> > > > Oh, that guy? You know, I'm really not sure.... there are actually three of them (and they're always the badguys!) but they kinda get skinnier as they go and they have sprouty things at the top. You know what? I bet they're Spring Onions.... hmm.... checking the website... it doesn't say. Well, that's my guess!
> > > >
> > > > Ki"so yeah..."ki
> > >
>
> He can't be (or probably isn't) a Spring Onion, because Spring Onions go well with "Spring Chickens" and by association, you KNOW just how bright and spritely a Spring Chicken is. Right? So, even though I can't recall the exact details for what the Forgive-O-Matic sales dude looks like, I'll reckon he's a Leek. (Get it? A slow leek, or a fast-talking running leek, etc.? Uh, nevermind.)
>
>
> > > I was thinking maybe he's a scallion. Maybe that's the same thing as a spring onion, I dunno.
> > >
> > > Gri"so yeah..."shny
> >
>
> AUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Not you... too!
>
> All the cookbooks I have keep using various names to describe Green Onions. Sometimes it's given a different name in different chapters of the same cookbook. To this day, I haven't made up my mind for what to call them. Whenever my Dave is using a recipe that calls for...uh... a chopped/minced version of whatever this item is properly called [i.e., UPC Produce Code item # 4068], we have to wonder whether the author intended a vegetable that looked like Leeks or Chives instead.
>
> Thus, in order to prevent impending mass culinary chaos and the Death of Civilization As We Know It, please be sure to answer this very, VERY important $64,000 poll question:
>
> "In your regional part of the world, what do you call a young onion plant harvested before its root bulb is developed?"
>
> a. Green onion
> b. Spring onion
> c. Scallions
> d. Shallots
> e. Eschalotte
>
>
> > If they are the badguys, scallions would be good. "Scallion" sounds like an Elizabethan insult, if you ignore what it actually *is*.
> >
> > Brunnen-"have at thee, vile scallion! Yeah, that sounds about right"G
>
> Rapscallion and Scalawags. Sure thing, they'd make terrific Evil Vegetables of Doom. :-)

They're called green onions here in Alberta. :-)