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Foodies: young onions - what are they?

So I’m writing a short essay about a poem that includes the phrase “young onions”. (Btw, totally not asking you to do my homework for me). I looked it up on google and it was really hard to find a definition (the best I found was here http://www.harvestwizard.com/2008/05/... but even that seems to be more a how-to identify certain kinds of young onions than anything). So I decided to come here and ask.

To you, is a “young onion” just a green onion? Are there connotations I’m missing? Where have you heard it called that? (I’ve only ever heard the differentiations - spring onion, green onion, scallion). Do you know why these are called young onions (other than the fact that they simply haven’t been growing long)?

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Foodies! Young onions - what are they?

So I’m writing a short essay about a poem that includes the phrase “young onions”. (Btw, totally not asking you to do my homework for me). I looked it up on google and it was really hard to find a definition (the best I found was here http://www.harvestwizard.com/2008/05/... but even that seems to be more a how-to identify certain kinds of young onions than anything). So I decided to come here and ask.

To you, is a “young onion” just a green onion? Are there connotations I’m missing? Where have you heard it called that? (I’ve only ever heard the differentiations - spring onion, green onion, scallion). Do you know why these are called young onions (other than the fact that they simply haven’t been growing long)?

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Mr Sherpen changed the tags on this post: they were "Green onion, Onion, Heard, green, young, definition, Come Here, homework, Scallion, growing" 2 years, 1 month ago.

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Zirbel 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (3 hours, 6 minutes after post)

Definitions:
http://www.websters-online-dictionary…

Mr Sherpen 3 #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (3 hours, 18 minutes after post)

Yeah, uh, thanks, but I already said in my post that I know what a green onion is and such. I’m not interested in “green onion”, “scallion”, or “spring onion” as phrases, I’m interested in “young onion”.

As I said. So sorry, that’s not helpful at all. :/

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Zirbel 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (3 hours, 22 minutes after post)

OMG, they are called YOUNG, because they are YOUNG, just growing up, you know! What else!

Mr Sherpen 3 #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (3 hours, 24 minutes after post)

No need to freak out. :) But it’s nice to know how emotionally involved you are in your one-word-one-link replies to posts, Zirbel!

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Zirbel 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (3 hours, 29 minutes after post)

Stupid questions generate stupid answers, Mrs. Herpes!
;-)

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Mr Sherpen 3 #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (3 hours, 33 minutes after post)

To reply in earnest:
You imply that the only meaning of a word is it’s denotation.

denotation |ˌdēnōˈtā sh ən|
noun
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests : beyond their immediate denotation, the words have a connotative power.

I wanted to know if people have a personal, cultural, or specific definition of the phrase “young onions” - aka, it’s connotative meaning.

connotation |ˌkänəˈtā sh ən|
noun
something that a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning : the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression.

I do hope these definitions help you to stop being a jerk. 3

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Zirbel 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (4 hours after post)

The connotation or figured meaning of a “young onion” is a human greenhorn or an newly upcoming theory/idea.

Examples quotes:

“When I was still a young onion, I remember complaining to my dad about the fact that there weren’t as many hot men for me to look at as there were hot women all over commercials/tv/movies for dad and my teenage brother to ogle.”

“While the rise of psychiatry occurred over several centuries, it did not shed its socio-politicized skin. Rather, like a young onion, it continued to add new layers.”

And Robert Burns wrote about “Sybow, a young onion”, “a sybow-tail”.

Unfortunately you didn’t tell the POEM you are writing about …

Mr Sherpen 3 #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (4 hours, 4 minutes after post)

Mr Sherpen wrote:
I wanted to know if people have a personal, cultural, or specific definition of the phrase “young onions” - aka, it’s connotative meaning.

Thank you for, for once, responding in a serious manner. However insightful, you have again completely ignored the point of my post. However, I do appreciate the effort. Thank you.

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Zirbel 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (4 hours, 8 minutes after post)

Mr Sherpen wrote:

Mr Sherpen wrote:
I wanted to know if people have a personal, cultural, or specific definition of the phrase “young onions” - aka, it’s connotative meaning.

Thank you for, for once, responding in a serious manner. However insightful, you have again completely ignored the point of my post. However, I do appreciate the effort. Thank you.

I don’t think that I missed your point — but I don’t give out my personal view to it.
Just this one: You are a very young onion, not yet well-engineered, but already very spicy ;-)

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