On Mar 18, 9:01*pm, "Michael Kuettner" >
wrote:
> "ViLco" *wrote in ...
> > 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 ?
>

Do Italian garlic growers cut off all rootlets? Because that is one
characteristic of Chinese-grown garlic.