Garlic

[PaulW2]

There have been documentaries on Chinese garlic. They reportedly use prison labour to peel a lot of the garlic under ... pretty dodgy conditions.



There is a Netflix documentary called, I think, "Garlic Breath", which also covered this. Prisoners have their nails ruined, then use their teeth to peel garlic and so on. Standards of hygiene clearly questionable.

Key point from all the above: don't buy peeled garlic.

 

[Jewellbags]

Haven’t bought garlic for a few years - grow my own elephant garlic (200 heads this year) and the shortest distance to my kitchen is 2 yards

 

[JJ]

I'm not touching any vegetables or garden grown produce that weren't in England in the 50's.

JJ

 

[PaulW2]

I'm not touching any vegetables or garden grown produce that weren't in England in the 50's.

JJ

Of course you are, in sunny Portugal!

 

[Lenny HB]

Went into a small supermarket in Carmona today I checked the garlic "produce of Spain"

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[ChrisL]

I have to say, I love the odd Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney pie, but that pesky garlic gets itself into everything

Ingredients​

• Water,
• Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin),
• Beef (15%),
• Pork Kidney (10%),
• Palm Oil,
• Modified Maize Starch,
• Rapeseed Oil,
• Salt,
• Onion Powder,
• Barley Malt Extract,
• Tomato Paste,
• Yeast Extract,
• Flavouring,
• Beef Extract,
• Chicory Extract,
• Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum),
• Sugar,
• Colour (Plain Caramel),
• White Pepper,
• Tomato Powder,
• Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids),
• Garlic Powder

 

[CazPaul]

Garlic has a wonderful compound called allicin, it’s an antiseptic, antioxidant and a cancer preventing superfood.

 

[Widge]

Garlic is a flavour enhancer . Present in lots of food that people , who hate garlic , love

A friend who is garlic intolerant, told me that as garlic has anti bacterial properties, it is often added not just for taste but to help preserve whatever it is added to.

 

[Diabalo]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rick-scott-chinese-sewer-garlic-b2662844.html

This keeps cropping up about Chinese Garlic, there is loads on the web, I wonder how safe it is? I'm sure I don't want to eat anything grown in human waste.

I hope our own foods standard agency are on top of it.

 

[chaser]

If you have a couple of square yards of soil, garlic is one of the easiest things to grow your own, stick a few cloves in now and in June you will have your own grown garlic.

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[swemmy666]

I find Chinese garlic has a harsh taste much prefer French

and it is likey to hack your broadband

 

[meanders]

Garlic is the food of the devil as far as I am concerned. These people who consume platefuls of garlic bread with a meal and stink for a week after.

 

[Richard n Ann]

The word is pronounced GARRRRRRRLIC with your mouth open as much as possible blowing the fragrance over to your victim

 

[The Wino]

We cook with garlic most days. I think it's likely all ready meals pub food etc will contain the cheapest possible ingredients. Odd that someone from a country wanting to open our market to foods that don't meet our standards is complaining about Chinese ingredients!

 

[ChrisL]

There is a Netflix documentary called, I think, "Garlic Breath",

I was just looking for this, is it part of a series called Rotten about the food industry? If so I'm just watching episode one which is about Avocado, quite interesting, apparently using so much water that there are water shortages for locals.

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