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Corey Richardson wrote:
> I see that quite a few American recipes have "green onions" in them.
> Does anyone know what the British equivalent is? Are they what we call
> spring onions?
>


When I was a kid what we now call green onions used to be called spring
onions. They look like skinny leeks but with darker green tops.
Sometimes they are slightly bulbed at the white end but are usually
almost straight tube shaped.