On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:19:45 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) wrote:

> Ala > wrote:
>
> >I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.
>
> Well, I was at a store and they had large boxes saying "California
> Garlic" filled with garlic so I bought some. Of course, it
> could be a sham. I'm a sucker.
>
If I ever saw anything like that, it would probably be priced twice as
much as the "other" garlic. Was it priced reasonably?

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Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

Serene wrote:

>> Except for a few years ago I saw elephant garlic which had to be the
>> dullest garlic I've ever tasted
>
> Oh, I love the stuff. It makes a wonderful roasted-garlic spread.

Did you know that elephant garlic is a completely different genus from true
garlic? It's actually a kind of leek.

Bob

Christine wrote about garlic:

> If it is the current season, and fairly new garlic, it won't be as
> strong. If it is strong, then chances are that it is older.... Also
> depends on what kind of garlic it is.. Different types have different
> strengths. There are some that are noticeably stronger than others,
> no matter what, depending on their type.

The garlic I get at the farmers' market is obviously fresh (you can tell by
its moisture content), but it's *very* strongly flavored, several orders of
magnitude stronger than supermarket garlic.

Bob

On 8/11/2010 12:23 AM, Peterl. wrote:
> > wrote in news:micheinnz-3D6C5A.15582311082010
> @news.itconsult.net:
>
>
>>>
>>> I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.
>>
>> The good ones here do.
>>
>> Miche
>>
>
>
> All our supermarkets do, as well. I think it's now 'law' that they have to
> show the provenace of the produce they sell.

Good for you. Here sometimes you can't even tell what the damned thing
_is_ let alone the provenance. Always annoys me to see a bin of some
strange looking exotic vegetable with not a sign in sight.

"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
...
> Serene wrote:
>
>>> Except for a few years ago I saw elephant garlic which had to be the
>>> dullest garlic I've ever tasted
>>
>> Oh, I love the stuff. It makes a wonderful roasted-garlic spread.
>
> Did you know that elephant garlic is a completely different genus from
> true garlic? It's actually a kind of leek.
>
> Bob
>
>

well that makes sense now. It does taste more mild, much like a leek

"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
...
> Ala > wrote:
>
>>I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.
>
> Well, I was at a store and they had large boxes saying "California
> Garlic" filled with garlic so I bought some. Of course, it
> could be a sham. I'm a sucker.
>


So, one has to wonder if garlic is the missing link
http://www.world-science.net/otherne..._flowerfrm.htm
Shedding light on the origin of flowers

May 17, 2006


Flowers are almost everywhere, but the origins of flowering plants are far
from clear: Charles Darwin called the problem an "abominable mystery."

A study of a plant seen as a "living fossil" now suggests flowers arose
during a time of intense evolutionary experimentation, a researcher says.

The plant, found in the rain forests of New Caledonia in the South Pacific,
has a unique way of forming eggs, said William "Ned" Friedman of the
University of Colorado at Boulder, who conducted the study.

This quirk, he added, suggests the plant may be a missing link between the
remarkably diverse flowering plants and their yet-to-be-identified extinct
ancestors

I always thought it was a shall-onion. You're probably right.

I know that, when my store doesn't post the origin, it's chinese. Weak-arse CRAP!!

sf > wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:19:45 +0000 (UTC),

>> Well, I was at a store and they had large boxes saying "California
>> Garlic" filled with garlic so I bought some. Of course, it
>> could be a sham. I'm a sucker.

>If I ever saw anything like that, it would probably be priced twice as
>much as the "other" garlic. Was it priced reasonably?

Yep. This was at Petaluma Market.

Steve

"J. Clarke" > wrote in news:i3u3l30ik5
@news5.newsguy.com:

> On 8/11/2010 12:23 AM, Peterl. wrote:
>> > wrote in news:micheinnz-
3D6C5A.15582311082010
>> @news.itconsult.net:
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.
>>>
>>> The good ones here do.
>>>
>>> Miche
>>>
>>
>>
>> All our supermarkets do, as well. I think it's now 'law' that they have
to
>> show the provenace of the produce they sell.
>
> Good for you. Here sometimes you can't even tell what the damned thing
> _is_ let alone the provenance. Always annoys me to see a bin of some
> strange looking exotic vegetable with not a sign in sight.
>
>
>


LOL!! 'Lucky dip'.


There was/has been a big hoohay here for quite some time about 'truth in
labeling'..... and this was part of it.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

Fact of Life:

After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says... W T F ?

On Aug 10, 9:23*pm, "Peterl." >
wrote:
> Miche > wrote in news:micheinnz-3D6C5A.15582311082010
> @news.itconsult.net:
>
>
>
> >> I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.
>
> > The good ones here do.
>
> > Miche
>
> All our supermarkets do, as well. I think it's now 'law' that they have to
> show the provenace of the produce they sell.
>

I first noticed this practice 30-some years ago, at The Food Terminal
in Toronto. (Knob Hill Farms). I was struck that absence of a
subtropical climate zone let Canadians source citrus, etc. from a
large number of companies, without fear of importing exotic pests.

In article
>,
spamtrap1888 > wrote:

> On Aug 10, 9:23*pm, "Peterl." >
> wrote:
> > Miche > wrote in news:micheinnz-3D6C5A.15582311082010
> > @news.itconsult.net:
> >
> >
> >
> > >> I;ve never seen any store distinguish the source.
> >
> > > The good ones here do.
> >
> > > Miche
> >
> > All our supermarkets do, as well. I think it's now 'law' that they have to
> > show the provenace of the produce they sell.
> >
>
> I first noticed this practice 30-some years ago, at The Food Terminal
> in Toronto. (Knob Hill Farms). I was struck that absence of a
> subtropical climate zone let Canadians source citrus, etc. from a
> large number of companies, without fear of importing exotic pests.

Oh, they care, trust me. They care. That fruit will have been
inspected and fumigated at the border to protect against exotic nasties.

Miche

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