Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
> Miche wrote:
> >
> > Shallots are not the same things as spring onions/scallions.
>
> This gets covered every so often in RFC. The term is used
> differently in different geographies.
>
> In most of the US, an onion and a shallot are two different
> (species, breed, variety, something like that). Shallots end
> up dried and taste much more of garlic. Young onions are
> *not* called shallots, they are called scallions or green
> onions. In most of the US the breed of plant that is called
> shallot is only sold mature and perhaps even partially dried.
> Garlic, shallot, onion, chive, leek are all breeds in the same
> family that are sorted by intensity of the breed. All of the
> breeds could potentially be harvested young, old, dried, etc.
>
> In most of the UK, a shallot is a young plant.

Don't think so. What's sold in UK supermarkets as a shallot is not the
same thing as a spring onion/green onion/salad onion/scallion. There's a
picture he http://www.magicvalleygrowers.com/shallots/

>Maybe the
> same breed of plant as an onion, maybe the same breed of plant
> as the garlicy flavored one. At a guess AU, NZ and other
> places that prefer UK terminology over US terminology likely
> use shallot this way (young shoot).

Don't know why green onions are called shallots in AU or NZ, but it
isn't because that's what they are called in the UK.