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I'll actually cut up garlic very fine and put some on my garden salad...it's great stuff! I wish they had garlic flavoured chewing gum.
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Quote:Dog Soldiers is my fav Werewolf movie!!!!!!!!!
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Quote:I'll actually cut up garlic very fine and put some on my garden salad...it's great stuff! I wish they had garlic flavoured chewing gum.
Have you ever been to The Stinking Rose restaurant? I've only read about it but don't think they do chewing gum for you sadly!
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Fronconstine! :evil:
not FRANKENSTEIN! :twisted:
BTW: I love the tomato salad with olive oil and raw garlic. Or fried, with baby eels (not real ones, I cannot pay 300$/Kg, and the ersatz tastes identical)
BTW: I eat babies :twisted: When they grow the eels are not so cuties :roll:
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Mosquitos don't like biting people who eat a lot of garlic, or who smell of it. I wonder if this was a reason the soldiers rubbed the oil on their skin. Although the ancients thought malaria was caught from stagnant air back then, they would have still tried to avoid being bitten all over by mozzies.
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Could find no substantiation of the above claims, but have found several sources indicating garlic was know to have antiseptic qualities unsurpassed until the discovery of penicillin. The following links takes you to such discussions, which includes lots of ancient garlic lore, too.
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/sorec/ ... garlic.htm
http://www.allicinshop.com/garlic.htm
http://www.stevenfoster.com/education/m ... arlic.html
Happy eating. :roll:
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I know a modern day soldier who swears by eating garlic to keep the mozzies away when he's in hot climates. Unfortunately, he keeps everyone and everything away from him too. :wink:
Garlic as a mosquito repellant
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Which may indicate that mosquitoes are not quite the mindless biting things we think. :lol:
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Maybe some people are just more succulent than others
Funnily enough, I never get bitten either, but I probably just taste way too bitter :twisted:
They haven't actually proved scientifically that garlic acts as a repellant as such - or even citronella, which is a common ingredient in sprays. They think they may work as 'cloaking' agents instead which mask human and animal chemicals, thus blocking the mozzies receptors- so it's potential meal becomes invisible. I think there is still research underway.
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