food quirk

[newmistakes]

One of the great tragedies of my life is that I can’t eat cooked onions. I love the smell of them as they are frying in a pan. The way they sizzle with a sizeable dollop of butter, the whole carmelisation process that turns raw onions into something spectacular and makes them such an olfactory delight. I just can’t eat them. Well, I can… and I have

Comments

[celtmanx]

It is really sad that you are unable to eat cooked onions as they are truly delicious. I have a similar problem with ginger which can make eating Japanese Hibachi difficult. Did you know that the onion was the first domesticated vegetable?

I dislike turtlenecks on my self, they make me look goofy and on a woman they make her neck difficult to kiss.

[newmistakes]

Thank you for those sympathetic words about my onion issues. Similarly, I want to extend my heartfelt sadness for your ginger problems. Growing up, my mother was always telling me that ginger was good for "women's problems" which put me off eating it. I don't mean to rub it in that I can tolerate ginger and you can't, but reading this has made me really really really want to go out and have Japanese Hibachi.... mmmm Hibachi. Did you know that ancient Egyptians worships onions?

I think turtlenecks make most people look a bit goofy, regardless of their genitals :P How many women are you going around kissing on the neck???!

[celtmanx]

Only one woman recently and only very quickly as it is a ticklish spot for her.

[newmistakes]

It's a ticklish spot for me too, but also quite erogenous. Even just a light breath on the back of my neck has me giggling and turned on haha. Maybe turtleneck wearers are just trying to protect themselves from their paradoxically confusing neck responses!

I'm glad to read that you are a monogamous neck kisser - that shows discernment and neck taste!

[danbok]

maybe you can just be like good old Tony Abbott and chomp directly into the raw onion...

[newmistakes]

I'd rather stick an onion up my jacksie than be anything like Tony Abbot! This is the worst thing you have ever said to me, Danmeister :P

[danbok]

sorry! I didn't want you to emulate that fellow. What a fool.

[newmistakes]

Phew! Okay, I'll forgive you for the terrible searing hurt your Abbott analogy inflicted on my soul :P I'm actually very relieved I don't have to stick an onion up my jacksie to prove I'm like not him! Plus I so rarely threaten to shirtfront evil despots haha (I'd rather wedgie them).

[zoefruitcake]

I have the same feelings about turtlenecks

[newmistakes]

I hoped you would be a kindred turtleneck spirit, my fruity amigo! :)

[tigerweave]

I can't eat them either. Not quite so graphic results but I do have to avoid them. Sadly. Isn't there a neck that is like wide but turtly so it doesn't choke you? I like those but they don't work under jackets as well as full-on turtlenecks.

[newmistakes]

Nope, I can't stand anything being too close to my neck. I feel suffocatory even with a wide neck hole opening.

I'm sorry you are also an onion sufferer. They smell so so delicious that it really is a tragedy not to be able to indulge. Oh well, luckily we are incredibly gifted and awesome in almost every other area - that makes our lack of onioniness easier to take.

[tigerweave]

I agree, it's only a tiny small insignificant issue in otherwise awesome people, right?

[newmistakes]

You're darn tooting, toots! We put the awe in awesome, rather than the crap in craptastic!

[in_frequency]

I, dunno. I've always thought that people wearing turtlenecks, even in appropriate settings (i.e. Skiing), look slightly furtive. Now scarves on the other hand, i bet you could rock some scarves.

[newmistakes]

Luckily I have a relative with a scarf fetish and she always gives me her previous seasons' sloppy scarf seconds. It's extra lucky for me because I always lose scarves wherever I go :)

And yes, I can see how turtleneck wearers could be construed as furtive and somewhat shifty!