Comment on onions
CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world 1 week agoI wanna know where you shop. I still have to run the gamut of ‘I’m allergic to onions’, ‘does that include green onions?’ ‘…yes.’ among other key signifiera that people don’t really think about what an onion is normally.
I really miss garlic.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 week ago
Just regular super markets, perhaps I’ve just gotten better at finding the onion free stuff. I’ve also figured out for some items it says onion powder as an ingredient, but I have zero reaction. It might be just a tiny amount perhaps, not enough to cause a reaction. Or somewhere along the way the recipe changed and a onion substitute is used without them updating the ingredients list. I have also found out the hard way not everything is like that tho and have gotten reactions from stuff with onion powder in them, even in small amounts.
I still remember finding out I was allergic. Apparently my mom knew since I was very small and just made sure I never ate onions. She however never actually told me, or maybe she did and I forgot because I was a kid, who knows. Until I was a teenager and ate dinner regularly at my girlfriend’s place. Not before long we ate a delicious rabbit stew, which also contained a lot of onion. I proceeded to be sick for weeks after. My mom laughed at me saying I was allergic to onions and I was dumb for eating something like that. I said she never told me I was allergic, but she was sure she had. I was so sick, I learnt my lesson and have avoided onion ever since.
CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Huh. Yeah I have kind of a three strikes thing. I can eat something with onion powder once, but if I do it again withing a couple days it starts fucking me up.
I got officially tested as a teen. I’m also allergic to corn and apples, which are two other incredibly overused food additive bases. I actually didn’t even really feel any effects until my 20’s wgere all pf a sudden I was in an Emergency room in incredible pain. It took taking the allergies seriously to clear it up because otherwise there was apparently no other explaination for why I felt like I was turning inside out every few days.