Walk into a grocery store looking for green onions and you may come across several names that seem interchangeable: green onions, scallions, spring onions, and chives. They all have a fresh, onion-like flavor, and they’re often used to finish salads, soups, dips, eggs, and countless other dishes.
But are they actually the same thing?
The short answer is sometimes, but not always. Green onions and scallions are often used to describe the same vegetable, while spring onions are usually more mature and have a noticeably larger bulb. Chives are adifferent
