My teenage son came in one day and saw me crying copiously as I chopped some particularly strong onions. He assured me that the answer was to eat chocolate at the same time, and, when I didn't believe him, promptly pushed a square into my mouth. It worked!!
Well, I'll be darned! Never heard *that* one... Too bad I'd much rather eat onions than chocolate, but I'm gonna sacrifice and experiment; if it *does* work, then I know *lots* of people who'd be happy to hear the news :)
I've been reading the various accounts with interest, though haven't pitched in until just now. My own problems with onions are so small, they're almost non-existent; especially once I discarded my Mother's way of chopping (in hand, with a blunt-ish knife, starting from the root end <g>) and replaced it with my own (sharp knife, cut the onion -- vertically -- in half, slice each half starting from the stem end, discard the root end, fan-out the slices for "logarythmic" cubing).
So, usually, even with a vicious or exceptionally large onion, all I have to do afterwards is blow my nose and rinse/dry my spectacles. The only exception is when I chop the onions in a processor; the powerful "woof" of *concentrated* odour/gas which comes out the moment I take the lid off to add other ingredients, always has me reeling, blindly... :)
What, BTW, are "Spanish" onions? Someone -- I think in UK -- has mentioned them... Are they the red ones, like the ones used for gazpacho?
On the puter-front... I still don't get to see my own messages as a member of the list, but Avital has steered me to the Mail Archive, so I can check *there* to see if a message "took". That place is both awesome and frightening... Every message, posted to every list, over I-don't-know-how-long-a-period, can be found there... The very idea that every piece of garbage I've ever posted can be tracked and re-read has my stomach flip-flopping... I may have to look for some tongue-clips next time I'm in WalMart... :)
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