My mother-in-law asked me to pick up green onions from the store. When I got home, she said I’d bought scallions instead and refused to use them. She was pretty rude about it. I honestly thought they were the same thing—are they actually different, or just different names for the same thing?
You weren’t wrong—this is mostly a language/usage confusion, not a real “wrong ingredient” situation. 🧅 Are green onions and scallions different? In most places, especially in the U.S. and many international recipes: 👉 Green onions = scallions = same thing Scallion Green onion They are both: the same plant (young onion) harvested early before forming …










