wonderbound:

okay tumblr, that’s enough baking–what we really need is a nice hearty stew. please pick an ingredient to throw in the (unfathomably large) pot:

potatoes

carrots

onions

peas

celery

garlic

meat/protein

mushrooms

beans

peppers

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copperbadge:

drgaellon:

sandmandaddy69:

This is CURSED.

I need to know where this is because I need to go there, it looks like it’s some kind of onion museum and I have a yearning.

[ID: An image of a “claw game” machine, which would normally be filled with stuffed toys; instead it is filled with unpackaged, luscious-looking yellow onions. Behind it, a service counter is visible, with a giant sculpture of a half-onion in front of it.]

supreme-leader-stoat:

andmaybegayer:

I think so much about the food people ate pre-Columbian exchange. Huge parts of cuisine extremely important on both sides of the pond just didn’t exist.

You’ve probably heard a little about what was brought over from the New World, corn, potatoes, cocoa, cassava, peanuts, chili peppers, avocadoes, cranberries, pumpkins, and the like. Imagine cooking without chili! Without potatoes! Modern Indian cuisine contains enormous amounts of potatoes and we just didn’t have those for the vast majority of history. The best of the nightshades all on one contiguous hunk of land. Hell, tomatoes! Almost forgot about those.

But we don’t often look at what the Old World had. Wheat! Barley! Rice! A profusion of incredible grains, really, the finest poaceae has to offer. Carrots! Tons of rosaceous plants like apples and cherries and pears and peaches and apricots! Grapes! Soy and Bamboo! Okra and watermelon! All these things were simply never found in the Americas. The grains one is the wildest for me, the variety of grains available across Eurasia and Africa was truly astounding.

You know what binds together the food of all cultures across the world? Onions. Onions are fucking everywhere. There’s probably onions growing near you right now. Allium Gang Unite.

localpubliclibrary:

What do you consider the pillars of your diet? Like not what you consider the most delicious, or even necessarily your “favorite” food, but the food that if you look within your heart and are honest with yourself actually eat more often than anything else? I think mine is toast, broccoli, and eggs

dysfunctionalqueer:

Petitions for onions to stop existing

But if there were no more onions, think of what we would be missing! Can you imagine? No more french onion soup. No more caramelized onions on your steaks and burgers. No more onion rings. No more fried onions on your green bean casserole. No more delightful crunch on sandwiches and tacos. We’d have to make do with lettuce for that crunch. Lettuce! And what about mirepoix and Lousiana’s trinity? What would we replace the onion with, hmm? You think about that. You think good and hard what life would be without onions. If you still want to sign this petition, well, I don’t know if we can be friends.