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While I'd never eat a raw onion as if it were an apple, I certainly love onions very much. There is rarely (if at all) a thing that I cook (other than desserts) that doesn't include onions and garlic. My Gran used to tell me that onions make everything better, and they do. Like you, I can eat a bowl of caramelised onions with a slice of freshly baked bread and consider it dinner.

That said, I'm not that crazy about chunks of raw onions (I don't mind them when they're cooked and still slightly crunchy in some applications though). In salads, I mostly use shallots or red onions, and when I do use yellow or Spanish onions in some salads as well (like, smoked whitefish salad), I dice them very finely.

Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, there's absolutely nothing wrong with you!:-)

Oh, I also love spring onions. Yum.

Don't listen to him, men aren't too smart when it comes to women. Trust me, I am one and I'm not always so smart.

You know why God created women don't you? Men couldn't handle it by themselves.

@Meg - your story reminded me of my roasted potato salad. I make it with plenty of sliced red onions and a rosemary-red wine vinegar dressing/vinaigrette (I may also add some kalamata olives and/or real bacon bits, but the basic ingredients are roasted red potatoes, red onions and the vinaigrette).

I make the vinaigrette first, slice the onions and soak them in it, for at least two hours. Overnight is even better (when I have patience). Only then do I roast the potatoes and while they are still hot, I mix them with the onion/vinaigrette mixture. It turns out so good, and the onions are absolutely incredible. I keep meaning to just make a jar of red onions in that vinaigrette.

I love all onions and anything remotely related to the onion family. I have to have onions in everything. The only way I don't like onions is some of the frozen breaded onion rings you get at the supermarket or some joint that serves such (but that is not the onions fault).

YES! Onions RULE!

I love onions, but I don't think I'm quite hardcore enough to nosh on them like an apple. I'll eat raw slivers, and I'll put raw onions in sandwiches and salads and whatnot, but a bite out of an onion? Don't think I could handle that. And I love cooked onions in well...whatever you can put them in.

db~i think your on to something.

I hate onions, so I return dishes with onions and garlic in it...so you won't catch me eating it like a pear.

My husband is not allowed to eat raw onions when I'm around because I detest the way they smell to the point of retching in public. He tries to eat them in burgers when I'm at work, but I can always smell them 6 hours later...in the 5 minutes the burger was transported in the car to be consumed at home.

I wouldn't say your obsession is bizarre, just as my polar opposite hatred of onions and garlic isn't bizarre. We all have our quirks.

I love onions. My 10 year old son loves them even more.
He eats onions (red) like apples.
He loves roasted pearl onions.
When I make pizza, there has to be more onions than cheese on his pizza (he doesn't like cheese, he likes ONIONS).
Burger--an equal amount of sliced raw onion to the patty, please. Yes, at least he says please.
Scalloped potatoes with a sprinkle of onion on top!
Don't even think about an omelet without chives (onion related flavor), and no, I haven't suggested an onion filled omelet; it's just a matter of time before he comes up with it on his own.
Brush well and shower once or twice daily to avoid smelling like a sweaty armpit is advice to him. He thinks I'm funny when I say that.

ONIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh magical onions. If I have time I will chop up 4 or 5 big ones knowing they will be used soon. Our kids were weaned on onions and love them. Husband would wonder if I had gone mad if no onions were to show up in a meal. We asked a friend who was passing through Valdosta, GA last year to pick us up some Vidalias. He brought 50 pounds!! Onion heaven.

Absolutely. On and in nearly everything with a couple of notable exceptions. Never on pizza and I've agreed to try with fish (another thread).

I roast, grill, saute, carmelize, and add to every soup and stew, sauce, you name it. Raw - salads of all kinds, diced on a hot dog, sliced on a burger and liverwurst sandwich. Grated in a deviled egg. I couldn't eat one like an apple.

Onions don't make me cry. I remember that they bothered me when I was a kid making salads and such (I was a sous chef by 5 LOL), but they don't even irritate my eyes anymore. I wonder if it's something you get used to?

I like onions, but don't always eat them because of the bad taste they leave!

I had a boss once in college who seemed to think she liked onions an awful lot! I was working as this lady's personal assistant. She would always demand I go to the store, buy some onions (about 10) and cut them all up and put them in a tupperware container in her fridge where they would sit there and rot. This cycle would repeat itself varying between purple and white onions. I don't think she ever ate any of them. Even if she did, she was one person living with 2 kids. No way would anyone eat THAT many onions at once!

All this onion chopping lead to the oddest "compliment" I have ever gotten. One day as I was chopping and crying as a result, she came in and stared at my eyes. Then she ran to a mirror and told me to follow her. Then she stated that the whites of my eyes were the whitest she had ever seen and she wished hers were that white. Needless to say, I'm glad I don't work in that job anymore! Maybe I should consider adding "onion chopper" to my resume though. ;-)

I'm an onion lover too....yes...a dish of onions as my vegetable with dinner isn't out of the question. I'm also like dhorst's son....have to have lots of onions on my pizza....I regularly ask for extra onions.
I rarely get sick either....had a nun in school who used to tell us to eat raw onions if you felt a cold coming on.

And it isn't just 'onions', but SWEET onions. I have no use for yellow onions for the most part, but living here in the home region of Walla Walla Sweets made me a true believer of sweet onions over 50 years ago.

I tend to buy local as much as I can, however with onions I will buy whatever sweet is available, even Peruvian if that's all that I can get. Vidalia, Texas Sweet, Mayan, whatever. We tend to buy 3 or 4 pf the 5-pound bags at CostCo every time we go and usually supplement with others in between. In season I get them at the co-op or farmer's markets.

I tend to put sweet onions and garlic in everything except for breakfast cereal, and I don't eat breakfast cereal.

My dad taught me at a young age to love eating chunks or slices of sweet onions just like an apple. If I make a green salad I always put lots of fresh raw onion in it. Omelets, stews, everything. First thing we did with our new crockpot last week was make a couple of quarts of carmelized onions.

I don't get what some folks have said about "bad breath" or "body odors" - that is what you are SUPPOSED to smell like.

foodbuff, that sounds wonderful! I love both mushrooms and onions!

@onepercent- Eh, I wouldn't take it that far... :)

I'm an onion lover and usually have at least two or three varieties in my kitchen. Right now I have sweets, regular "boiling" onions, scallions and leeks. What annoys me is some supermarkets mark their sweet onions "vidalia," but they're from other places such as Texas, Colorado or Mexico. You'd think the produce manager would know that vidalias come from a specific region in Georgia. I like to eat the sweet varieties raw (besides vidalia, there's walla walla, oso sweet, Texas sweets). And I don't have to worry about onion breath. I live alone and, unfortunately, I don't have anyone to kiss!