Pickled Onions

[kopend]

are pickled onion supposed to be eaten with a Sunday roast

its just that i had some with my Christmas dinner

and the people i was with frowned upon it

i have alway had pickled onions with mine

they also do jars pickled onions with pickled cauliflower etc

what meal / food are they supposed to be eaten with ??

[bhg481]

Who cares what's supposed to e eaten with what? If you like it, eat it.

[retrocop]

True what bhg says. It is not rude or offensive so do it if you like it.
I personally would use pickled onions with cold meals though. salads, cold meats,ploughmens although I always have hot bubble and squak with pickled onions et al.

[Arksided]

I agree.. eat them with what you like, myself with fish 'n' chips.

Some people like baked beans... I can't fathom that one...? I shop at tesco so still horses for courses.'

[retrocop]

Just think what a lot of people have with hot traditional fish and chips. A pickled onion/wally or egg !!

[-SharonA-]

I am afraid I am one of the frowners! But really it is whatever rocks your boat.

I would have thought that pickled onions were a side accompaniment to sandwiches, salads and other cold snacks.

[pusskin]

When my son and partner cook a roast dinner, they always chuck a few onions in the roasting dish as he absolutely loves them.

[EDDIE51]

^^ is that ordinary onions or pickled ones. Personally I lover roast/ fried onions but hate anything pickled especially onions. We still have jars of pickled onions in the cupboard from 5 years ago, but every Christmas my OH buys more to add to the collection.

[pusskin]

Only plain peeled onions Eddie, and they smell delish while their roasting!
I only like fried onions or onions in a stew. Definately don't eat pickled onions.

[EDDIE51]

Yes agree with that, very few things smell better than roasting onions.
My wife gets her pickled onion habit from her Dad who thought nothing of sitting and eating an entire jar of them at a time.
PS, onions ( un pickled) are great sliced up in a ' toad in a hole' as well !

[woofgang]

why were people frowning at what you chose to eat?

[pusskin]

Eddie, you are now making me drawl in silava! Haha. Yes, good with yorkies too...agree

[Mosaic]

My MIL once had a total conniption when FIL asked for tomato ketchup with his full english. It was in a pub where we'd stayed a night, and I think she felt cowed by its grandeur. It wasn't grand, she was very insecure, and desperate not to be thought 'common'.
Turn this kind of feeling the other way, and you get strange behaviour from people who believe they know how 'not to be common'.
Sounds like you were eating with some such, Kopend. It says more about them than they think!

[gingejbee]

I could eat pickled anything with most dishes...but wouldn't with a roast dinner.

[baza]

Whatever you want to eat with pickled onions is up to you, but remember white wine with white meat and red with red meat, also use the cutlery from the outside working inwards with the different courses. Noone will frown then.