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In reply to the discussion: Potato Salad Recipes, submit yours [View all]hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)25. You probably know that raw onion doesn't taste anything at all like that to most of us.
You and your brother must have a (genetic?) sensitivity that makes them taste as they do to both of you. I know what that's like. The super-premium French perfume, Joy, smells exactly like bug spray to me. The first couple of times that happened I asked everyone around why the unfortunate wearer smelled like she was doused in insecticide. They just smelled an expensive perfume if they noticed the scent at all. I finally asked a relative who was wearing it what perfume she had on and she told me it was Joy. Just a weird misfiring of the olfactory receptors (and in your case, possibly the taste buds) that screw up a particular smell/taste is my guess.
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Flavor. Raw onions taste like rotting garbage soaked in battery acid.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jul 2018
#9
You probably know that raw onion doesn't taste anything at all like that to most of us.
hedda_foil
Jul 2018
#25
I like to put a couple of tablespoons of vinegar on the cooked drained potatoes
csziggy
Jul 2018
#38
A meme online about a clueless white woman using raisins in her potato salad &
irisblue
Jul 2018
#19
Protip: rinse the chopped onion to get that icky onion juice flavor out. you'll never go back ...
elehhhhna
Jul 2018
#16
My recipe is very close to yours (but no celery) and I add additional good stuff!
PearliePoo2
Jul 2018
#31
Potatoes, hard boiled eggs, celery, red pepper, scallions, green olives mixed with
Vinca
Jul 2018
#41