My grandfather used to eat vidalia onions like apples. They’re pretty sweet & mild.

Do you happen to work at a mid-sized paper company?

I had a surly paternal grandmother who seemed to revel in making the lives of children miserable.

When I was about four years old, I asked for a snack, and she gave me a raw onion.

I sat at the kitchen table and ate the entire fucking thing like it was the sweetest piece of fruit known to history, staring her in the eye the whole time.

If I had been just a little bit older and thought of it, I would've asked her for another one.

She died when I was seven. My reaction to this, as she lived in Washington State, was, "Does that mean we get to see Mount Saint Helens?" as the volcano had gone off just a couple weeks prior.

I once knew a guy who peeled and ate a full garlic like one would do with an orange or mandarin, while walking and talking casually.

There are actually onions that you can do that with. I think the soil where those are grown is low on sulfer or something so the onion cant make the chemical responsible for making your eyes water.

Sweet onions were consider a desert by the Romans and they would eat them like we do apples.

Was he Eastern European?