Thursday, September 19, 2013

A Disappointment of Onions

Is there anything more disappointing than biting into a sandwich and finding it full of onions?  I understand that many sandwiches, and most burgers come with onions by default.  It is one of the defining factors of my existence, that I have to special order things and tell them to....

....wait for it....

Hold the Onions!!!

But, three times recently, I have been annoyed to find that what I bought had been infested by a disappointment of onions.  Yes, I just coined the phrase.  You have a murder of crows, a pride of lions, a mischief of mice, and now, I am adding to the English language...

A Disappointment of Onions

Which, shall be defined as...

Enough onions to ruin whatever dish they are added to.

If I ruled the world, every menu would be required to include ONIONS in big red letters beside any dish that included onions.

When I can see the onions in the picture of the item, or can reasonably assume that onions will be in the dish (you do not know how hard it is for me to put "reasonably" and "onions" in the same sentence), then I am careful to order them without the offending onions, but today's sandwich showed no outward sign of onions (and there was no big red ONIONS on the menu), and since it was a chicken sandwich rather than a burger, I gave no consideration to the possible presence of the evil onion.

Well, I think that this is my first onion rant, but I doubt it will be my last.  The last two onion offenses were both by browned onions, I am not sure I would call them caramelized, but I am betting that they do.  But, onions on a BBQ chicken sandwich?  That is simply not necessary, and it is not listed on the menu, nor does it show in the picture.  Unfortunately, it was a fast food restaurant and I had driven off before I discovered the onion pollution.

Well, at least I will remember next time.

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