Stupidly, up until tonight, I believed that caramelized onions were actually cooked in caramel, or something sweet and candy-like similar to that. (keep in mind, I am soon to be 21!) I always thought it sounded so gross, and that the different flavors would not mix at all, wondering why on earth anyone would want to eat something like that. It just didn't sound right to me.
Mom said she was going to make herself some caramelized onions, and something else. It was then that I finally decided to ask, and found out that they are actually onions that are fried very slowly, until they are nearly transparent.
DUHH!!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that onions came from tangerines.Anon
- When I was a kid I loved to eat onion rings, until I realized that they were made with onions.— Beth Pärssinen
- To get me to eat liver and onions, my parents used to tell me it was brown chicken. And I loved it.— Mallory
- I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.Anon
- 'I've got candy in my ears tonight, baby'.
~Canned Heat, Jimiroquai.— Nin - I used to believe that crayons were candy and the colors were flavors. We went through a lot of crayonsAnon