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There is currently big debate in Italy over garlic.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-06-22-garlic_N.htm?csp=34

I can honestly say I like garlic as long as it isn't overbearing. Once in Spain, I bought some delicious looking huge green olives. I couldn't wait to get home and try them. At home I opened up the bag, took one out, chomped down on it. My wife saw the expression on my face and I managed to get out the word garlic.
Each huge olive was stuffed with a full clove of strong garlic.

I took the stuffing out of the olives and the garlic taste was still overpowering. On the other hand, I do like garlic to a degree and use it frequently in cooking.

A clove a day keeps the vampires away. *nods*

Yea...just another reason why I don't like Europe or Italy much right now, especially that Berlusconi asshat. My aunt apparently likes him and couldn't understand why I didn't when she came over during Christmas. Then again she's also one of the xenophobes I was sad to find out.

Stonebaked garlic bread covered in onions and peppers FTW. Its just not good food if you aren't sweating it out for days

i love garlic, pretty no matter what it's in or on. i also love garlic-stuffed olives. i wish i had some right now....

i <3 garlic! it rocks :)

Garlic is absolutely wonderful and it would be foolish to eliminate it from the foods it has been prepared with for thousands of years.

Garlic is great. It's a delicious ingredient in so many foods & is also very healthy for you.

See, I just LOVE those garlic stuffed olives.

I couldn't live without garlic. And yet, it does tend to ooze out of a person's pores if eaten in excess. It's a sad fact. So, if I don't plan on being intimate with anyone for about three days (or actually just in close proximity to anyone, to be honest) then I can have my most cherished snack. A clove of garlic, with the top cut off, face down in olive oil and salt, baked in a ceramic dish. It's absolute heaven.

It's rare I get to eat that though. But in terms of seasoning for meat, I can't go without it. Garlic powder, salt, pepper, red chilis and beer...divine!

Italians... rejecting... garlic?

They have brought shame upon all of us Italians.

Shame! Shame!

I love garlic. Whenever I cook, garlic tends to find its way into the food. The key is to use just enough to not over power the taste, but enhance.

Was it the Japanese or the Chinese who called the Koreans 'garlic eaters'? As though that was actually worthy of insult?

Was it the Japanese or the Chinese who called the Koreans 'garlic eaters'? As though that was actually worthy of insult?

I don't think it was the Chinese considering they use garlic too and in fairly high quantities. I don't know if they use it as much as the Koreans, but it's probably fairly close.

"Garlic is the king of the kitchen," says Antonello Colonna, another prominent Italian chef. "To eliminate it is like eliminating violins from an orchestra."

QFT

I love the taste of garlic. :)

garlic is fantabulous

that bloke's hatred of garlic is suspicious. somebody ought to hold a mirror up to him, or fashion a crude religious symbol out of a ladel and a spatula and brandish it at him.

Jackassery.

Garlic for the fucking win.

They have a high-profile campaigner in former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, whose aversion to garlic and obsession with minty breath are legendary. During his five-year stint, Palazzo Chigi, the premier's palace, was rigorously garlic-free.
Guess what, Silvio, you've got Streptococcus mutans and Entamoeba gingivalis in yer mouth, garlic or no garlic!

Rossella, who says he is allergic to garlic, has been compiling a list of garlic-free restaurants and hopes to persuade "distinguished" restaurants to come up with separate garlic-free menus.

"Garlic for me is a sort of persecution," he laments. "They put garlic in almost any dish: With meat, with fish, everywhere. It's not politically correct to impose garlic on everybody."
And it isn't politically correct for you to impose shellfish on me, as I am allergic to shellfish. :rolleyes:

Garlic = win. Keeps them vampires away.

Garlic = win. Keeps them vampires away.

Also wolfman.

Guess what, Silvio, you've got Streptococcus mutans and Entamoeba gingivalis in yer mouth, garlic or no garlic!


God thats possibly the most medically geeky insult i've ever seen lol

Garlic, if eaten in quantity, repels midges. *nods*

Garlic, if eaten in quantity, repels midges. *nods*

Does it repel midgets?

that bloke's hatred of garlic is suspicious. somebody ought to hold a mirror up to him, or fashion a crude religious symbol out of a ladel and a spatula and brandish it at him.
:eek: I love you!

Does it repel midgets?

Well if you've got a midget, I'll supply the garlic...

Garlic have great taste! Usually we cook the spaghetti with fresh small tomatoes and a clove of garlic. Before eat the pasta with put away tha garlic but it left a small great taste wich valorize a lot all the dish.

Viva l'aglio! :)

However, do not abuse it ... really!:rolleyes:

P.S.
I never hear nothing on this debate ... Italy is split in half only in politcs during this days ... no one are intrested in garlic :p

Garlic have great taste! Usually we cook the spaghetti with fresh small tomatoes and a clove of garlic. Before eat the pasta with put away tha garlic but it left a small great taste wich valorize a lot all the dish.

Viva l'aglio! :)

However, do not abuse it ... really!:rolleyes:
10 Posts in over a year? I'm impressed! :)

Garlic is utterly delicious!

