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.
^^ 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.
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.
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 !
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!
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.