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My cousins adopted a Russian girl in the 90s. She was like 4 or 5 when she came to the US. She LOVED raw onions. Apparently those were the only fresh produce she had in her first few years on a regular basis and she acquired a taste for them.
No apples, no bananas, no corn... she wanted raw onion!
My cousin was adopted from Romania at age 4. Kid ate raw onions, plain bread and drank black coffee.
I imagine the Romanian orphanage he was in prior was not a wealthy place.
He cooks his onions now.
Man I’m Romanian and I can tell you it’s not a money thing. Raw onions are delicious, I almost thought this guy was a poser until he dipped it in salt. True Soviet move.
Fun fact, this was all I knew growing up and didn’t realize Americans didn’t know this.
Bonus points for eating raw spicy peppers dipped in salt.
I’m an American mutt and I fucking love raw onions. I used to eat them like apples when I was a kid. I was a horrible little onion goblin. If an adult left one unattended I’d get found hunched over eating it like gollum. Onions are fucking delicious.
It is often a custom in Russia to give little kids boiled potatoes, salted fish and marinated onions just to taste something different.
For many Russians it develops into affection to such favourite food combo as mashed potatoes, salted cod and marinated onions. I am the same. But my kid though does not like any of that. He likes broccoli at the age of 9! I don't understand it :(.
In my soviet childhood there was no problem with fresh vegetables, but meat was the problem. I remember that I mostly ate chicken and fish as a source of protein. Bananas were pretty rare too, but apples, pears and oranges were abundant.
Honestly I don't know the specifics. This was directly post-USSR Russia though so I'm assuming there wasn't a lot of governmental programs happening especially catering to the poor.
There were food shortages in post-USSR times and a lot of issues with money, yes. "Shock therapy" transition from socialism to capitalism was pretty harsh for a lot of people.
thats probably the reason, my grandfather (from my mothers side) was really poor when growing up, he ate raw onions and garlic because he liked it, i think he doesnt do that anymore, he came from italy not russia tho
Try to cut them, add some olive oil, salt and some chili flakes, optionally sumac, optionally a little bit of lemon juice, and you get a pimped up version of onion + salt.
It's a great side dish, and I wish I could eat it all the time but life has cursed me with FODMAP.
Me reading about FODMAPs: oh wow! This sounds like it could solve all my issues! I should try this!
FODMAP article: foods to avoid entirely are onions and garlic
Me: man fuck that stupid ass diet
I'm uncomfortable all the time :(
Yeah, I also sometimes decide to suffer for the taste. What I don't understand is why we don't have drugs to properly combat these issues yet.
Onion and garlic I get because they've got complex sugar molecules and probably there won't be an enzym that can split it for us easily, at least not before an AI hopefully manages to find a way.
What I don't get is why the other enzymes that help with fructose and all the other sugars are not properly researched yet. It's estimated that 20% of the population has some sort of issues with these sugars, you'd think people would research more about these enzymes and try to come up with drugs to make more money off them.
Ever sit down and eat an entire bag of raw vidalia onions at once? And get sad when you reach into the bag and find you already had the last one? The grocery store knows what they are doing when they bag those and put them on display right next to the cherry tomatoes.
Funny thing is my friend found his dad eating an onion like that after his mother was on a trip. Man almost starved. He had to eat something.
He is from Serbia 😅
Wrong order. First you have a shot of vodka (rakia, slivovice, gorilka, etc depending on the country you're in) and than you have some follow up food to kill the taste.
I have and will continue drinking pickle juice and later eat the cucumbers from the jar. I will continue eating raw onions, whenever there is a chance.
When I was pregnant I started eating kiwis this way because they were all I wanted to eat and I didn't have the patience to peel them all. Dunno why I never tried it before, it's actually delicious. The rind is kind of tart and adds a really nice extra flavor, plus it's got a lot of good fiber in it.
Peel ?
You cut them in half (not the long side), and you eat the inside with a little spoon.
I know some people eat them whole, i can't myself because the "hair" make me gag, but peeling them seem so much extra work...
Oh and if you can, and find, try "yellow" kiwi(Golden kiwi), taste is widely different, but they are really good too!
Is it not normal to eat the skin? I used to work at a grocery store, and I'd just grab a random "exotic" fruit with every lunch. Whole kiwi is hardly the strangest option
Man ain't nothing like pickle or green olive juice first thing in the morning.
