When I was a kid,
my mom taught me
a simple trick,
so, I wouldn’t cry
when I
sliced an onion
***
Stop giving them names and personalities.
***
Just as I
had done
with my
very good friend,
Mr.
Paul Onion.
***
Then, she taught
me a simple trick,
so, I wouldn’t cry
when I ate
cantaloupe slices
***
and, lo,
it was the same trick!
t r e f o l o g y 
Well I’ll be….
I saw someone enclose a see-through saucepan lid in a hoodie as protection when cutting onions…….well I’ll be again
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Well, then, I’ll be, too. Thanks, D
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How nice of your mom.
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Mom has her moments. Thanks, Sadje
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🥰👌🏼
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One reason I buy pre-sliced onions.
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I grew up on a farm near the kill floor of an onion plant, Pam, and it was not pretty. All the screaming, the endless screaming, and then the silence … that terrible, awful silence. Thanks for the comment, Pam.
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Watching the new Daniel Craig film The Glass Onion is probably not on your to see list with so much childhood trauma to reconcile. Onion rings, I can imagine are problematic when visiting Red Robin.
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(1) I have a painful bony bump at the base of my big toe. I named it Paul Bunion.
(2) Old joke: What did the melon say when asked to run away and get married? “I’m sorry, but I cantelope.”
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Assuming the other was a honeydew then the cantaloupe made the right decision as both are from the same melon family. And that is plum wrong; a plum, by the way, is also from the melon family, but a distant relative, thus, is free to marry who he pleases. Thanks, David.
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Thanks, David
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Hilarious! Oscar Onion and Callum Carrot are giving me the evil eye stare as I read this post.
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Every knows or has known, an onion. Thanks, MM
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Farm mothers weaning their offspring off first-name relationships with the reproductive organs of produce, may lead to the heartbreak of fructophobia. There was a documentary exposing this issue, which is the main cause of the compulsion for some grownups to cry when slicing onions, but the critics threw rotten tomatoes at it.
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You continue to amaze me, tref. :)
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I had a pet chicken once and named it Easter. It was an Easter chick and turned out to be a rooster that annoyed the neighbors. So we took it to my grandparents’ farm where my grandma cooked it for Sunday dinner. I was devastated when I found out later. Poor chick. Poor onion.
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A timely reminder to get and anthropomorphism booster shot.
Thanks tref.
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Speak of the devil. Do you know what? That is exactly what Paul Onion said. Thanks, B
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I’ve always found onions quite chatty, but with a tendency towards depression.
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Luckily onions and cantaloupes aren’t good together. I can’t imagine the complete hysteria that would ensue with both at once.
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Yeh, I don’t think they hung out.
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Lesson learned penny earned I’d say.
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I still have that penny, too. Thanks, Janny
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Proud to say I have never cried when eating a cantaloupe.
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Discussions about onions always remind me of Shrek when he says, “Ogres are like onions.” That’s why I name all my onions Shrek.
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Haha I am afraid I do not know the Shrek films as well as maybe I should. Once, on a teaching assignment, I was asked to show one of the Shrek films to the class and was surprised to find that my old college roommate was the voice of Rumpelstiltskin! Thanks, SS
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Ha! No way!! That’s impressive.
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Onions make me laugh until I cry.
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Too raw for my tastes. Thanks, G
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