Onions

Why would a cut onion or garlic "attract" more bacteria than anything else with a cut wet surface? Is the fridge is swarming with onion-seeking bacteria frantically rushing round looking for a fix? Covered and used as soon as possible it will be fine. You wouldn't keep it i nthe fridge uncovered anyway, transferring the smell to the butter (which should also be covered . . . .)

How on earth did our parents and grandparents survive to produce us with all these health hazards that keep appearing from nowhere.

Another internet scare!

www.snopes.com/food/tainted/cutonions.asp

Snopes is your friend.

I keep half an onion but its usually in a small plastic pot.. sounds like rubbish to me.

I have read that onions exposed to the air will attract bacteria/germs. We keep halves in the fridge with cling film on and have had no ill effects.

Well, you have to wrap it in cling film anyway. Or the whole fridge contents would pong. It's rubbish. (And I would have thought nothing could live on garlic!)

Wind up I would say! Although I may be corrected on that. I never throw half an onion away.