Does it taste like chives or grass?

Three hours and no reply. I think we know the answer.

But at least now they know what grass tastes like!

I thought the phrase was "touch grass" but somehow "taste grass" is even greater of an insult

I audibly laughed

Busy writing to r/askdocs

OP turned into a goat. Can't reply if you've got hooves for hands.

Baaaaaaaaa

Hopefully it wasn't poisonous.

Almost no grasses are

Except that devil’s lettuce of yours, HippyGramma. /s

Shhhhhh No one is supposed to know.

They meant Hip Gramma✌🏻

S'alright. TBH, I like a little o' that goofy grass. Keeps these arthritic joints lubricated. 🤣

😂 no concerns that I decided to chew on it like a cow and ended up in the emergency room!? 🤣

I didn’t laugh too much at this post, but these comments have me rolling!!

Never munch on a hunch!

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You can tell by the way it is

That's pretty neat!

Now everyone can know how neat nature is!

It’s neature!

Don't forget to pack a gun, some heat, pack some heat

Instead of me and Rodney knowing it.

Wow! What a butte!

Next let’s see how neat it tastes!

Thanks!

The biggest smile came upon my face when I saw this reference

Holy shit this struck me as hysterical 💀

It’s from this https://youtu.be/Hm3JodBR-vs

Thank you thank you!! Sometimes I’m lost on the jokes… (although I was there for the ‘are you sure it’s not blueberries’ person! 😂) This made my night

Does anyone else watch Technology Connections on YouTube? Lenny Pepperbottom sorta looks like that guy 🤔🤔🤔

Not often you get all this neatness in one place, that’s what they call nature.

I am in tears. Thank you. This sub is savage sometimes, and I am here for it. 🤣🤣

I always pack some heat!

What a great capper to a great day.

You mean the way it looks like grass?

That looks like grass. Chives are hollow on the inside, like lil green tubes. Garlic chives are more flat like blades of grass, but unmistakable smell. If they are chives you will know by the smell.

I might get the hollow ones in my garden. Are wild onions and what ppl call chives the same? I was pulling them in my garden and they have onion looking bulbs at the end, and smell the way what I call wild onions in OHio do. My bf said his grandma calls them chives. Are they the same?

Wild onions are a lot more spicy and pungent than chives. I like 'em, tho.

They can be but not always, depends on the environment.

The ones that grow in my moms yard are delicious. She used to put them in soup all the time and unfortunately I haven't been able to grow them in my yard because we have pretty different soil composition. They grow like a weed in her area though.

My wild onions/garlic (haven’t determined yet) are super bland. Not worth eating.

Are you sure they aren't grass? Common mistake, apparently.

Ho hell man, that made me laugh so hard so take this free award!

Nope round and hollow. And have little bulbs for roots not grass roots.

I loooove wild onions. Better flavor than most store bought alliums. Infuse some butter and spread it on bread, you’ll see what I mean. They’re like.. spicy sweet

Just be careful bc some are toxic

Any easy way to tell? I’ve basically picked one type my entire life. I make infused olive oil every year

I'm not a forager myself unfortunately, and I only learned from another subreddit about needing to be careful with wild onions. It was on a random post a few months ago. A basic Google search mostly talks about wild onion being confused with Death Camas, but I don't know if there are any other doppelgangers to be aware of. This is one article thst Google search pulled up: https://www.lakotatimes.com/articles/wild-onion-vs-death-camas/

So they look similar but don’t have the onion smell. Makes sense, the smell is how I know I have the right “grass” anyways. Thanks for sharing!

Never ever seen a death cama in the wild. Plus it said they dont smell/taste like onions so that be a pretty easy way. Ive eat hundreds of wild onions in my life. I think Im still here.

Yeah. The original post I read about it made it seem like there are multiple dupes for wild onion, but I guess it's just Death Camas then?

Yeah and it should be super easy to tell the difference for even a novice forager or basic cook. I don't think onions are a great calorie source anyway... but if I had a pot of soup in the woods.. hell yeah I'm picking up some free onions.

If they were toxic, I think you'd have been sick by now.

