We're the same with bell peppers, Ali. Small and hot.
The big red pepper above is just that - a red pepper!
I've found the big beefy spring onions. Turns out they are just a variant spring onion. They still look a bit weird to me. More common in America apparently.
Oh, Ali - while looking for spring onions I found out that calling spring onions "shallots" is an Australian thing. From wiki
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In Australia, the foodstuff industry has renamed a number of vegetables. The name shallot has been applied to scallions, normally called spring onions in Australia, and shallots have been renamed eschalotte. The term French shallot has also been used for Allium oschaninii.
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Another case of same word, different meaning!