Onion rings food category: vegetable or starch?

[chef koo]

this was inspired after seeing pictures of marlenes onion rings in the fried chicken thread. i was wondering what onion rings are appropriately supposed to be served as; veg or starch. whenever i go out for a burger they're always served on the side just like french fries. but the only starch on them is the batter.

Edited April 22 by Smithy
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[hotMeat]

I say starch. Onion is more flavor than actual veg. Leeks maybe pass as a veg but standard onions, to me, are more like mustard; technically a veg but doesn't fill the veg hole in a meal.

[Busboy]

I go by color: white or green. Onions are white, like potatoes, rice or pasta, and so should be treated as such.

Don't ask me about carrots, corn or eggplant. No system is perfect.

[WHT]

Some diabetic charts have them count as one of each. I think it depends on the type of dietary restrictions you are trying to follow.

[mizducky]

Welllll ... I would count onions per se as a vegetable dish. However, since in my book the best onion rings are a good fifty-percent or more batter-coating by volume, that does sorta tip them over into the starch category.

[chef koo]

batter as the starch? damn i can hear the blood vessels clogging

busboy that's hilarious

[NulloModo]

I'd say starch. Aside from the batter, which if of course pure starch, onions are a much more carb-laden vegetable than most people realize, though a lot of it is more from natural sugars than natural starches.