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>Is eating onions with steak something only low class people did?
Not at all. However, onions were and still are a very cheap food item.
You aren't impressing anyone by eating onions.

Raw onion eating in Europe has long been seen as a peasant unsophisticated practice.

"In many societies, including in seventeenth-century England, eating onions raw came to be thought of as a lower-class taste associated with peasants. Peasants smelled oniony. Jean Baptiste Bruyerin, a sixteenth-century doctor from Lyon, wrote that onions “are eaten raw by rather refined people, the more polished nonetheless prefer them cooked more, first of all because they are healthier that way and also because they do not give off such a strong odor.” John Evelyn, in his 1699 Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (salads), allowed that raw onions were “more proper for our Northern Rustics.” The sixteenth-century English derided the Scots for smelling of raw onions: “They nauseate the very aire with their tainted breath, so perfumed with onions, that to an Englishman it is almost infectious,” reported an English traveler in Scotland."

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/11/09/core-of-an-onion-mark-kurlansky

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Is eating onions with steak something only low class people did? I was watching Hyppolit the Butler and it was a plot point that the low class…