And I thought I was immune.

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I love onions, I really do. Fried slices over "Kässpätzle" (I refuse to use any of the bad English translations the internet offers) or sausages, or fried and cut into small pieces in various sauces or raw in salads. Whenever we had a meal with onions I used to argue with LB because for some strange and inexplicable reason he doesn´t like them. I say "used to" - he gave up a few months ago. I don´t ask him why just in case he simply forgot.

I also had the good fortune to be able to cut onions without crying. (Or is it "chop"? I´m not good with cooking vocabulary. But it´s amazing how many google hits I got for "How to cut an onion.") For years I thought I was immune to something that I heard happens to everyone else. We had small purple onions last month and I got a little teary, but I thought it must be a special breed. But today I cut two totally normal big onions and now I understand where all the warnings come from: I could hardly see anything and kept running to the tissue box. A romantic love song came up on the radio, which made me feel pathetic, so I tried to think of funny things that came to mind (penguins and the Star Wars cantina, for some reason) and I was still crying.

I do hope it´s a non-recurring thing, and I´m trying really hard not to see it as a bad omen for the exam on Monday.

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

I sympathise! Every time before the summer when I cut onions my eyes would swell up so that I could hardly see - it was horribly painful. Which was annoying as I adore onions. They taste so good.

And then in the summer I got glasses, and they seem to act as magical onion-repellant! :D

Good luck for your exam!

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So it´s seasonal? Hmmm.

Apparently your glasses are better than mine, because mine didn´t help at all. -.-

Thanks!

[frith_in_thorns]

Seasonal? *is confused*

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You wrote "before the summer." Don´t you cut any onions during the rest of the year?

[frith_in_thorns]

Ah, right. I meant that I had this problem all my life up until the summer just gone, which is when I got magical glasses :)

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Of course. Apparently the onions scrambled my brain. *sigh*