The scene: Lawndale, California. It’s no Sunnydale, but it’s just north of Torrance, where much of Buffy was filmed.
The issue: garlic was planted along medians in Lawndale during a multi-million dollar beautification project years ago.
The problem: garlic stinks. A lot.
Solution: take out the garlic! But it’ll cost ya – $35,000.
But councilman Jim Ramsey thinks that’s a foolish waste of money. Besides, he says, since they’ve planted the garlic, he hasn’t seen a single vampire in town. If we take it out, he warns, the vampires could start showing up.
Well, vampires don’t like to be mocked. So at noon today, the vampires are planning to march on Lawndale. Lunch to follow.
It’ll be a bit smokey, but if Spike can run from the car to the front door underneath a blanket, they should be able to last about 2 minutes if they’re careful.
That just not true. Garlic smells wonderful, especially sauteed with mushrooms and onions in a nice olive oil and then tossed with pasta and sun-dried tomatoes.
Having driven through Gilroy, CA a few times, I find it difficult to understand how anyone could find the overwhelming smell of garlic to be offensive. Freaks.
Living just about 15 miles from Lawndale, I wish I’d seen this thread sooner. THAT would have been a good time to pull up a chair for.
On a non-vampire topic, that plant is called social garlic and it is planted everywhere in Southern California. It certainly does have a unique stink. I’m not sure why it’s such a popular plant.
I lived in Lawndale for nineteen years (next to the KFC at Artesia and Inglewood) and suffered with the Astroturf landscaping in the median of Hawthorne Boulevard for years. It’s actually becoming a nice area since the planting of pine trees and real shrubs and flowers in place of the Astroshit. Now GARLIC!!! Awwww right, Lawndale!