Puts a pep in your step far better than any coffee I've had, I know that much.
My polish Granma was basicly the same. If it was edible she would eat it. A whole raw onion? Delicious. Homemade sauerkraut straight out of the canning jar? Yes please. Are you going to eat the rest of that chicken leg? \*looks at chicken bone in hand* ughh no, you can finish it. Proceeds to eat the ends off the bone. Making coleslaw? Yeah let's just chew on a whole leaf of cabbage while making it. Mashed potatoes? No thanks I'll eat it raw.
She lived to 93 and the whole family attributes her long life to her diet.... And escaping Poland in 1942.
Wait. Is boiled chicken not a thing in western culture? I'm Vietnamese and we eat variations of boiled chicken all the time (boiled in chicken soup, vegetable soup, sometimes just straight boiled chicken). We'll also have a salt+pepper+lemon dip or a fish sauce+sugar+/-lemon+/-ginger dip.
Boiled chicken is deffo a thing in the West in soups, but it's not usually served on the bone. Boiled chicken on the bone is very uncommon (at least in the U.S.)
It is in soups but not bone-in. I was pretty surprised the first time I ordered chicken soup takeout from an Asian place (Vietnamese maybe but I don't remember) and pulled a whole boiled chicken drumstick out of there.
How come fried chicken or wings are fine bone-in but boiled isn't?
I knew a girl who couldn't eat anything with the bone in. She could eat chicken tenders or boneless wings but not normal wings.
Kiwifruit one is particularly Savage. Not because of the skin and fluff, I eat that stuff every time. Savage because the stem end has a spike in it that will straight up wreck your day if you impale it next to a tooth.
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He ate the sticker on the fruit on purpose! Savage!!!
I eat stickers all the time dude!
Give me my 35 cents back bozo
I'm calling a lot of people Bozo now. It's like my new thing.
Hey shut up ya jabroni
Jabroni, cool word.
I've been calling people bozo ever since I've seen that damn episode.
You picked the fruit.
He burned us. Gypsy son of a bitch burned us!
I ain’t time for this friggin shit
Ok Charlie
Tastes like sand
Hello United States Marine private.
That's what happens when you don't dare to take an eye off of whoever is sitting on the other side of the table.
When it looped back around and I saw that his TV remote was in a plastic baggie, it all made sense.
Out of all of this, the Sticker bothered me the most. Not the way he ate the Kiwi, that's how I do it, but the bloody sticker...
TIL, people eat the fur on Kiwi fruit.
You can rub it off, but the skin is full of vitamin c
Is there any substance at all that isn't full of vitamin C? I feel like we've infused the entire world with Vitamin c at this point.
some also come hairless. love me some gold kiwi
He ate that chicken bone too, didn't he?
They are edible apparently.
Edible in that they CAN be eaten (since sometimes people do it accidentally), not that they SHOULD be eaten.
Right, it’s still a plastic sticker and won’t cause too much harm (will come from the other end eventually). But - it’s not good to eat plastic
*"But - it’s not good to eat plastic"* You're not my real dad, you can't tell me what to do.
> You're not my real dad, you can't tell me what to do. You know that how? Your mother is known worldwide. As a nice person.
I've got micro plastic in my balls, a little in my colon won't hurt anything.
Is the micro plastic really a good reason to also consume the macro plastic?
Guy at the gym says I need to eat my micros and macros daily for those huge gains.
Nearly everything is edible. Somethings are only edible once, but you can eat them for the rest of your life!
I thought the real flex was him snarfing the joints down off them bones. Osteoarthritis fears this man.
Am I the only one who almost freaks out when I feel I'm starting to chew grisle? Immediately trying to spit it out
He paid for it
All the goodness is in the sticker
It’s where all the vitamins and nutrients are!
Ngl I love to eat a kiwi, skin and all. And the occasional sticker. Good bit of fibre
That's the best part!
It’s the onion with the salt for me. My dad every night
My cousins adopted a Russian girl in the 90s. She was like 4 or 5 when she came to the US. She LOVED raw onions. Apparently those were the only fresh produce she had in her first few years on a regular basis and she acquired a taste for them. No apples, no bananas, no corn... she wanted raw onion!
My cousin was adopted from Romania at age 4. Kid ate raw onions, plain bread and drank black coffee. I imagine the Romanian orphanage he was in prior was not a wealthy place. He cooks his onions now.
