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the onion that never grew up and absolutely thrives that way
means A young onion harvested before the bulb swells, eaten whole for its mild green stalk and tiny white base.
from From Old French 'escaloigne,' itself from Latin 'caepa Ascalonia' — the 'onion of Ascalon,' a Mediterranean port city (in what's now southern Israel) that the Romans associated with these alliums. The same Ascalon root quietly fathered 'shallot' too, so scallion and shallot are linguistic siblings, both named for a city that never asked for the credit.
- regrow trick
- replants from its own root scraps in water
- name origin
- named for ancient port city Ashkelon
- whole-plant edible
- every inch, white root to green tip, eats
- identity crisis
- also called green onion and spring onion
- cut-and-come
- harvest the tops, it keeps producing more
for instance
welsh onion — a scallion variety grown in wales since medieval times, also called cibol
bunching onion — the most commercially cultivated scallion type in asia, particularly in japan and china