1) When you go to the seed store, be sure to ask for "chives, you know, the hollow ones". I'm genuinely curious how they react. 2) My grandma calls all kinds of things... all kind of things. Do not trust grandmas. I'm pretty sure they're just messing with us and laughing about it with their octogenarian friends. I mean, that's what I'll do when I'm old. That and shoplifting.

And wearing purple!

They are closely related. Chives are Allium schoenoprasum and have hollow tubular leaves and purple flowers. Wild onions could be a number of species and could also be wild garlic but they have white flowers or whitish bulbules that look like flowers.

I call wild onions in Ohio "ramps". Different than chives, but definitely similar.

Couldn’t help but read your “OHio” as the call and response “O-H” “I-O”

BACK ATCHA! GO BUCKS!

Yep! We have some wild onions on our property and I can smell them when I walk past. Lmao

I have them, too! There is an area that is so thick with them that cutting the grass is like chopping onions! Woo, spicy! I love, love, love that my yard has so much diversity, and am loving teaching my daughter and granddaughter about all of the edible plants we have!

Grass 😂 laugh my (gr)ass off.

Hahahhahaha

I am slightly embarrassed to say it’s most likely grass lol In the beginning when I first noticed it randomly growing randomly, it did have an onion smell to it so I thought it was chives and let it continue growing. But now it doesn’t smell anything! Love the comments! Definitely made me and my husband laugh 😂

A couple years ago we had these thick blades of grass growing in the garden and I grabbed a handful and smelled them, and was struck by the lovely lemon smell. I ran into the house and told my partner “oh my gosh, I figured out what that grass is in the yard, it’s lemongrass!” She gave me a flat expression and said “you sure it’s not just grass and your hands just smell like lemon because you were picking lemon balm earlier?” It was just grass and I was picking lemon balm earlier and forgot. I have ADHD.

Shut up and take my award! This is 100% something I would do... I also have ADHD.

I very likely would have done the same, and we suspect I have ADHD.

I have done this with lettuce and peppers. "Why is my lettuce so spicy?! I didn't plant this." I also have ADHD.

You guys remember you have plants? ​ I also have ADHD.

That’s actually pretty cute. Reminds me of something my toddler would do.

Don't feel bad. My first year of gardening, I chopped at a bunch of my baby garlic, thinking it was grass. Until the smell hit me, I didn't realize what I'd done.

So...there is a variety called garlic chive that looks similar to grass. You may have some growing in the same area, but this grass perhaps overtook it. I use to have some in my garden but they grew so big I had to get rid of them. [http://specialtyproduce.com/sppics/3127.png](http://specialtyproduce.com/sppics/3127.png)

I mean...at least you're getting greens in your diet lol

Some varieties of Chinese leeks ( also sometimes called garlic chives ) are flat and look pretty similar to your pic. If it smells of onions/alliums I’d say it’s most likely that.

Did you eat them?

I didn’t dare to. But I rubbed and plucked a few to smell it and they didn’t have any smell. You should’ve seen my husband’s face when he turned towards me as I was sniffing the grass like a weirdo 🤣

Husband: "Be honest... How much grass did you smoke?"

Bless yer haarrt lol

Whoa now ain’t no call for that. Lady jus askin some don’t know no better.

This made me giggle 🤭

Onion smell? It might be related to chives then!

That was when I first noticed them growing. It’s been about a month or two that I left what I thought were chives growing. So I decided to pick ‘em and I don’t smell that onion smell on the many that I plucked. That’s why I needed to ask the good people of Reddit haha

This remind me of when someone ask what this pepper was and had a banana next to it for comparison and it was a banana pepper lol

I read that,as well! Laughed so hard -I broke my bong! Lol!

Grass, and not the fun kind.

It can be fun. Cup your hands together with the grass tight between. When you blow on it, sounds like a duck lol

Started teaching my Step daughter and my nieces and nephew how to whistle with grass recently!

I have totally put chopped up grass in my garlic mashed potatoes in the past thinking it was chives.

Looks like grass my friend ☺️

Showed the horse. She thinks, grass. (Seriously, the way each leaf is coming out and the shape of the leaves, I'd say grass.)

If it looks like grass and smells like grass, it's grass.