10 Posts in over a year? I'm impressed! :)

Your post timewarped back at least 2 and a half months. Must be a record ;)

Just under a year, actually. My mistake.

10 Posts in over a year? I'm impressed! :)

I've archieved a record?

(lurking? ... no absenteeism! :headbang:)

I've archieved a record?

(lurking? ... no absenteeism! :headbang:)

Well hell, I suppose it's better than being excessively chatty.;)

There is currently big debate in Italy over garlic.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-06-22-garlic_N.htm?csp=34

I can honestly say I like garlic as long as it isn't overbearing. Once in Spain, I bought some delicious looking huge green olives. I couldn't wait to get home and try them. At home I opened up the bag, took one out, chomped down on it. My wife saw the expression on my face and I managed to get out the word garlic.
Each huge olive was stuffed with a full clove of strong garlic.

I took the stuffing out of the olives and the garlic taste was still overpowering. On the other hand, I do like garlic to a degree and use it frequently in cooking.

The advice I give people on cooking with garlic is the same as I give them with bacon. It's an ingredient, not a course.

The advice I give people on cooking with garlic is the same as I give them with bacon. It's an ingredient, not a course.

Heresy. A pound of bacon is a meal all on it's own.

That is the most one-sided poll result I have ever seen...

Heresy. A pound of bacon is a meal all on it's own.

and roasted garlic....


Mmmmmm... great snacking...

That is the most one-sided poll result I have ever seen...

What about the evolution vs creation poll? That's pretty damn one sided.

Garlic makes every thing better.

Wow, I know a lot of people that don't like garlic. What are the chances that no one dislikes garlic on NSG!

What about the evolution vs creation poll? That's pretty damn one sided.
Never participated in that thread.

Never participated in that thread.

You didn't miss much. :) Most of it for me was just a baked haze.

You didn't miss much. :) Most of it for me was just a baked haze.
Heh. :p

Thumbs up for garlic! :) I use a good deal of it, myself.

Thumbs up for garlic! :) I use a good deal of it, myself.

Thumbs up from the thumbless one? I am perplexed! :confused:

I love the garlic too. Closest I've ever seen to consensus in an NSG poll. :D

Garlic Prawn Pizza

1 fresh pizza base (bread machine make it for ya!)
1 hand of fresh garlic, peeled.
dozen King Prawns (precooked or frozen is OK, but shelled).
1 tablespoon Mayonaisse (real, not the vile sweet stuff).
1 cup grated Mozarella cheese (must be mild cheese).
1/2 raw onion, cut in rings (optional).
capers, anchovies, finely sliced capsicum (optional).
Salt and pepper.

Don't use tomato paste for the pizza sauce, that's a marinara pizza. We are aiming for something oily and very garlicy, rather like Garlic Prawns.

If you can't get Mozarella, mix some very plain cheese with mashed potato or breadcrumbs or leafy vegetables and some butter. Too much salty or bitey cheese will ruin this dish. Even if you must use Ricotta or some non-melting cheese, that is preferable to drowning the pizza in strong cheese.

Put mayonaisse on pizza base. Scatter prawns and garlic cloves (whole or halved) and other ingredients (if opted for) around. Grate Mozarella over the top, but not so much as to seal in the other ingredients.

As with any pizza, get the ingredients all the way out to the edge to minimize crust burning. This dish is meant to be oily, oil carries the garlic taste and aroma into the whole thing.

If that ain't garlic enough, shell another hand and put on top of the cheese -- it roasts and goes very sweet.

I love garlic.. when it is cooked of course (raw tastes like an onion to me,which I despise).

My fav dish with garlic being sliced green peppers and quartered tomatoes sauteed with lots of garlic. Stinks up the house for a while, but worth it.

"Why hasn't somebody invented garlic flavored toothpaste yet?"

"Why hasn't somebody invented garlic flavored toothpaste yet?"

Because people can just use garlic pate?

Garlic is okay in moderation. Too much makes me puke.

"Why hasn't somebody invented garlic flavored toothpaste yet?"

Two reasons:


Garlic stimulates the appetite.
Toothpaste manufacture is utterly corrupt (it's got fluoride in it, nuff said.) Brushing your teeth with ordinary toothpaste (eg Johnson & Johnson) will destroy your freedom of speech and destroy your taste for real food (eg Garlic) as well as making your teeth unnaturally white and shiny. And other stuff which you would know if you weren't deliberately suppressing the signals which chitanous tissues throughout your body were trying to send you. Listen to the teeth brother! They are as old as you, and more numerous.

There's a place in Riverside, CA (near the University of California) called the Substation. They have this hot steak and cheese sandwich that is to die for. The meat, cheese and dressing are infused with garlic, even the bread is rubbed with it - one of the very few things I miss about California.

Garlic... I think I managed to have too much garlic. They only way I can taste it now is if I eat it raw, and on its own or via its absence in meals.

Yea...just another reason why I don't like Europe or Italy much right now, especially that Berlusconi asshat. My aunt apparently likes him and couldn't understand why I didn't when she came over during Christmas. Then again she's also one of the xenophobes I was sad to find out.... Berlusconi is long gone as Premier now.

I can't taste garlic, as my palatte has a bit of a blind spot for it. Unfortunately.