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?
At first glance, these four all look like “green onion-y things”—and they’re often used interchangeably in recipes. But they’re not










