This is called "Su vegetarianism" and is practiced mostly in Taiwan. This kind of vegetarianism avoids things from the allium family ("fetid vegetables")
Onions
onions fucking suck
Fuck you man
its a spiritual vegetable. its here literally to protect us.
Onions are love. Onions are life.
onion eatin ass bitch
>raw diced onion on a hotdog
UMPH
I think most people who say they don't like onions have had them prepared improperly. There's a huge difference between a salad with too many large slices of onion, and a salad with the perfect amount of super-thinly sliced onion. Same thing with cooking onions, they take a while to cook down and if they aren't cooked all the way the texture won't be right. And for caramelized onions it takes at least a half hour to get them caramelized, not sure how so many recipes started coming out saying you'll get caramelized onions in 5-10 minutes. And throwing in a few onions in a pot of stew that's going to simmer results in a thicker broth with the onions literally melting into it and becoming sweet.
If you know how to use them, they're brilliant and delicious. If you don't know how to use them, they can ruin an entire dish.
Takes a special type of sperg that doesn't view the varieties as a given.
> its not the huge selection of different sorts of onions, its how you cut them that makes them taste different.
I don't think that's what he was saying, but that's not wrong. There's a big difference between a thick slice of onion and the same amount that was sliced as thin as possible.