I always have understood green nions to be shallots/scallions..

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>After reading of the ChiChi's Green Onion problem,
>I cast a jaundiced eye at the onions in my fridge drawer.
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>They're green, look like scallions on steroids.....
>I snip them into omelete, salads, soups, etc.
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>Are these "green onions" ??
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>When they showed the contaminated onions on the local news,
>they looked like regular yellow cooking onions,
>only they were green !
>I guess I've never seen "green onions"
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>????
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><rj>