# mundane pointless question i must ask **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905 "2000-09-03T22:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/1 "2000-09-03T22:26:49Z")
Is onion grass the same as chives? 'Cause I like to chew on onion grass that I find in my backyard, and it sure LOOKS a lot like the chives my mom has growing in her herb garden. But she won’t let me haul the chives up to see if there’s a little oniony thing on the bottom of them, and I never see the purple chivey flowers on the onion grass… ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/2 "2000-09-03T22:30:22Z")
_Yawn_ umm huh you were saying? ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/3 "2000-09-03T22:35:12Z")
aha thats just rude!!! Besides as an aging rock star this is your specialty! I think he/she is talking about drugs! ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/4 "2000-09-03T22:36:00Z")
lol actually, if you wanna say anything about drugs, i’ll listen to that too at the time, onion grass seeemed like a VERY pressing subject to me… i need to stop popping caffeine pills NOW ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/5 "2000-09-03T22:38:57Z")
Now, now, aha, it is the name of the forum. But racinchikki, you may want to edit that sig down a little bit. Anyway – they’re not the same thing, though wild chives are sometimes called onion grass. Here are pictures of Chives [http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/p\_chives.htm](http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/p_chives.htm) Onion grass [http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/p\_oniong.htm](http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/p_oniong.htm) I don’t think you can smoke either one, though 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/6 "2000-09-03T22:43:02Z")
Onion grass is Allium vineale, Chives are Allium schoenoprasum. Both are members of the lily family. So close, but not the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/7 "2000-09-03T22:46:31Z")
Don’tcha just hate it when you roll down a hill in the park and there’s a big patch of onion grass that you didn’t notice before you started rolling and then you roll right through it and then stink the rest of the day? Do you mean no, you don’t usually roll down hills or no you don’t hate the smell? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/8 "2000-09-03T22:46:51Z")
thank you sorry i didn’t realize how long that sig was i used to use it on my emails and somehow it seemed less huge then ---
**Author:** ![Kalahari\_Khala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kalahari\_Khala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalahari_Khala)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/9 "2000-09-04T02:16:21Z")
I don’t really know onion grass, but I’ve had that experience with deandelions, which stain skin and clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/10 "2000-09-04T02:35:56Z")
Dandelions? I’ve had that experience with _slugs_! Yuck-ee! ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/11 "2000-09-04T02:41:25Z")
racinchikki just a lil’ post to let you know I was only teasing about the yawn. Your post was no more mundane than most of mine are. Welcome to the SDMB btw. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/12 "2000-09-04T02:47:45Z")
Dandelions? Slugs? How about fresh dog turds?? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/13 "2000-09-04T02:49:24Z")
we don’t have any hills here… well, we have hills but if you try to roll down them you end up hitting at least fifteen trees, and that’s if you aim to miss them… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-question-i-must-ask/31905/14 "2000-09-04T03:34:18Z")
I though that stuff was wild garlic.