[Image description: a perfectly round peeled bulb of garlic on a cutting board, with unpeeled normal cloves behind it.]

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      “vitlök” - garlic

      “vit lök” - “white onion”

      White onions does not exist.

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        2 months ago

        We use white onions for Mexican food here in the US. I guess it’s obscure enough that they aren’t used in Europe. Not a huge taste difference between white and yellow onions.

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        1 month ago

        i mean there’s silverlök, which is a very white-looking onion…

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      1 month ago

      one is a word, the other is a word with a descriptor in front of it. like greenhouse vs green house, one means a building made of glass where you grow stuff, the other is a house painted the colour green.