GARLIC - the work of the devil . . .

[shivvy]

Everything about garlic makes me chunder!
I think I really do detest it.
I don't understand why it is put into so many dishes seemingly unnecessarily.
The most appalling smell that I have experienced is that of people breathing old garlic breath on me. I think I could accept BO better. The fact that people are happy to have their breath smell in such a disgusting fashion is an amazement to me.
They seem however to be blissfully unaware that the people that they are talking to are about to puke because their breathy is so revolting.
It seems even so much more offensive when people feed their children garlic and they therefore also honk.
Man alive - I know that it might taste nice for you for the couple of minutes that you eat it but please, other people really do not want to smell your old breath dinner days later.

[msemma]

I agree, I hate garlic. I hate the fact that food is padded out with garlic to disguise that it is cheap and nasty.

[makemesmile]

I remember going on a school field trip to a woodland area. There was a small river running through it, and lots of wild garlic growing at it's banks. Pretty, small, white alium-like flowers, but you should have smelt it! You'd have loved it! ; )

[CheekyChops]

Its a good job you aren't sitting by me this morning!

[Figi]

It is a well-known fact that if you have eaten garlic yourself, you can't smell it on the breath of others. So the answer's simple - just start eating it for all its amazing health-giving properties and learn to enjoy. By the way, I use garlic all the time but I bet you wouldn't even notice its subtle use in many dishes. The best flavouring on the planet!

[shivvy]

Figi - it might be subtle in the dish but do you not notice people covering their nose when you are near them?!

[alijangra]

It is super, super good for you. You shouldnt try to discourage people from eating it because it has many health benefits.

[Figi]

No Shivvy - no-one has ever covered their nose when I go near - probably because they all sensibly eat garlic too.

[BBWCHATT]

Garlic lover here :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic

A BBC news story reported that Allium sativum may have beneficial properties, such as preventing and fighting the common cold.

Allium sativum has been found to reduce platelet aggregation and hyperlipidaemia.

Garlic is also alleged to help regulate blood sugar levels. Regular and prolonged use of therapeutic amounts of aged garlic extracts lower blood homocysteine levels, and has shown to prevent some complications of diabetes mellitus. People taking insulin should not consume medicinal amounts of garlic without consulting a physician. In such applications, garlic must be fresh and uncooked, or the allicin will be lost.

Allium sativum may also possess cancer-fighting properties due to the presence of diallyl sulphide (DADs), believed to be an anticarcinogen.

Decocted garlic extracts that are left to set overnight are very effective in healing wounds. In 1858, Louis Pasteur observed garlic's antibacterial activity, and it was used as an antiseptic to prevent gangrene during World War I and World War II.

In modern naturopathy, garlic is used as a treatment for intestinal worms and other intestinal parasites, both orally and as an anal suppository. Garlic cloves are used as a remedy for infections (especially chest problems), digestive disorders, and fungal infections such as thrush. Whole cloves used as vaginal suppositories are sometimes used as a home remedy for Candidiasis (yeast infections).

Garlic supplementation in rats along with a high protein diet has been shown to boost testosterone levels.

[Gef]

Oh shivvy I feel sorry for you as you must be missing out on lots of tasty food - Indian, Oriental. French, Italian, Mexican etc etc.

[vivandorron]

I,m on the side of the majority in this one. Garlic forever I say. The more you eat the less it hangs on the breath.

[shivvy]

"The more you eat the less it hangs on the breath"!!!
I just can't agree with that!
These are the facts as I see them
1) Some people eat garlic,
2) because they eat it, they don't smell it,
3) because they don't smell it, they think they do not smell of it.
WRONG!!! We smell it good and proper!

PS - I know garlic is good for you and has lots of health-giving properties. I am not disagreeing with that at all. It is the stench that I find sooo revolting.

[tiger104]

I like it in subtle dishes, my parner says he hates it, but he eats it all the time in my dishes....not because i add garlic but because most sauces contain it, i do find it a bit annoying that you can't get any 'garlic bread' style bread stuff without the garlic.....

[vivandorron]

I can visualise us Garlic lovers becoming social outcasts. I am one already as a smoker.

Nevertheless shivvy, I applaud you for sticking to your guns..........Best wishes......R. (reeky Ron maybe.)

[WendyS]

Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but we eat lots of it and often put a handful of cloves under our Sunday lamb joint when we roast it.
Even when I haven't eaten any I'm not necessarily conscious of smelling it on the breath of those who HAVE eaten it and it is supposed to have so many health giving properties that it would be a shame not to take advantage of them.
Have you ever tried putting the whole cloves in a sauce or stew, rather than chopping them up? The flavour isn't so pronounced then but you still get the health benefits.

[etlcnes]

Apparently if you eat it regularly your body gets used to it and you no longer smell of it. Least that is what they said on the telly and of course I believe everything I see on the telly.

By the way i love the stuff