What do you call these?

peteinmn · Post by **peteinmn** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:36 pm

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

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:37 pm

I believe Cynth has solved the riddle.

I love Cranberry's avatar of the week. I should get that on a T-shirt for my oldest daughter except change "bitchy" for "moody".

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:54 pm

mutepointe wrote:green onions.

Ayup. That or scallions.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:54 pm

Wanderer wrote: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

i don't know what chives are in real life but in the world i live in, they are the green tops of green onions that have been cut with scissors into circles. why the white part of green onions is green onions is beyond me.

were they afraid that the chives were going to make them sophisticated?

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:13 pm

mutepoint wrote:i don't know what chives are in real life

The are a flowering plant. The leaves are actually long thin tubes, about 1/8" diameter, with pointed ends. They grow to 12-18" high. Usually they are harvested off the living plant and cut into short segments about 1/4" long and sprinkled over a dish as a garnish. They have a very mild onion-like taste.

djm

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:30 pm

scallions

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:18 pm

'Round here we call 'em green onions and chives are called wild onions- if you've ever intentionally planted chives - watch out- those things'll spread all over the place.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:10 pm

djm wrote:
Wanderer wrote:i don't know what chives are in real life
The are a flowering plant. The leaves are actually long thin tubes, about 1/8" diameter, with pointed ends. They grow to 12-18" high. Usually they are harvested off the living plant and cut into short segments about 1/4" long and sprinkled over a dish as a garnish. They have a very mild onion-like taste.

djm

Well, actually all the plants we've been talking about are flowering plants. Your picture certainly looks like the chives we have in our yard. We don't get enough sun for them to spread much and the flowers really are gorgeous.

Chive
(Allium schoenoprasum)

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:33 pm

djm wrote:
Wanderer wrote:i don't know what chives are in real life

Bad Quoting! Bad DJM! <sprays DJM with a spritzer bottle>

cowtime wrote:'Round here we call 'em green onions and chives are called wild onions- if you've ever intentionally planted chives - watch out- those things'll spread all over the place.

That's absolutely true! I love fresh chives as a garnish, and hate dried chives. And the "fresh" chives you can get in the blister pack are usually wilted and slimy and gross. So, at the old house, I bought some chive seeds to grow some chives in the long planter I had fresh basil in. It ended up all over the planter, and in the yard around the planter too. Heh.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:54 pm

My wife calls them Tamanegi.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:46 am

mutepoint wrote:Bad Quoting! Bad DJM!

Oops! Damn, I mean Wanderer wrote:Bad Quoting! Bad DJM!

Oh, gord, I is mortarfied! I made a mistake. My bad. Fixed, it is now.

djm

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:02 pm

djm wrote:
mutepoint wrote:Bad Quoting! Bad DJM!

Oops! Damn, I mean Wanderer wrote:Bad Quoting! Bad DJM!
Oh, gord, I is mortarfied! I made a mistake. My bad. Fixed, it is now.

djm

I was just teasing, really

I was just shocked to see that I didn't know what a chive was, and originally thought you were having some fun with me

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:44 pm

In Australia we mostly call them shallots.

But then, in Australia, we have begun to call silverbeet "spinach" and now call what we used to call spinach "English spinach".

Australians, I think, are losing it. Many here want to become a republic.

English spinach my ass!

When I was young, I got into big trouble once for putting chopped "shallots" in a spring salad for dinner. A Hindu Holy Man was visting our home and we had advice that, other than vegetarian, he did not eat garlic and onions. As it turned out he didn't take any salad anyway. However one of his holier than thou American followers had some and procalimed the breach loudly. Word got back to the pantry where I was looking for some almonds for the dessert. While I was being reprimanded for my ignorance, the disciple, (I was told afterwards) was reprimaned by the Holy Man for her black of courtesy over a trifle. However the reprimanding she got was ever so gentle. She was simply asked to consider such a trifle a blessing- an opportunity for to practise forgiveness.

That American lass had long flowing hair. Haughty yet beautiful she was. I always think of her as the Lady of Shallot.

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:52 pm

I call them the vegetable that caused the great Taco Bell e-coli scare of '06!

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:48 pm

my wife, a true vegetable hater, was so pleased this past year when spinach became a bad thing to eat. she actually said this once, "i don't like lettuce, it just mucks up a salad."

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