Spring onions? (General)

by May , Friday, August 11, 2006, 14:10 (6671 days ago) @ gwrmad

My Forest grandad who had Monmouthshire connections used to say jibbons, and given the forest accent it could easily have been gibbons, but I was more used to the term scallions. I just presumed (rightly or wrongly) that this was a Yorkshire version as my mother was from Yorkshire and they all use scallions or "scally onions" up there. They were still marked up and sold as Scallions on Guisborough market when I was there last June. Enough diversion for me tonight, back to some family history.