hahabogus wrote:

> I think you'll find shallots and scallions aren't the same. Scallions are a
> white bulbous end with a green upper body but way smaller than a leek.
> And shallots are small redish/purplish onion shaped balls wrapped in a tan
> papery skin just a little bigger than a pearl onion, about garlic
> head/cluster sized. Perhaps using a google image search for them might
> explain better.


It never hurts to google, but you'll still find that this one of those
things that depends on what part of the country (or world) you're in.
There are places where what I call a shallot, they call a scallion. Or
the other way round. It always takes a few minutes to untangle the
confusion and figure out what we're talking about.

--Lia