Garlic breath cures, anybody?

[chirpychirpy]

what have you found to be the best cures for Garlic breath? someone once suggested marmalade eaten off the back of a spoon, but i think that was an old wives tale...

[ummmm]

Parsley apparently works. Raw parsley.

[Kim A]

It's not the breath in your mouth as such that you need to deal with, more the smell coming up the foodpipe from your stomach, where the garlicky foodstuff is lurking. A good tip is to take a glass of warm water, add a few drops of peppermint essence, stir and drink. The peppermint goes down into your stomach and neutralizes the smell of the garlic. Works for me...

[monty0703]

Would eating mints have the same effect on the stomach?

[McMouse]

Nothing wrong with big G on your breath.

[Kim A]

Yes, but I've found it more effective to drink something pepperminty, rather than eat something like a sweet, just because the liquidity means that it can actually get into and all around the offending curry/pasta/whatever. A sweetie, however well chewed, is only going to sit in bits on the top of whatever's lurking down there. That's my theory, anyway...

[Greedyfly]

Apparantly you do not get garlic breath if you remove the stork of the garlic, never tried this though. Not much use if you are eating out etc...

[ummmm]

What stork on garlic?

[merciasounds]

The central bit in the middle where the oil is concentrated. Here will tell you all you want to know about the stuff!!

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

[ummmm]

But you don't eat that bit?

[Greedyfly]

By stork I mean the central part of the garlic, its tiny but apparantly is what holds the garlic smell?!

[LoftyLottie]

I have a jar of smoked pickled garlic from Spain. It is just so moorish and apparently the smoking and pickling means you don't get garlic breath. Not that Im that bothered about it, because Mr LL and I both eat loads of garlic and blow the garlic breath. I don't work now so I can indulge myself knowing I am not sat in an office with loads of colleagues, and the dog doesn't complain.

[joko]

there is a thing to remove the smell of onion and garlic from hands...its is basically a lump of metal shaped like a bar of soap and basically you use it like one...

i wonder if that is where the maramalde/spoon things comes from...?
ie, licking the metal, has the same effect on your tongue as the metal soap block...?