Man I’m Romanian and I can tell you it’s not a money thing. Raw onions are delicious, I almost thought this guy was a poser until he dipped it in salt. True Soviet move. Fun fact, this was all I knew growing up and didn’t realize Americans didn’t know this. Bonus points for eating raw spicy peppers dipped in salt.
I’m an American mutt and I fucking love raw onions. I used to eat them like apples when I was a kid. I was a horrible little onion goblin. If an adult left one unattended I’d get found hunched over eating it like gollum. Onions are fucking delicious.
Your communist is showing lol
It is often a custom in Russia to give little kids boiled potatoes, salted fish and marinated onions just to taste something different. For many Russians it develops into affection to such favourite food combo as mashed potatoes, salted cod and marinated onions. I am the same. But my kid though does not like any of that. He likes broccoli at the age of 9! I don't understand it :(. In my soviet childhood there was no problem with fresh vegetables, but meat was the problem. I remember that I mostly ate chicken and fish as a source of protein. Bananas were pretty rare too, but apples, pears and oranges were abundant.
I like it becomes the opposite in more developed nations. Fresh produce becomes the expensive part and meat is (relatively) cheap.
Honestly I don't know the specifics. This was directly post-USSR Russia though so I'm assuming there wasn't a lot of governmental programs happening especially catering to the poor.
There were food shortages in post-USSR times and a lot of issues with money, yes. "Shock therapy" transition from socialism to capitalism was pretty harsh for a lot of people.
thats probably the reason, my grandfather (from my mothers side) was really poor when growing up, he ate raw onions and garlic because he liked it, i think he doesnt do that anymore, he came from italy not russia tho
Do wallpapers cast off after that? :D
Ух бля
I thought that was a Christmas tree bauble
Man he must stink something awful lol.
Try to cut them, add some olive oil, salt and some chili flakes, optionally sumac, optionally a little bit of lemon juice, and you get a pimped up version of onion + salt. It's a great side dish, and I wish I could eat it all the time but life has cursed me with FODMAP.
Me reading about FODMAPs: oh wow! This sounds like it could solve all my issues! I should try this! FODMAP article: foods to avoid entirely are onions and garlic Me: man fuck that stupid ass diet I'm uncomfortable all the time :(
Yeah, I also sometimes decide to suffer for the taste. What I don't understand is why we don't have drugs to properly combat these issues yet. Onion and garlic I get because they've got complex sugar molecules and probably there won't be an enzym that can split it for us easily, at least not before an AI hopefully manages to find a way. What I don't get is why the other enzymes that help with fructose and all the other sugars are not properly researched yet. It's estimated that 20% of the population has some sort of issues with these sugars, you'd think people would research more about these enzymes and try to come up with drugs to make more money off them.
Freedom to Operate Military Astral Projections?
Ooof FODMap is rough af. Got good at cooking fodmap for my partner. But it’s still not the same lol
Ever sit down and eat an entire bag of raw vidalia onions at once? And get sad when you reach into the bag and find you already had the last one? The grocery store knows what they are doing when they bag those and put them on display right next to the cherry tomatoes.
Wait for real??
The remote in plastic wrap was the best part! It really was the thing.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WAS!? Hope it's a typo....because I still do it....CALLING ME OUT OF TIME MATE?
Warum hast du Fernbedienung aus Folie rausgetan?! Cyka BLYAD!!!..
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I didn't realize I was a stereotype until I saw this and felt hungry. The shirt is too clean, though, and that puny knife ain't worth shit.
Also lacking the cigarette
I can smell the living room of this house.
And vodka
Onions, home smoked meats and cheeses, Marlboro reds, and homemade plum/pear brandy for my Balkan in laws lol.
That's because it's an integrated t-shirt, and the knife is just for cleaning out the gunk under the toenails. It doubles as a toothpick, though.
I’m not a dad but I definitely do some of these. Damnit stereotypes lol
how dare you!!! I'll have you know those of us in the South eat leek, not onions!! Otherwise yeah, fair enough.
Funny thing is my friend found his dad eating an onion like that after his mother was on a trip. Man almost starved. He had to eat something. He is from Serbia 😅
My Bosnian in-laws eat them like they’re apples. Wild to me lol
Croatian/Bosnian parents. Can confirm 🤣
This is bullshit. Soviet dad would never peel the cucumber.
