Michael Kuettner wrote:
> "ViLco" wrote in message ...
>
>> Pollution and water: if you give polluted water to your vegetables
>> you'll sell polluted vegetable. When it happens in Europe the incident
>> gets handled a-la European, when it happens in China it gets haldled
>> a-la-Chinese, and since the list of higiene and QC issues in China is
>> so long I tend to think they would just hang a couple of persons to a
>> tree and let things going on as they are.
>> That's why I do my best to keep far from anything chinese
>
> Good luck with that. About half of the "Italian" garlic is from China;
> smuggled in and re-labelled.
> Btw, shouldn't the be Spaghetti aglio e olio e peperoncino ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Kuettner
>
Here, anyway, it is easy to recognize garlic from China: its base
is totally smooth, with not even a vestige of roots. I guess that
isn't smuggled though.

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Jean B.