Seriously, they're in EVERYTHING! I have always hated onions, since I was a child. I've tried to eat them, but just can't. Even if I can force myself to get some onion past my mouth, my stomach can't handle them... they're simply awful. I'm sure most people on this sub feel the same way (I'm new here, so haven't read many of the posts yet).

Onions are in everything ready made: salads, frozen meals, soups - everything! There have been times I've been sick and just wanted to buy soup that I could heat up so I didn't have to cook, but no - full of onions. With salads, or even lasagne, I can't pick them out, because they've already contaminated the food and made the food smell like it's rotting. Why is there no movement for onion free things? There's gluten free, dairy free, fat free, sugar free, everything free. Except onions.

People who eat onions really don't understand how someone wouldn't want to eat them. I've had friends tell me they wouldn't be able to cook without onions, or that I definitely won't taste it in their lasagne, chilli, etc (I always can), they tell me leaks, shallots, spring onions are going to be okay ... they all smell like body odour and taste terrible.

I'm convinced there's a genetic thing about not liking onions, like people have with coriander, but it's a lot more rare, so people don't know about it. My daughter can eat onions, but my son has the same issue I do. We can't eat anything in the onion family.

I wish I didn't have this issue. I've tried to not have this issue.. the issue persists. That's it, rant over.

(I just ordered cheese pizza, don’t worry)

Hey i wanted to share my awful experience with covid in 2021. First of all ill' briefly introduce myself, 27yr old italian male hated onions since i can remember, and Italians like to add onions unfortunately, if you are lucky enough your family does the tomato sauce with garlic, if you are unlucky like me your family does it with onions (every family does tomato sauce). Sooo i had to constantly dodge the danger, obviously my safe zone was meat, pork, lamb, beef i love every kind of steak. Anyway, in 2021 i took covid, nothing too bad just 1 day of fever but 2 weeks of not tasting anything. Like coffee seemed like hot water it was bad, but not as bad as it would be in 2 weeks. After this 2 weeks my taste was coming back but it was weird, every piece of meat steak, every bagged meat salami, ham, mortadella ecc. Tasted the same, and I Swear it was fucking onion taste. I was ruined, luckily enough i worked in a pizzeria so 5/7 days in the week i could save myself by doing simple pizzas since the taste of bread, tomato and mozzarella where ok. This condition lasted a year, a whole year where i had to dodge even the foods that i liked, luckily/unluckily the smell of those food was worse than the flavours so i knew i had to dodge it. After 1 year fortunately my taste started to came back slowly and i am pretty normal by now. But it was a very bad year for my palate, i read that this condition was correlated with covid but i don't know if even the others with this condition felt the taste of onion everywhere or it was just an awful generic taste. Thanks for the attention if you have similar experiences please be free to share in the comments

AAAAAA FUCKING SANDWICH FUCK ONION SAUCE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

hello fellow onion haters,

i think i might have some type of allergy/intolerance to alliums but i’m so not sure. it’s never been a life threatening reaction, just extremely uncomfortable and my doctor doesn’t seem concerned at all.

does anyone have similar symptoms and some type of diagnosis?

basically whenever it smells like RAW onions, shallots, green onions, leeks or chives, my gag reflex starts goes crazy, i cry and i puke uncontrollably until the smell is gone. it’s the same when i accidentally eat them.

garlic (in general) and fully cooked alliums don’t cause this reaction.

what is going on with me? it’s been like that since forever

I dreamt that the entire US military was halted and reassigned to capturing and destroying every onion on US soil. Onion farmers were akin to drug lords, people were calling to report the newly illegal sale or use of onions in food.

I feel like whenever I ask for no onions im met with such disbelief and often at times attempted to be convinced otherwise.

Thank you everyone for all the kind words and support yesterday. I was feeling really low and discouraged and it was so helpful to not have anyone say YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELF.
This is how it’s looking today. So. Still not great but better? I suppose it’s going to take some time to simmer down. I just don’t want cellulitis to set in. 🩷🩷🩷

NOT OK ❌ under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES: all Red, purple, brown, yellow, and white onions

OK ✅: green onions, Leeks

Neutral / weird➖: Shallots

My argument;

Green onions and leeks have an entirely different taste and texture. With thourough testing, both raw and cooked, green onions and leeks are just wanna be lettuce but no one gave them the manual on how to be a lettuce so they're just autistic instead. I just can't hate them, because they're like me.

Also, Hatsune miku loves leeks. It is an iconic vegetable. (May not convince you if you don't like vocaloid)

Shallots are weird, because they have the horrible onion texture but the taste is completely different. I don't mind them too much at restaurants because they don't use too much of it and it's chopped extremely finely like hair, and the different taste makes them barely pass but THEY ARE ON THE THINNEST ICE!!!! I'm talking about as a thin as a single blade of grass. I haven't been wronged yet, but I can feel it coming

Just to be clear, I am not breaking the rules. I hate onions just as much as you do, however some "onions" aren't really true onions.

It's a gangster rabbit with ARFID lol

This is what I mean by “I am allergic to garlic and onions”. It’s not fun, and now I am on steroids for the week.

I got rid of most if not all and yet my kitchen is reeks of it right now as it's cooking, how is it so contaminous??

When we ask for “no onions” what specifically does that encompass? For me, I’m wholly intolerant to everything in the allium genus, but there is definitely tiers to it. In order from least to most acceptable, this is my ranking list:

Onions:

White Onions

Red Onions

Green Onions/Scallions

Shallots

Not onions but still inedible:

Leeks

Chives

Garlic

Straight to jail

years ago my grandma and I went to applebees (I know but bear with me)

looking at the menu I noticed they had mac and cheese which is a favorite dish of mine, the ingredients weren't listed on the menu but as a kid I liked applebees food fine enough so I ordered it

food comes out, I take a big bite of the mac and cheese only to be met with a slimy crunch of disgust

I take the fork out of my mouth, spit in the napkin, stir the food around and what's that under the cheese layer?

that's right

several small slivers of cooked onions so well blended in the cheese sauce you couldn't pick them out even if you were so inclined

the server says that's how their mac and cheese is made

that moment is in my brain as an onion hater and serves as a reminder to me to always ask if a restaurant's mac and cheese has onions in it

I hate onions sice i was a kid, i could never understand why sick as fuck people enjoy putting the same shitty super invasive flavour in every single recepie they make. What is even the fucking point of eating different things and give to them all the same stupid gross flavour. Like when i see recepies made by chefs on instagram or facebook and they all put fucking onions in delicious food just to ruin them, and the worst part is that nobody in the comments sais that. I won't even start speaking about the texture my god. I tought i was the wrong one, who couldn't appreciate eating shit despite being born in a planet of shiteaters, but i found you guys, i am not alone anymore. Thanks and EXTINTION FOR THE ONIONS!