Vegetables included onions, chives, cabbage, celery, wild garlic and leeks. Typical condiments added for flavour include parsley, chives, dill and black pepper. The scapes of scallions, chives, garlic chives, and garlic are used as vegetables. It can contain other ingredients such as scallions (spring onions), leeks, Laverbread, onions and chives. The dish is usually seasoned with onion, tomatoes, coriander, and chives. Chives and capers are common additions. The flavor is more like garlic than chives. Almost always, no matter the type, chowder is garnished or dressed with chopped chives. It prefers seedless grapes, ripe melons and Russian chives when consuming domestic crops. Archie says that Fritz tries to grow herbs such as chives in the garden. It often is paired up with chives when used in food. They believed eating chives could increase blood pressure and act as a diuretic. Romani have used chives in fortune telling.