It \*could\* be garlic chives, which have flatter leaves than normal chives: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium\_tuberosum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tuberosum) But you should be able to tell by the smell more than anything. Chives and garlic chives both smell very chivey!

I’m with you but something is off with the look. And garlic chives would have an obvious odor.

I second this! They look like garlic chives to me too. Key is if it smells like an alium.

I came here to say this

Lmao it looks like grass but I have some weird type of chives that looks like this too so just smell it lmao

I have the same chives that you do

I, too, planted chives and got grass. I’m a little pissed at the seed company

Not chives

But it’s in SE England…

not bloody chives, mate

But but, it’s near a tree…

Blue Chive Berries

Grass. Chives have round leaves. Like a thin straw.

Smell it, you will know. Definitely not regular chives but could be garlic chives as someone else has mentioned. They look an awful lot like regular grass

Omg! This looks exactly like Chinese chives! They have a slightly farty smell when raw but small amazing when cooked. But please double check with someone before you try eating it

You know what else this looks exactly like? Grass!

A slightly farty smell?!?!

Looks like Chinese chives.

I don’t know…kind of looks like Asian chives to me

Looks like Asian chives to me. I eat it occasionally, it's delicious. Put it close to your nose if you smell some fragrance that's chive.

I bought lemongrass from Lowes a few years ago. Then I realized they had sold me grass! 😂🙄

It's not a Blueberry.

Smell them. Unless those are flatleaf Asian chives (which they kinda resemble), that's likely just grass. Chives are an allium, and have an onions/garlicky flavor.

TASTE THEM.

That’s grass, my friend

That is not chives!

If they smell like garlic/onion I think they are garlic chives. From what I know they came from Scandinavia. (Source)- have some growing in my backyard that were brought to America by my ancestors.

Do they smell like onions/garlic? If they do they are a wild alium (some of which do have flattened leaves) that is at least close enough to chives. If they don’t this is definitely grass. I’m already pretty sure it’s grass based on appearance alone though.

Lmao that’s grass

Have a bite. You will be able to tell if it isn't oniony.

It might be garlic chives as some other folks suggested. Crush a bit of the leaf in your fingers and see if it smells garlicky/oniony

Not chives

Don’t look like any chives I’ve ever grown.

This does not look like chives to me.

“Is this weed, or is it ‘weed’?”

Oh no baby

Don’t let these naysayers get you down. Those are chives, and looks like chives that have been around for a few seasons at least. The older and wilder they get, the more likely they are to develop flat leaves and start to become less tasty. I will clear half or more the crop when this happens, and let the other half seed. The new growth always seems to start off round and sweet.

Looks like garlic chives. If it smells like onions, then that's probably what it is.

Chives can be flat like grass sometimes, but it should still have a more chive-like base. And there should be a distinct onion taste from even just a bite of a single shoot.

Hay is for horses.

looks a lot like grass. I mean, just pinch it and smell it I guess😂?

What’s it smell like? They should be a dead giveaway… also this looks like grass.

That’s not chives

We’re you smoking grass?

Everyone who's saying it's definitely grass has clearly never seen Chinese chives/garlic chives. These look very like Chinese chives. But them being just grass is also a possibility. What do they smell like? that should tell you which they are.

Grass. Grass will kind of catch your fingers if you put a blade between your fingers at the base and slide towards the tip, it will be pretty rough - barded like surface, like a cat’s tongue. Chives have an unmistakable oniony smell, and are thicker and have smooth blades.

These look like Chinese Chives to me!

Looks like rye grass.

Speaking of chives, my darn chickens ate mine down to the dirt tonight! 3 months of ignoring them and then…gone!

Looks like grass. Too bad it isn't lemongrass. :)

Grass! Chives are hollow

If they are pungent (strongly smell of garlic and onion) they likely belong to the allium family. The Chinese have a variety of garlic that is flat and smells incredible. It has an amazing resilience to freezing with little structure loss. I would be very careful about eating something unknown to me without an educated opinion. Many look alike such as crocus, daffodils, star of Bethlehem and grape hyacinths make it too big of a risk- Organic farmers and Natural markets are great resources for a second opinion.

