> > > 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
>
> > They're called green onions here in Alberta. :-)
>
> So you and Ellmyruh near the West Coast call them "Green Onions"... Kiki in D.C. and my Mother call them "Spring Onions"... and Grishny in Ohio and Brunnen-G in NZ say they're "Scallions." Maybe there's the beginnings of a distinct linguistic distribution here. Who else wants to contribute to the mapping?
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> Wolf "Have yet to figure out which part of the world calls them 'Shallots'" spirit

In NZ we call them Spring Onions (because if you drop them they bounce). I understand that Shallots are not onions, as such, but are a member of the onion family (like garlic) and that you eat the bulb. They are smaller and sweeter than onions - not unlike myself really.

Puck - "Green onions here in Alberta" sounds an awfully long name for a vegetable.