Do you love onions?

[elshiva]

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=5063

I Love Onions sung by Susan Christie

I don't like snails, or toads, or frogs,
Or strange things living under logs,
But, mmm, I love onions.
I don't like dancin' with crazy Ted,
He's always jumpin' on my head,
But, mmm, I love onions.

Onions, onions, la la la. Onions, onions, ha ha ha.
Root toot doodle-ee-oot doot doo doot.
Onions, onions, la la la. Onions, onions, ha ha ha.
Root toot doodle-ee-oot doot doo doot.

I don't like rain, or snow, or hail,
Or Moby Dick, the great white whale,
But, mmm, I love onions.
I don't like shoes that pinch your toes,
Or people who squirt you with a garden hose,
But, mmm, I love onions.

Onions, onions, la la la. Onions, onions, ha ha ha.
Root toot doodle-ee-oot doot doo doot.
Onions, onions, la la la. Onions, onions, ha ha ha.
Root toot doodle-ee-oot doot doo doot. Yeah!

The onion is a tuberous vegetable and is a member of the genus stinkus delicioso. It was highly prized by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, and their friends and cousins-a. They cause watering of the eyes and rubifaction of the skin, but it is very, very tasty. (huhuh)

Onions, onions, la la la. Onions, onions, ha ha ha.
Root toot doodle-ee-oot doot doo doot.
Onions, onions, la la la. Onions, onions, ha ha ha.
Root toot doodle-ee-oot doot doo doot.

How vewwy, vewwy cwude!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I hate onions, and I am horrified to learn that there is a song about loving them.

:hi:

[elshiva]

3. Anti-Onionism is terrible.

:( :cry:

[mainegreen]

2. Yes, and I've been known to eat some raw like an apple.

[elshiva]

4. Yes, they are so delicious.

:) :9

[Forkboy]

5. There's few food items that onions can't help.

Though I'm not sure we needed a song about them (he says while listening to Carcass singing a song about using human sinews to make a musical instrument, with the classic line, "You will rest in my piece"). :silly:

[fNord]

6. wow....

wouldn't I love to be an onion too............

[elshiva]

7. You are already a golden apple.

:)

[fNord]

16. Hail Eris!

But I wana be an onion now.

[elshiva]

17. You can't compare apples and onions.

:)

Will you put onions on your hot dog this Friday?

[fNord]

22. nope....

I shit on the goddess mit Kraut!

[elshiva]

23. Sour Kraut?

[fNord]

25. lol.....

:rofl:

that was priceless.

yeah, by the way. I only like onions in soup, on the grill, as satirical rags, and in creepy-but-sexy 60's songs

[elshiva]

27. Thank you.

[cemaphonic]

8. Just made French Onion soup last night.

In general, there's not of recipes that I cook that don't involve onions.

[elshiva]

10. Mmm French Onion Soup!

:9

[siligut]

13. Recipes!

French Onion Soup

1/2 sweet onion like Vidalia or Spanish, chopped into strips.
boil enough water for bouillon, 12-14 ounces for 2 people.
3/4 Knorr’s vegetable cube for 2 servings.
Some old bread, preferably one with a chewy crust, like sough dough.
Cheese, mozzarella and Parmesan are good.

Sauté onion in a 2TBS or so of olive oil and butter until translucent and with a few browned spots. In the meantime, dissolve 3/4 bouillon cube in boiling water.
Divide bouillon into 2 ovenproof bowls and add 1/2 of the onions to each bowl.
Float a chunk of bread and then add a handful of the cheeses both over bread and into bowl. Place on a cookie sheet and then under broiler. Remove carefully once cheese on top of bread is browned and bubbly.


Green onions and blue cheese dip!

8 ounces softened American neufchâtel
1/4 cup low fat sour cream
Enough half and half to thin down to desired consistency, few TBS to 1/4 cup.
4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
4 green onions chopped, use almost all except very ends.
Pepper to taste.

Make a smooth mixture of 1st 3 ingredients, add last 3 and stir in. Serve with tortilla chips, or can be used as dressing on salad or for dipping chicken wings.