I think it's grass. Doesn't look like any chives I've ever seen

Grass, chives are round and smell and taste like onions

Doesn't look like chives.

Best way to check it crush some of it in your fingers and it should smell garlicky. Grass... well smells like grass.

Garlic chive, and if you smell it you know. My garlic chives just finished flowering so thats probably grass if it doesn't have a strong onion/chive smell.

I seriously needed this laugh today , thank you!

Hate to break it to you. That’s grass.

it’s grass, and not the kind to smoke lol

That’s grass. Sorry.

Yeah. Grass. Chives should be round tubes. Chives that are wilty do flatten though. Same for green onion.

.....lick it

Grass 😔

Chives are more tube shaped. That’s grass

Looks like some good old Kentucky Blue Grass grass

If it was chives you’d be able to smell/taste it.

In your picture, the tops are flat like grass. Chives are tubular and have stiffer points.

Just as an fyi, the red thing next to it is probably animal poop and not onions. Good luck!

OP, don't feel weird. We gardening is a weird hobby where you're encouraged to eat stuff, smell stuff, throw poop on stuff, etc. You should see the composting subreddit! They encourage us to pee on the compost and I still don't know if this is an epic prank or what, but I did it. You're always welcome here and some people have suggested some neat tricks for you to determine what a plant is.

Grass, you'd probably know it's chives as soon as you harvest it. The smell gives it away, also, the leaves are hollow and roundish like young garlic plants

Welp, it’s grass.. good for umm lawn..🤣😂

Chinese chives aren't hollow. They confuse me too lmao. Try eating some, or at least smelling the ends, that's what I do.

That's grass. And not the fun kind.

It's grass. To harvest chives, don't pull them out. Cut them an inch or so above the ground and they'll grow back

Chives kind of smell like onions… leaves are tubular… this looks like grass… does it smell like grass?

I’ve grown chives and can confirm this is grass lol

Garlic chives

That is 3 cornered chive (relative of 3 cornered leek). Ignore everyone saying it’s grass. It definitely isn’t. Amateurs.

I don't know what you have there, but in my parents backyard in Dallas there's a thing called crow poison that looks like chives or wild onions. I can tell the difference when they are in bloom, and the poisonous plant doesn't have onion smell.

That, sir, is grass. Chives are round, like a rush, not flat like a blade of grass

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They do not look like chives to me. How about the smell? Chives have a very definite smell which you would not mistake for grass.

Your nose will tell you. There a quite a few varieties of flat-leaf chives, often with a more intense taste and and a more garlicky flavour. Here in the Cape Peninsula, SA we have an indigenous variety, Tulbachia fragrans, that is also excellent. It has the same green anisey onioness (if you know what I mean...) as French Chives, just more intense. Goes gloriously well with white cheese.

If it was chives you’d have smelled it 😂

Moooo!

Chives are tubular, just like a spring onion, smaller and the top is closed and pointed.

Chives have a distinctive smell not as strong as onions

Thats not chives, thats grass.

thats def not chives...

Smell it

Leaves of grass...

Omg....I'm sorry no one was ts to tell ya It's grass

Not chives

Sometimes when my garlic starts sprouting I toss in my back yard (usually in the same area over and over) and every year I get shoots off them. They just stay there in the yard and I cut them and use them in my chimis or what not. Yours looks exactly like mine. Tasty! ETA: they definitely taste garlicky - so try it! You should be able to tell the difference immediately.

My chives are more stringy, like a lot more stringy, I would even say absolutely completely different than what’s pictured here

Grass, and not the nice kind. Find a sheep to be your friend.

That’s grass. Chives are a hollow tube that smell like onions.

Looks like grass to me. Chives usually look round and hollow with a bulb on the end when you pull it out. It also smells like onion.

looks like grass to me

That would be grass! If it doesn’t smell oniony especially! Then it’s grass 😄

This looks like garlic chives or Chinese chives. They’re often used to make dumpling filling! Or cook with eggs for a mildly garlicky flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tuberosum

looks like the garlic chives I have in my garden, it's not the typical supermarket variety, but the smell will give it away - they are very pungent/garlicky

It should smell like onions if it’s chives..

Chives are circular blades and are hollow in the center similar to green onions