"Miche" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
>> Prices of garlic in China are skyrocketing.
>>
>> http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../02/2003479382
>>
>> I remember when Chinese garlic first hit the market here.
>> For $0.99 you could buy something like a stock with
>> several perfect heads of garlic in it. I imagine that
>> must have been devastating to U.S. producers. Now,
>> we may face a situation like the Mexican corn farmers.
>> NAFTA made it possible for cheap U.S. corn to put the
>> Mexican corn farmers out of business, then ethanol sent
>> corn prices through the roof.
>
> Chinese garlic is cheap here but I never buy it. Looks great but
> doesn't taste like anything. NZ garlic will rip your tongue off and
> then slap you round the head with it. Now we're talking.
>


I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.

Except for a few years ago I saw elephant garlic which had to be the dullest
garlic I've ever tasted