Garlic

Referring to Owen Glendower, Shakespeare gives Hotspur the words:
"I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer-house in Christendom."

I don't think he liked garlic very much!

Garlic is in old English recipes but did go out of fashion at some point! I have always eaten garlic and use it regularly.. but last night OH had a sudden severe and dramatic reaction in the restaurant we were at .. dizziness, clammy, fainted and threw up! This has happened about 5 times in the 46 years I have known him but probably actually over the last 15.. the only thing we can link it to is garlic overload! Anyone else heard of this??

I include garlic in almost everything I eat – with the possible exception of muesli.

It's interesting that garlic went out of fashion in this country. It's mentioned in The Canterbury Tales.

Went on the school French exchange for 3 weeks when I was 14 and ate garlic everyday and have done ever since[smelly breath emoticon]

That would explain it, jeni!

I was in Venezia from age 1 1/2 for a couple of years. My parents liked the local cuisine, we always eat Italian!

I've been recommended a Garlic Wash.....................no, not for me, but to put on my hostas that are being devoured by snails & slugs!!

What, even in the olden days of your youth, jeni? I don't think my parents, let alone grandparents, had even heard of it!

I've eaten garlic as long as I can remember?

In the days before garlic became widely used in this country, I was in an Austrian train with two friends when a portly gentleman got into the carriage. The hitherto unfamiliar aroma of garlic filled the atmosphere to the extent that we thought we'd be gassed. Nowadays we probably wouldn't turn a hair or we would have been consuming it ourselves, but back then, in 1964, it was so alien to us, shrinking Scottish violets.

Or the only one who'll admit to it!

Yes. You probably are

I have to be careful with garlic, because I work with some people who don't like the smell [although one of then sometimes smells of garlic himself ]. I therefore feel that a law should be passed making everybody eat garlic all the time so we all smell of it and don't notice it. I also love the smell of wild garlic. Which reminds me of someone telling me years back of going a courting one night and not noticing that he and his girlfriend were romping in the wild garlic [not hay]. Everyone else noticed, though .

Am I the only one not keen on the way garlic has crept into nearly everything these days? I like it in moderation, but not to the extent of having to pick the cloves out because I don't actually want to chew them...

I don't live far from the Isle of Wight where I believe is the premier garlic farm in England. We love taking the ferry and making a day of things by going to the garlic farm to have lunch in their restaurant or 'cafe' as they like to call it. The food is really good with much emphasis on local food and of course garlic with everything!!
When I can buy cheap garlic I buy a lot of it and bottle in olive oil, ready chopped, so that I can spoon it out when required.

Best value I've found is to buy garlic in a net of three from Lidl..89p..and they are big!

Love garlic especially when it's pickled yum yum.

Can't remember exactly where, but I think it was either in or near Chinatown.

I love garlic too. I harvested a really good crop a few weeks ago, currently drying out in the shed....about 3 dozen huge bulbs. I think all the rain helped.

OOO Don"t think even I could fancy garlic ice cream, where abouts in S>F> was it ?

I saw, but didn't enter, a garlic restaurant in San Francisco in which everything was made with garlic- including a garlic ice cream.

Garlic! Mmm. Yummy good for you too. Reduces cholesterol.

Good for you too.

Coo Grannylin that sounds exotic , what is it ? may I come over to yours ? will bring a bottle , promise .