In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> >
> > It's gotta be minced for me to tolerate it. :-P
> > Mom did serve it a lot since she loved it.
> >
> > I still won't eat raw onions (or raw carrots) but I enjoy both of them
> > cooked. :-)
> > --
>
> Raw onions are great in the right things. Sliced onion is terrific with
> smoked
> salmon (with cream cheese and capers), on cold cut sandwiches, on hamburgers,
> in a
> grilled cheese sandwich. Shopped green onions are good in salmon or tuna
> salad.
>
> I don't care much for cooked carrots. I sometimes cook them and have a little
> and I
> will eat them I someone serves them to me. I love raw carrots. There is
> nothing
> quite as tasty as a raw carrot fresh from the garden.
>
>

It's the texture of chewed up raw carrot that gets me, not the flavor.
I just can't swallow it.

It's the same reason I can't handle coconut either. I LOVE coconut
flavor but trying to swallow shredded coconut is like trying to swallow
shredded paper. ;-P
--
Om.

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