‘I’m not making you anything with onions in it’ as a kid kind of sucked.
I’m just glad my grandmother was a good cook.
I feel bad for my brother right now, since his gf cannot have onions and garlic due to a food intolerance. At least spring onions are still tolerable, but still…
Garlic and onions are the basis for so many things that we cook at my house. I can’t imagine not having them in my diet.
I don’t like onions. It’s literally the one food I do not like. I’ve tried them many times, many ways, and still nope.
Raw and cooked? Maybe try it minced, cooked extremely soft and mixed into a sauce so there are no visible pieces?
I will use it to cook in soups and such, but otherwise, no thank you. I’ve replaced it with leeks and shallots.
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.
Sweet onions were consider a desert by the Romans and they would eat them like we do apples.
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.
My grandfather used to eat vidalia onions like apples. They’re pretty sweet & mild.
Do you happen to work at a mid-sized paper company?
No, that was a potato… or a beet.
But you gotta admit, it’s a very Creed thing to do
Was he Eastern European?
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??
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.
Your cutting technique can make a huge difference too, avoid cutting the base and there’s less of that sticking l chemical released
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.
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.
When I was a child we often had peeled garlic on the table for me to snack on it during dinner. I must have smelled hideously.
Like a clove, or the entire head of garlic?
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.
Allium family also make the world nicer, even those for the kitchen have nice flowers if planted.
Wow!! Do they grow that spherical or are those groomed??
Either way, beautiful!!
They grow mostly spherical, but depending of the species of ornamental allium. Also a normal onion has a beautifull flower if you plant it.
Onion
Garlic
Holy, that’s so pretty! Would love to have some in my garden.
There are several webs of ornamental allium which show how to plant and care for them, the different species, etc.
OOOOOOHHH ALLIUM NOT “ALLISM”… I was so confused what this had to do with nuerotypical and nuerodivergent people
Btw, how are the little onions named?
Shallots? They’re bottom left.
Thanks. I hate them.
What?! Noooo! They’re one of the best things you can add to a dish. They’re religiously used in kitchens all over the world. Sauted in some eggs? Mmmm perfect
You include shallots, but not spring onions? I feel offended.
Why 3 onions though? Why no chives?
Their foil is pretty good at keeping stuff fresh too (as well as making good anti-mind-control hats)
S TIER: Shallot, Garlic
A TIER: Leek
F TIER: All of the others
Yellow onions are good
Also red, also spring.
It sucks having an allium intolerance… no one will take my garlic from me though, even if it makes me miserable later
There used to be an garlic restaurant near my old house and basically EVERYTHING was garlic based. It was heaven.
Guess what. They had garlic ice cream and it was DELICIOUS. Nothing like I thought it would be. It was light and sort of fruity and sweet.
Goddamit I miss that place.
No way
Straight up.
I want garlic ice cream now
Me too.
I’d guess the garlic was deeply roasted until brown and sweet for the ice cream?
Gallium enjoyers: 💀
All yums.
I have mixed feelings because they are dog poison. Makes me feel like they’re kind of evil.
If grapes and chocolate are evil I think I’d rather be evil.
They’re people poison too. We just out-toleranced them.
Really? I didn’t know!
I feel like that’s a lot of things. Some of us poison ourselves recreationally with alcohol.