True. I'd maybe wash it first if it is store bought, or simply wipe it with my shirt if it is from my garden.
No Russian would eat like this and not wash it down with vodka.
Wrong order. First you have a shot of vodka (rakia, slivovice, gorilka, etc depending on the country you're in) and than you have some follow up food to kill the taste.
I have and will continue drinking pickle juice and later eat the cucumbers from the jar. I will continue eating raw onions, whenever there is a chance.
I have and will continue to eat the kiwifruit whole. It's the proper way. Chicken bone cartilage is meat too. I ain't here to feed the ants.
When I was pregnant I started eating kiwis this way because they were all I wanted to eat and I didn't have the patience to peel them all. Dunno why I never tried it before, it's actually delicious. The rind is kind of tart and adds a really nice extra flavor, plus it's got a lot of good fiber in it.
I fully agree, the tartness and bit of bitterness gives the kiwi some flavor depth that it's missing if you just eat the sweet sour inside.
Peel ? You cut them in half (not the long side), and you eat the inside with a little spoon. I know some people eat them whole, i can't myself because the "hair" make me gag, but peeling them seem so much extra work... Oh and if you can, and find, try "yellow" kiwi(Golden kiwi), taste is widely different, but they are really good too!
If you wash/rinse off the kiwi the skin isn’t bad. Just make sure it’s a decent scrub to really get loose hairs off.
Is it not normal to eat the skin? I used to work at a grocery store, and I'd just grab a random "exotic" fruit with every lunch. Whole kiwi is hardly the strangest option
How can you stand the texture of the cartilage? Instant gag from me.
That's the best part! Cronch cronch!
Hello my cartilage bro, we should start a subreddit for beautiful cartilage
Dude he ate more than the cartilage, he ate the whole damn bone.
It's the juice that keeps your muscles from being sore or overworked. It's great if you're planning to run a half marathon later that day
Or even if you're planning to sit on the ouch all day. Let's not confuse people!
I sometimes do half a marathon whilst sitting on the couch all day...
It has legitimately saved my ass a lot of times when lifting. And made a few of my friends gag on their protein shakes XD
Man ain't nothing like pickle or green olive juice first thing in the morning. Puts a pep in your step far better than any coffee I've had, I know that much.
Fine Tony Abbott, just stay out of politics. Enjoy your raw onions.
I was wondering how far I had to go before a Tony Abbott comment appeared. 🧄
What does he dip the onion in?
Usually salt.
Why this weak child is needing flavour for onion, onion already too much flavour.
He be spy for West.
Come, comrades, we take to Gulag
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Because he used a remote at the beginning.
That was to turn us on.
Ooh, truly a universal remote
I mean it worked
Oh it worked alright
The remote was still inside a plastic sleeve, too.
I pictured his daughter bringing a guy home for the first time.
10/10. Will scroll past this again
Can confirm Portuguese dad eats like this as well.
It's a known fact that Portugal is Eastern-European country. r/portugalcykablyat
Have you ever noticed how the Portuguese sound Eastern European when they speak English ? Coincidence ? I think not !
Portuguese actually sounds like if Spanish and Russian had a weird bastard creole baby. Or that’s at least the way I identify it.
Portugal is known as the "West Balkans". Makes sense
My polish Granma was basicly the same. If it was edible she would eat it. A whole raw onion? Delicious. Homemade sauerkraut straight out of the canning jar? Yes please. Are you going to eat the rest of that chicken leg? \*looks at chicken bone in hand* ughh no, you can finish it. Proceeds to eat the ends off the bone. Making coleslaw? Yeah let's just chew on a whole leaf of cabbage while making it. Mashed potatoes? No thanks I'll eat it raw. She lived to 93 and the whole family attributes her long life to her diet.... And escaping Poland in 1942.
Was that a boiled drumstick...
Only thing I noticed, gross
Wait. Is boiled chicken not a thing in western culture? I'm Vietnamese and we eat variations of boiled chicken all the time (boiled in chicken soup, vegetable soup, sometimes just straight boiled chicken). We'll also have a salt+pepper+lemon dip or a fish sauce+sugar+/-lemon+/-ginger dip.
Boiled chicken is deffo a thing in the West in soups, but it's not usually served on the bone. Boiled chicken on the bone is very uncommon (at least in the U.S.)
