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My venture for ‘stupidest post of the year’ award, I was browsing the forum earlier and totally misread the title of the Unions post to be about the general purpose of, yes, onions. There was a small double take.
But really, she says after chopping one of the bastards up over dinner, do they? All they do is make you cry, sprout greenery in the vegetable drawer in the kitchen, shed flakes everywhere etc….
So for a lighter debate, I hereby give you onions. Useful or not?
(Alright I’ve wanted to post this all day, I admit it)
Well Zoz, if you start as a kid and chew a piece of raw onion after every meal and last thing at night and you’ll have the cleanest teeth possible: no need for toothpaste or toothbrush. , No bugg@r will go near you mind, but you’ll have gnashers to put Donny Osmond to shame.
I love onions, eat them with everything. pickled onions aswell at christmas with cider
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Just checked into the forum, and for a split second, I thought “oh bollox, ive called the thread Onions!!”
Amusingly (well to me anyway) most people that were not in the union at the place I used to work called in The Onion.
In reponce to the post, Love um
Onions are truly the Everyman of the vegetable kingdom.
Onion Tip #1: To sex-up an omlette, lob some finely chopped onion, chilli, and green pepper, into the mix. Rye!
“So I went down the local supermarket, I said, ‘I want to make a complaint, this vinegar’s got lumps in it’,
He said, ‘Those are pickled onions'”.
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Reminds me of an E-Mail someone sent to Ken Bruce on his Radio 2 show this morning
"So you think Onions are the only vegetable to make you cry, you try being hit in the wotsits with a Turnip".
Even better than onions is Garlic.
Nothing like being on a crowded bus or underground train with the lovely whiff of garlic. You kind of get used to it.
Seriously though, it is very good for you, my dad was always cooking with it. It has medicinal powers, is an antibiotic and contains hundred of minerals and nutrients and It lowers the blood pressure and cholestrol, good for coughs and colds. One remedy I know for a cough is to crush a clove of garlic and mix it with a teaspoon of honey. Loverly !
I hope so Maggie, it’s probably the second most used ingredient in my house – behind chillis of course.
Made a two person curry on Sunday, which to be fair was double portions so would actually feed four.
Three bulbs (yep not cloves, whole bulbs) of garlic and three onions. No ****** came near me yesterday
Onions are great too.
Lee
They are one of the few ‘fat burning’ foods. Takes more calorific effort to digest them than they are worth.
From my experience, the main purpose of onions is to supply the burnt bits when I make a curry from scratch ……..
Slightly burnt onions are beautiful.
The release of its natural sugar brings joyous scenes to my household.
For Christmas dinner, my Mum always stuffs the turkey with onion stuffing. It’s just finely chopped onion and breadcrumbs, maybe a little seasoning, but you’ll never taste a more delectable turkey.
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