> > > > > > 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:
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> > > > > > "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?
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
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> *Choking with laughter* Puck, do you do that on purpose, or what? That's the first time I've ever heard a guy describe himself as "smaller, but SWEETER" whilst simultaneously comparing himself to, well, a kind of *onion*. Hey, onions are just the opposite -- they're what make the girls *cry* (or so the song claims!)
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> > > Puck - "Green onions here in Alberta" sounds an awfully long name for a vegetable.
> >
> > You might have to look this one up. Does anybody know what a "ramp" is? Hint: I have *not* changed the subject.
> > Howard
>
> Is 'ramp' a type of garlicky onion? Or, exactly as the redoubtable Puck says, is it another member of the onion family (like garlic).
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> Wolf "Actually I don't know. What is it?" spirit

You get an A+ on that one. They grow wild in the Great Smokey Mountains. They even have a ramp festival at Cosby, Tennessee every spring. I've never been.
Howard