Does garlic really turn off Northern Europeans?
What?!?!
No, I believe that to be completely wrong.
Evidently, the guy claiming this has not visited a small Swedish grocery store. Garlic bread, fresh garlic, minced garlic, garlic butter, garlic sauce. At one point, in Stockholm, there was even a restaurant called “Vitlök” - garlic in Swedish - that had garlic of some sort on every dish - down to garlic icecream.
Not to mention garlic in all those continental sausages…
i think my flatmate and i have used 2 cloves of garlic in every single dinner we’ve cooked since october…
so that’s a no then.
Well, at the local pizza restaurant the extra garlic bowl is always nearly empty…
My Swedish girlfriend put a whole cloves of garlic on the BBQ last summer and ate it.
There was no kissing for the rest of that evening.
amanset, why the heck didn’t you just eat some too??
I spent a weekend at a primitive cabin with a bunch of Norskies who had a tradition of making a big pot of spaghetti on cabin trips. The guy who always made the sauce had a rule: one bulb of garlic for each person, plus one for the pot. Notice I said bulb, not clove. That was served on Friday night. By the end of the weekend, the smell in the outhouse was… memorable :eek:
Some Scandihoovians certainly shy away from garlic, but not all, ohhhhhhh no.
I put garlic into everything I eat, so do most people I know so I wouldn’t agree with the above article.
I’m British, which apparently means I hate food with actual taste.
In the past there was a lot of resistance to garlic in the UK, but not any more - our national dish is garlic-laden curry, we eat Italian(ish) pasta with garlic-laced sauces.