THE BAD TASTE
The Thought of Liver and Onions Leaves A Bad Taste in My Mouth
I have gout also so the combination of liver and onions and my body don’t mix well
I know I’m not in the minority here in thinking that liver and onions taste disgusting. I’ve only had it a few times when I was younger. Each time, the taste hit my mouth and my nose at about the same time and had the same response, a violent vomiting reaction.
My mom enjoyed the meal and hoped that I would too. I didn’t. I not only despised the smell but the taste even more. My partner loves liver and onions but knows not to eat them around me. We went to a diner one night and the menu showed it. My partner hadn’t had it in a long time and really wanted to eat it, even with me there. I threatened to walk out and slam the door behind me and leave him to pay the bill and eat it if he even threatened to.
That was shut down pretty quickly. I would’ve thrown up on him if he had even tried. Now that I’m older in my early 40s and have had gout since the age of 21, I have even more of an excuse not to eat it. Liver meats and anything around organs is very bad for my gout. They have such high purine levels that my uric acid would shoot through the roof and I would be walking even more crooked for days, if not weeks.
I saw a couple eating it one time in a restaurant while Mike and I were out and I just covered my nose and looked down at my own plate. I didn’t want to relive the really bad taste of the dish in my head over and over again as I would have to watch them eat it. It’s gotten so bad for me that I’ve had to walk out of rooms where I can smell it being cooked in a microwave.
We all brought our lunches from home a lot when I worked at my last job. I can’t believe that one of my coworkers willingly cooked themselves liver and onions. The thought of this makes me tear up, want to throw up, and fall down all at the same time.
I know not every food is for everyone but who ever thought that it was a good idea to eat animal organs? I wouldn’t want to go around cooking hearts or brains and eating them around people. I can’t even eat anything that I can see a face on much less eat an animal’s previously functioning kidney. Imagine if someone is less than experienced in preparing the food and undercooked it, then you’re basically eating undercooked organs.
That would definitely leave a bad taste in my mouth. I also imagine people overcooking it and having it have a more rough and chewy consistency than it should. I just want to have nothing to do with the liver or any other organs going forward.
If I know in advance that my partner wants to eat it the next time we’re out, I can give him the money and the mouthwash in advance so I’ll even consider going near him to kiss him again. I’m just all sorts of grossed out when I think about this food combination.
I like onions so it’s probably the only dish I wouldn’t eat with onions on the plate. Let me know how you feel about this dish. Do you like it or do you feel the same as I do?
UNRELATED LESSON: Sliced bread has only been around since 1928. It was first introduced as a mass alternative to slicing your own bread. It’s not that sliced bread wasn’t around before then. It obviously was. You just had to cut your own bread. The machines that were used to mass-produce bread were seen as expensive by the government and they unsuccessfully tried to ban bread slicing to reduce consumer costs during World War II. The ban only lasted less than two months and bread was back to being sliced as the ban didn’t really affect the price of bread. About 80% of bread at the time was sliced and most non-sliced, whole breads at this point were coming from Europe. I feel like America kind of did the “let’s take bread and make it shittier and more mass-produced” approach instead of just keeping the tried and true formula coming from breadmakers in Europe for hundreds of years. Technology has allowed us to be lazier and make more food for mass consumption but has also stolen a spirit away from that very same food. I’m happy to know that loaves of bread made the artisanal and traditional way is still popular so we still get a chance to enjoy bread the way it used to be enjoyed before Americans changed the breadmaking game forever. Here is an easy-to-follow, easy-to-make 20 minute YouTube video on how to make bread.
