SC - Re: Raw Scallions was garlic

[ChannonM at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/31/00 1:20:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:

<< It may simply be one of those things that are generally 
 > undocumented, but still occurred. For example, people used to eat (I'm
 talking about within the past 50 years, especially) and sometimes still
 do, eat
 > scallions raw, out of hand, the way you might eat a carrot or a 
 > stick of celery >>

My family eats them that way, sometimes dipping them in salt or wrapping them 
in a piece of bread with butter on it. Our heritage is mixed, French-Native 
Indian aka Metis,  Irish, German. Your guess is as good as mine as to where 
it originates from.

Hauviette