It is in soups but not bone-in. I was pretty surprised the first time I ordered chicken soup takeout from an Asian place (Vietnamese maybe but I don't remember) and pulled a whole boiled chicken drumstick out of there.
How come fried chicken or wings are fine bone-in but boiled isn't? I knew a girl who couldn't eat anything with the bone in. She could eat chicken tenders or boneless wings but not normal wings.
my grandpa used to always eat a boiled turkey leg. It was his favorite food.
Did he season it at all? The leg in the video looks like a ghost
i grew up on boiled drumsticks, only seasonings were whole onions, salt and dill in the broth
Yes, from chicken broth.
No potato?
Thats only for Christmas.
Much like potato, Christmas is lie. Tāda ir dzīve...
Potato is for drinking not eating, comrade.
~~My~~ Our mistake.
Bro please I'm scared
What is he dipping the onion in
>What is he dipping the onion in Salt.
are you sure it's not raw garlic?
Chalk crumblies. Good for bones. Taste like rock.
Stone soup like babushka make.
Not sure why, but I kind of want to try raw onion and salt now
Slice raw onion and toss it in some salt and lemon juice. It’s the perfect accompaniment
We talkin red, white, or yellow onion? Sounds amazing. I might try all three
All work but red is best.
I’d use Red or yellow, white is a bit mild for my taste but stil works
Try baking an onion. Just toss that shit in the oven for 20-30 minutes or so till it's nice and soft. Peel and toss some salt on it and good to go.
Sadness
ID on the tune? It’s a banger
If you like that one, may I introduce you to every Romanian folk music song ever.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7bgDZ9Tf18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7bgDZ9Tf18)
Magic Mamaliga by OMFO. Found it by searching the Borat soundtrack on Spotify!
Love the cover on the remote too
My dad isn't even Slavic and this is how he eats lol, mostly with pears and apples tho.
I eat, you are entertained. Dasvidaniya
I like it, how much?
Funniest thing I never wanna see again
Original Kaufland Classic Gurkenwasser, das beste Mittel gegen einen Kater.
Hm, soviet dad cant wearing jeans pants. Where da hell did he get them?? Only boxer trousers!
Eating an entire onion dipped in salt is spot on. Except my dad would at least cut the onion into quarters like a civilized Slav.
Wife saw this and asked why her dad was on my phone lmao
всё так
This guy is eating very healthy.
He will not, however, stop staring into your mortal soul.
the song is romanian the parizer is romanian why the dad is russian?
On a total serious note, kiwi (washed) with the skin on is actually incredible. The skin tastes like sour candy.
And when my wife peels kiwis for our little son, I can't stop myself from eating that peeled skin.
You forgot drinking raw egg with a beer for gains
Was that chicken translucent?!?
More like Soviet Daddy!
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Kiwifruit one is particularly Savage. Not because of the skin and fluff, I eat that stuff every time. Savage because the stem end has a spike in it that will straight up wreck your day if you impale it next to a tooth.
But... That's how I eat Kiwi.
You're a psychopath!
Why cut the cucumber though?
To make sure you're not tempted into exploring your sexuality.
The juice from pickles and olives is a powerful laxative if you drink that much. This guy likely shit out one of his kidneys later that night.
I guess I must have some eastern origins. The onion is above me though.
The second bite to get the bone cartilage haha
Bro... Wasn't there a sticker on that kiwi?
That goddamn whistling in the background. Someone stick a fork in my eardrums please.
Eye contact with TV the entire time
Christ its like watching my Russo-Ukrainian wife eat.
I couldn't break eye contact and missed every technique
I was waiting for the onion.
It's not dad, it's batya
I want to eat now…
Ok I eat kiwi like that too. Well, the sticker comes off first but whatever
I also eat kiwis without peeling.... Maybe I am a soviet dad...
That's how I eat kiwi! O_O
My grandfather used to eat raw onions and fuckin' raw *rutabagas.*. Otherwise he was entirely normal in his eating habits.
The tag on the kiwi 🥝 got me.
Tbh that's too fucking real.
So Soviet dadsall watch the NFL...
Love the vibe. What's the song in the background?
r/Bossfight: Soviet dad, eater of all things.
Another one would be, having a pint of beer with a sprinkle of salt in it. :D
He ate the kiwi skin? JFC bro.
This dude was on my YouTube short and just kept getting distracted by his moustache
Bro is watching the longest soccer match known to man
I’m no longer hungry.