Remember helping mom in the kitchen when you were a kid?

 

 

I remember learning tricks to keep my eyes from watering (crying) while peeling onions.  Mom said holding the onion underwater while peeling would help, and holding a wooden toothpick between my teeth while I was cutting, that would help too.

 

Funny thing though.  I’ve peeled, sliced, and diced a lot of onions over the years, and I totally forgot about how to keep from crying.  So I have a question.  In the last few decades, has anyone cried while peeling onions?  Is that still a thing?

 

(Well, maybe I’ve cried lately after dicing a jalapeno then rubbing my eye.)