Can you tell the difference between chives and shallots? Social media is losing it over this small detail at Woolworths
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Two eagle-eyed Woolworths customers have got everyone talking with their surprising discovery. Can you guess what it is? (Hint: It's in the title)
The shoppers, who are unrelated, independently took to social media to reveal that they had both purchased chives from the retailer via home delivery.
However, when their orders arrived, they found that the packs had been filled with a very different vegetable…
The customers claimed that they both received spring onions instead of chives.
“On what planet, Woolworths, are these ‘chives’. This is a packet of small spring onion ends,” one shopper wrote in a Twitter post along with a photo of the item.
The other customer took to Facebook to share the "unfortunate" discovery, writing: “LOL, Woolworths. I just got a delivery and these are onion tops and not chives.”
Photos of the pack of “chives” that the customer claimed to be filled with spring onions. Credit: Facebook/Twitter.
Well, it can't be denied that the two vegetables look very similar to each other — after all both are part of the same plant family.
However, what distinguishes chives from spring onions are their milder onion flavour and much narrower leaves. Spring onions, on the other hand, have much thicker green tops.
Keeping this in mind, several social media users argued that the herbs that were delivered to the customers were in fact just "big chives".
One person even suggested that chives can grow in varying shapes and sizes depending on the environment.
The user said: “They grow differently depending on the soil. Fact, not opinion. Growers/farmers pack them not Woolies. Are you saying you know better?”
The customer who received the pack of herbs, however, claimed that the vegetable was in fact spring onions, writing: “These definitely are not chives. Chives are much smaller, and they don’t have large holes through their centre.”
Others backed the shopper, pointing out that the herbs were "anything but chives".
One user wrote: “Seriously? I agree with the [customer] (having grown chives many times) that these are the discarded tops from spring onions.”
“Chives may grow differently depending on soil or a multitude of other conditions but they do not grow as big and thick as scallions and spring onions. Fact,” another added.
It is understood that Woolworths adheres to very strict labelling laws that prohibit deliberately mislabelling a product.
It is also believed that the two complaints are isolated cases and the retailer has not received any other complaints about this issue.
How about you? Do you think the herbs that the shoppers received are spring onions or they are just overgrown chives? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
Also, for those who are curious to learn more about the difference between spring onions, chives, scallions, and green onions, we recommend checking out this video:
Credit: YouTube/Jerry James Stone
The shoppers, who are unrelated, independently took to social media to reveal that they had both purchased chives from the retailer via home delivery.
However, when their orders arrived, they found that the packs had been filled with a very different vegetable…
The customers claimed that they both received spring onions instead of chives.
“On what planet, Woolworths, are these ‘chives’. This is a packet of small spring onion ends,” one shopper wrote in a Twitter post along with a photo of the item.
The other customer took to Facebook to share the "unfortunate" discovery, writing: “LOL, Woolworths. I just got a delivery and these are onion tops and not chives.”
Photos of the pack of “chives” that the customer claimed to be filled with spring onions. Credit: Facebook/Twitter.
Well, it can't be denied that the two vegetables look very similar to each other — after all both are part of the same plant family.
However, what distinguishes chives from spring onions are their milder onion flavour and much narrower leaves. Spring onions, on the other hand, have much thicker green tops.
Keeping this in mind, several social media users argued that the herbs that were delivered to the customers were in fact just "big chives".
One person even suggested that chives can grow in varying shapes and sizes depending on the environment.
The user said: “They grow differently depending on the soil. Fact, not opinion. Growers/farmers pack them not Woolies. Are you saying you know better?”
The customer who received the pack of herbs, however, claimed that the vegetable was in fact spring onions, writing: “These definitely are not chives. Chives are much smaller, and they don’t have large holes through their centre.”
Others backed the shopper, pointing out that the herbs were "anything but chives".
One user wrote: “Seriously? I agree with the [customer] (having grown chives many times) that these are the discarded tops from spring onions.”
“Chives may grow differently depending on soil or a multitude of other conditions but they do not grow as big and thick as scallions and spring onions. Fact,” another added.
It is understood that Woolworths adheres to very strict labelling laws that prohibit deliberately mislabelling a product.
It is also believed that the two complaints are isolated cases and the retailer has not received any other complaints about this issue.
How about you? Do you think the herbs that the shoppers received are spring onions or they are just overgrown chives? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
Also, for those who are curious to learn more about the difference between spring onions, chives, scallions, and green onions, we recommend checking out this video:
Credit: YouTube/Jerry James Stone
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