What do you call these?

[Innocent Bystander]

Smaller than leeks. Often seen chopped. Used to make Champ.

What name do you know them by?


(No special reason. I'm just idly curious.)

[mutepointe]

green onions.

[djm]

Them's <A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=ar-Z_l907DY">green onions</A>, says Booker T.

djm

[BigDavy]

Cybies

[gonzo914]

Green onions

From wiki -- Scallions

Other names and varieties

Scallions are also sometimes known as green onions in the United States and Canada. Confusingly, the term green onion can also be used for immature specimens of the ordinary onion (Allium cepa). In Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries, scallions are called spring onions. In Wales, they may also be referred to as gibbons. In parts of Australia they are known as either eschallots, shallots, or spring onions depending on the region. In parts of Scotland, they may be referred to as cibies or syboes. However, in Ireland the term scallions is used.

The responses this far bear this out.

[Redwolf]

I call them scallions, but when I was growing up in Washington State, we called them "green onions," and in North Carolina they're called "spring onions."

Redwolf

[Cynth]

I've always called them green onions. I guess because all these terms are common names it has gotten completely confusing. I never knew what scallions really were and here that is the only thing we have in the grocery store. I thought shallots were something like the picture below although I've never seen them in a store. I think here they are considered quite fancy. Anyway, I guess just to be clear we should ask the produce manager where the Allium fistulosum are.

Here is some info with pictures ----it is from Finland perhaps not a big help in discussing the use of common terms in English, I don't know----but it does give the scientfic names. I realize the point of the thread is what people in different areas commonly call the things in IB's photo, so I'm posting this not to say anyone is incorrect but just as an interesting bit---maybe.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~marian1/gourmet/i_onion.htm

Shallot
(Allium var. ascalonicum)

"In picture above: various shallot types — regular, round French shallots (left) and an elongated banana shallot (right).

Shallot onions are small in size, each bulb usually consisting of two to three cloves.

The flavour of shallot is regarded as very distinguished and aromatic compared with other onions, and it is widely used in European cooking, particularly in France."


Green onion
(Allium cepa)

"Green onion — also called spring onion — is a type of thickly planted yellow onion harvested early in the spring, while it is still immature. It resembles the scallion (see right) but it usually has much thicker leaves and a larger, more pronounced bulb.

The green leafy part of the green onion is the main part to be used in cooking. The sharp-sweet, aromatic flavour of the leaves is especially appreciated in Russian cooking, where they are used raw in various salads or as delicious filling in pies. The white part is used like ordinary onion. Green onion can be replaced with scallion."


Scallion
(Allium fistulosum)


Scallion produces a long cylindrical plant with long green leaves. The bulb is less pronounced than that of green onion (see left).

Both the white and green part of scallion may be used the same way as green onion in cooking.

[peeplj]

Around here we call those green onions.

--James

[gallant_murray]

Around here we call those green onions.

--James

As do we.

[Wanderer]

Green onion...though when I worked at taco bell, about 1/2 of the population of my hick town called them "chives"..as in "I don't want no chives on my taco salad!"

I was tempted to say "ok!" and put the green onions anyway, since, as we all know, they aren't the same thing. Though I suppose I should cut them some slack...wikipedia does say that shallots and chives are commonly confused. At the time though, I just felt all culinary superior to those rednecks

[missy]

green onions or bunching onions

[djm]

Shallots are used almost exclusively around here by Chinese restaurants. I never see them in stores, though. Chives grow like a weed throughout my flower beds, which is great because nothing I plant intentionally does any good, and chives bloom beautifully from May right into July.

djm

[Jack]

I call them Sheila.

I've heard them called green onions and allium before.

[Innocent Bystander]

Thank you for the replies. I've heard green onions mentioned in American Films, but never understood that they were what I was brought up to call scallions. Big Davy, Thanks for correcting my spelling. The spelling I have was taken from a greengrocers sign, so almost guaranteed to be wrong (even if it was in Marchmont).

Cynth, I am with you all the way on the Shallot business.


I was just thinking of the poem, earlier today, and imagining Launcelot saying

"The lady hath a pretty face. God in his mercy send her grace,
The lady of Shallot.

(long pause)

Sniff. Can you smell onions?"

[peteinmn]

http://www.thomas-distributing.com/midi/greenonions.mid