[elshiva]

14. Thank you siligut.

:) :toast:

[RoyGBiv]

9. Sprinkles!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmUxD4dAcJQ

[Robeson]

11. I hate and despise them. The need for onions in food is a myth....

...yuck. Blah. EEEK. Gross.

[elshiva]

12. ANTI-ONIONISM! DON'T HATE ON THE ONIONS!

:cry:

[Wapsie B]

15. Yes and I remember the song too.

[grasswire]

18. just had a serving of pearl onions browned in butter and balsamic...

...alongside my salmon patties. They were deelicious.

[pokerfan]

19. Walla Walla

Sweets!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla_Walla,_Washington#Agriculture

I suppose youse people hate apples too.

[DarkTirade]

20. I like Ogres, and Ogres are kinda like onions...

[elshiva]

21. Good.

:) :hi:

[TX Screwball]

24. Funyons are like onions, so...

...I like onions in the form of Funyons.

Love? It is too soon.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Lullaby of the Onion

By Miguel Hernández: Born into a peasant family in Spain in 1910, Miguel Hernandez had little formal education but succeeded in publishing his first book of poems by age 23. Arrested several times for opposing Franco, he died at 31 of tuberculosis contracted in prison. In "Lullaby of the Onion," he reflects on the present condition of and future prospects for his baby son.

The poem was written after he received a letter from his wife stating that she had only bread and onions to eat.

Sung by Joan Manuel Serrat - Nanas de la Cebolla 1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrAkZr4E9I

The onion is frost
shut in and poor.
Frost of your days
and of my nights.
Hunger and onion,
black ice and frost
large and round.

My little boy
was in hunger's cradle.
He was nursed
on onion blood.
But your blood
is frosted with sugar,
onion and hunger.

A dark woman
dissolved in moonlight
pours herself thread by thread
into the cradle.
Laugh, son,
you can swallow the moon
when you want to.

Lark of my house,
keep laughing.
The laughter in your eyes
is the light of the world.
Laugh so much
that my soul, hearing you,
will beat in space.

Your laughter frees me,
gives me wings.
It sweeps away my loneliness,
knocks down my cell.
Mouth that flies,
heart that turns
to lightning on your lips.

Your laughter is
the sharpest sword,
conqueror of flowers
and larks.
Rival of the sun.
Future of my bones
and of my love.

The flesh fluttering,
the sudden eyelid,
and the baby is rosier
than ever.
How many linnets
take off, wings fluttering,
from your body!

I woke up from childhood:
don't you wake up.
I have to frown:
always laugh.
Keep to your cradle,
defending laughter
feather by feather.

Yours is a flight so high,
so wide
that your body is a sky
newly born.
If only I could climb
to the origin
of your flight!

Eight months old you laugh
with five orange blossoms.
With five little
ferocities.
With five teeth
like five young
jasmine blossoms.

They will be the frontier
of tomorrow's kisses
when you feel your teeth
as weapons,
when you feel a flame
running toward your gums
driving toward the centre.

Fly away, son, on the double
moon of the breast:
it is saddened by onion,
you are satisfied.
Don't let go.
Don't find out what's happening,
or what goes on.

[elshiva]

28. Thank you. That is beautiful and so sad.

:cry: :hug:

[Xipe Totec]

29. Both Hernandez and Serrat are poets in their own right

The Lullaby of the Onion is one of those poems that can change your outlook on life.

I'm glad you liked it.

:hug:

[elshiva]

30. Dear Xipe Totec,

I am embarrassed that I had never heard of these poets before. Thank you for sharing.

:hug:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. Sauteed in butter until light brown, please.

Can't eat em raw.

[enigmatic]

32. yes, very much

:D

[Lethe]

33. Onions is all I eat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA_3MnVen08

funny? yes

relevent? maybe

[KG]

34. so much so that i keep a couple dangling from my belt.

[MrSlayer]

35. "Love" may be a bit strong.

In certain applications they are good.

[elshiva]

36. I like your sig line picture.