• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My personal prices for each:

    Live grub: $50

    Large raw onion: $25

    Carolina Reaper: $100

    Century egg: $10

    None of these are even $1000 foods, much less $1,000,000 foods.

    If you offered me $1 million to eat all four, I’d do it without thinking twice about it.

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    What is the thing on the bottom right?

    But as someone who likes onions, this is a no-brainer. I’ll eat a dozen onions like they were apples for that much money!

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      Century Eggs are raw eggs kinda cured with lye I think. I’ve eaten one just because I was in China. They’re fine, probably better than a raw brown onion.

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        I will take your word for it. But I will still go with onions all the same, because I never had a century egg, but like I said, I am super familiar with all sorts of onions. Better the devil you know and all that.

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        I think I heard of them. I do not know anything about them. So I will be eating onions. carolina reapers are simply too hot. Onions? Spicy, but very manageable. Also onions are good for you. They’re the most popular vegetable in the world!

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    Bugs one bite would be no issue for 1 million. Maybe even 100 dollars to be honest depends if I had a few beers in me and was at some kind of social event.

    Onion would be fine, no qualms there. I would do it for 20.

    Would prefer not to do the pepper but again I would do the pepper for 100 bucks in the right setting. I’ve had this exact scenario at a restaurant before when we had some drinks in us.

    Wouldn’t do the egg. Would do it for a million but it would be the only one that would feel like a actual challenge.

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    Is that a century egg? I’d eat that. Been wanting to try one actually. I hear they’re tasty af.

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      Yes, I was delicious, but the public wasn’t ready for it so I sold terribly and Salty took me off his damn menu and locked me away down here. And now you know my cool fucking backstory.

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    Ah, they never said whether we can cook them or not. So I’m taking some sautéed onions on a bbq

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      Same. Hell, I wouldn’t mind eating it raw; I like onion, but a whole one at once might be a bit much, so if I can spread it over a couple of hours then it’s easy enough. Although, for 1mill USD I can manage in about 5 minutes, but I could do it for A LOT less. 100$, maybe?

      If I get to roast it, I don’t need to be paid. It’s free food.

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        i can do the entire onion pretty easy if i mix it with a bunch of tomato, cilantro, tomatillo, assorted peppers, lime, salt, and some tortilla chips

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      We already cook tomato hornworms here in the South. 🤷🏼‍♂️ (That dude probably doesn’t taste like a fried tomato though.)

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    Do people really dislike onions that much? Like, I throw diced onions on a ton of different things and usually have to pay for it. I feel like eating a whole onion would just be something I’d do if I was drunk enough and didn’t have anything else in the house.

    Protein tip, diced/sliced onion with a little sugar diluted in vinegar is a great refreshing side dish.

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      I think onions are disgusting, but I’m a Supertaster (it sounds better than it is) so my taste buds are weird. But yes, to me they’re enormously disgusting.

      Thankfully leeks and shallots are both delicious, so when I cook I just replace any onion in a recipe with either leek or shallot.

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      Red or white, I love raw onion. The looks of revulsion I get make it that much better, but I do really enjoy them. They were my #1 grazing food, next to cheese when I worked at a pizza shop long long ago.

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          i’ve managed to avoid that symptom. it legitimately terrifies me. when i was at my lowest, flavor (not food. sometimes just aroma) was all i had left to enjoy.

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      Also … it doesn’t say anything about how you eat those. No prohibition against cooking it or adding additional ingredients. No time limit.

      Chop that onion up, cook it, and use it in a meal or two, and it’ll be totally fine – delicious even. And I don’t even really like onions.

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      I’m not an onion lover, but I’ve somehow recently realized that maybe its because yellow onion sucks? White onion (in chili, salsa, etc) I don’t mind, and might even miss if it were left out. Red onion, it kinda depends, I often don’t want as much as they put on a burger, but I’ll leave some small amount on.

      But, all the recipes that call for yellow onion seem to be things I don’t like. I haven’t just tried one alone, to test, but can onion lovers chime in on whether yellow onion is distinctly different enough to be the kind I’ve hated much of my life?

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        The three main onion colors have different strengths.

        Red - best raw. Great diced or sliced as a topping for salad for example, pizza, or maybe chili.

        White - holds texture very well. “Clean” taste, not overpowering. Great mixed into pico, salsa, etc. Can also be a good topping for chili.

        Yellow - best cooked into food. Has highest sugar content, so amazing for low and slow cooking when you want a sweet (carmelized) taste, or just a nice mellow taste in a stew. Not great to eat raw compared to the others.

        You say you don’t like recipes that call for yellow onions… What do you mean?? You don’t like cooked food? Almost every recipe that calls for cooking an onion will call out yellow onions.

        Please give examples of recipes that you don’t like that call for yellow onions, I will try to work with you. You seem like you are open to new things.

        At the end of the day you might just not like yellow onions. But it might be a texture thing (they can get mushy) or you’re accidentally putting them on stuff raw when a red/white is more appropriate.

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        I hated onions as a kid but enjoy them as an adult.

        Yellow onions are kind of the “default” onion in my mind. Basically anything cooked in a skillet can start with some onions in butter or oil. Or as part of the base to start a soup. Most of the time, the onion itself kind of fades into the background, adding some sweet notes to a dish.

        Red and white onions are more likely to be used raw (chili topping, pico, added to some salads…). But if I’m cooking, it’s usually a yellow onion.

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        I eat the kind pictured in the OP image almost exclusively, because they’re the cheapest where I live. They aren’t that different from red onions to warrant the hate. Idk about white ones, they aren’t popular here at all.

        Put yellow onions on sandwiches, it’ll be fine. Great for frying too. I personally don’t like boiled onions, but it’s used in soups around here quite a bit.

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    A couple of years ago I grew some habanero peppers in my garden. One of the plants had been mislabeled, however, and turned out to be carolina reapers. Eating them didn’t feel like normal hot peppers – it felt like I had been punched hard in the lips.

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      We grew some reapers intentionally once and we quickly figured out the best way to use them was to chop them up, scrape them into the compost bin, and then cut other stuff without washing the cutting board.

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        One of them chopped finely in a stir fry is fine, but only if you’re looking to eat something actually hot. For a crock pot full of a chilli meat/bean sauce, one reaper and a couple of bhut jolokia is about right for a nice medium heat.